Parlor ponds [electronic resource] : the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / Judith Hamera.
Material type:
- Aquariums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Aquariums -- United States -- History
- Aquariums -- United States -- Historiography
- Aquariums -- Great Britain -- Historiography
- Home -- United States -- History
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- 639.34/4 23
- SF457.3 .H36 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing -- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Toy Fish -- The Domestic Aquarium -- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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