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Parlor ponds [electronic resource] : the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / Judith Hamera.

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	ix, 268 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	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.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780472071661 (cloth alk. paper)
	9780472051663 (paper alk. paper)
	9780472028108 (e-book)
OCLC #	EBC3415036

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