contact us | site guide | search  •  Reading Guide » Link RESOURCE MENU Reading Guide » Link Link Page 2.  Coney Island - Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Rube and Mandy at Coney Island, film, 1903 - Frederic Thompson, "Amusing the Million," Everybody's Magazine, September 1908 (PDF)     Luna Park, Coney Island, 1905    Printing Length: 9 pages ("Amusing the Million") View Rube and Mandy at Coney Island online. Online Sources  Rube and Mandy at Coney Island: Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, in American Memory, Library of Congress "Amusing the Million": National Humanities Center Supplemental sites Luna Park, 1907-1946, from Amusement Park History, by Adam Sandy from Coney Island (American Experience/PBS)    --Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy    --Luna Park Opens    --Luna Park Closes Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Picture and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, from American Memory, Library of Congress America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 - 1915, from American Memory, Library of Congress The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912: General Web Resources *PDF file - You will need software on your computer that allows you to read and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, you may download it FREE from Adobe's Web site. Toolbox: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912 Memory | Progress | People | Power | Empire Contact Us | Site Guide | Search Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature National Humanities Center Web site comments and questions, contact: nhc_ed@nationalhumanitiescenter.org Copyright © 2005 National Humanities Center. All rights reserved. Revised: May 2005 nationalhumanitiescenter.org