merrygoround

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Strand, Lahinch, Co. Clare

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interesting comments on this later photo (see rebuilt buildings note), particularly about the Golf Links Hotel, which means we are after 1896.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia The photo you linked above was one of the first posted on this stream, the comments are from 7 years ago!! Time marches on...............
  • Carol Maddock said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons 7 years?! Well, Holy God, Miley...
  • guliolopez said:
    Perhaps doesn't help with dating, but the hillside "chapel of ease" appears to have been built after the OSI 6" survey (1829-41), and before the OSI 25" survey (1897-1913). It was clearly demolished some time since.

Child on a merry-go-round at North Florida Fair - Tallahassee

from Florida Memory

  • Lute Alumni said:
    Thank you!

Portrait of a small child on a carousel horse (0001-0051)

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The earliest types of carousels were most likely created by Arabians. The first carousels were made for adults to ride. Today carousels are made for children to ride. However, the carousel was first recognized as being a carousel in Europe. People most likely made the first carousels in the seventeenth century. However carousels were used in France, to practice a game they enjoyed playing. For this game, horsemen practiced playing a game on which they would ride wooden horses, horses that were carved out of wood. The wooden horses would be rotated by servants pulling at the rotating platform. This would be similar to the playground carousels. Or the horsemen would use real horses to rotate the platform. The carousel emerged as a ride when a toy dealer in France showed wooden horses on a rotating platform moved by human power or horsepower in the beginning of 18th century. Carousels became popular in America between 1880 and 1930. During this time, there were around 5000 carousels built. Michael Dentzel, an American who immigrated from German and lived in Philadelphia, moved the rotary platform of his carousel using steam power or horsepower in 1814. Later, the carousels found in amusement parks had platforms moved by a machine. This concept is still being used today. It was invented in 1898 in America. Railroads were the first companies in America to purchase carousels for their customers' enjoyment. The most popular of the carousel animals always has been and still is the horse. Eighty percent of animals carved for carousels in America are horses. Other animals that have been used on carousels include "Mother Goose" and "Disney" characters. The "romance" side of the carousel animals is the side that faces the audience. On the romance side the animal had extra carvings and decorations. Most of the carousels in Europe and America turn counterclockwise. In Great Britain, carousels turn clockwise. Source: kids.kiddle.co/Carousel