Picture No | 10054539 |
Date | 1886 |
Description | Rotary boat at Woodward's Garden, San Francisco 1886 |
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Woodward's Garden, San Francisco, California, was a combination amusement park, museum, art gallery, zoo and aquarium operating from 1866 to 1891. Carrying about a hundred seated men women and children enjoying a leisurely merry-go-round ride, moving by the aid of oars and three sails round the centre pivot, to which it is attached by six wire ropes.
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Source | Engraving in 'The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper', 20 November 1886, page 597 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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