Roll up, roll up! Entertainments in the Prater

Eduard Gurk: Volksprater, swings, hand-coloured engraving

 

Verlag M. R. Toma: ‘Prater Scenes’, lithograph, coloured, fol. 12: Punch and Judy show, stiltwalker, ballad singer

 

Hieronymus Löschenkohl: Unsuccessful balloon ascent on 9 March 1791, 1791

 

‘Arrival of H. Blanchard from his 38th aerial voyage at the town of Gross Enzersdorf near Vienna, 6 July 1791’

 

The Prater Vivarium, later a biological research institution, destroyed in 1945, c. 1880

 

Verlag Eduard Hölzel: World Exhibition Palace

 

C. Ledermann: Prater; on the left are the Lustspieltheater, Prohaska’s restaurant and the water chute; to the right of the Giant Ferris Wheel is the Eisvogel restaurant, 1899, photograph

 

‘Venice in Vienna’, canal with gondolas for hire, c. 1895

 

Wilhelm Gause: Bazaar in the ‘Ashanti’ village, 1897, gouache on board

 

‘Part of the Prater’, ‘Emerich Kern’s Vergnügungs-Etablissement’ (a cinema and carousel), the Stiller cinema and the Giant Ferris Wheel, c. 1910, postcard

 

J. Ziegler: Fireworks arena in the Prater, coloured engraving