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| {{Infobox attraction
| | #REDIRECT [[The Great Hereafter]] |
| | name = Creation or The Great Hereafter
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| | othernames = The Hereafter
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| | type = Exhibition
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| | section = Unknown
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| | opened = 1906
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| | closed = Unknown
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| There was a new "amusement device" called "[[Creation or The Great Hereafter]]"<ref name="zoo">"Opening of Zoo." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 7 May 1905. Pg. 6.</ref> that opened at Olentangy Park in 1906.<ref>"Olentangy Park Opens on April 29." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' 15 April 1906. Pg. 7.</ref><ref name="zoo2">"The Columbus Zoo." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 21 May 1905. Pg. 7.</ref>
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| The production opened at the nearby Columbus Zoological Garden in 1905 and was described as having "many novel features in illusion, magic, and black art."<ref name="zoo" /> It was described as being similar to the one produced at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and had "great scenic and mechanical effects and [carried] a company of 50 people."<ref name="zoo2" />
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| Similarly named attractions at Atheltic Park<ref>Stanton, Jeffrey. "Athletic Park, Luna Park, Carnival Court Park - Buffalo N.Y. 1904 - 1918." ''National Amusement Park Historical Association.'' Accessed 29 July 2022. http://lostamusementparks.napha.org/Articles/NewYork/CarnivalCourtPark-BuffaloNY.html</ref> depicted Heaven and Hell and at Dreamland was an electric opera that showed the destruction of the world by fire and "the Biblical epic, using a chorus of 200 singers, showed the Damnation of Faust and the Salvation of Marguerite in detail."<ref>Stanton, Jeffrey. "Coney Island - Dreamland." ''Westland Network.'' Revised 6 April 1998. Accessed 29 July 2022.</ref>
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Attractions]]
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| [[Category:Exhibitions]]
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| [[Category:Added in 1906]]
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