The exhibition was extremely controversial, with many of the 13,000 people visiting mainly to gawk.
Tourists, for a fee, are able to gawk at the captives from a viewing stand.
This is sometimes expanded to mopery with intent to creep or mopery with intent to gawk.
Traffic accidents were also reported as drivers swerved to avoid slow motion blizzards of multicolored orbs or took their eyes off the road to gawk at the overhead spectacle.
Emersons growing popularity during the early to mid 19th century lead to large numbers of people stopping at his house only to gawk at him.
