A Days Work: A Sampler of Historic Photographs, 1860-1920 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884481891 ISBN 13: 9780884481898

Verlag: Tilbury House Pub, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal to anyone interested in Maine's past. Spend an afternoon with either volume of A Day's Work, and you'll make discoveries that will change how you look at Maine's passing scene. Bunting has a knack for spotting the unusual in a photograph, or some minor detail that, in fact, tells a major story about the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie cootchie dancers at the state fair to deepwater ships, his page-long captions place these images in social and economic context but this is not dry history. His research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating, often quirky detail (did you know that mummy wrappings were imported from Egypt for Maine papermaking?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tilbury House Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0884481891
• ISBN 13: 9780884481898
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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