A Day's Work, Part 2: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920
These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal for anyone interested in Maine's past. 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-kootchie 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 Main…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88448-206-2
- EAN: 9780884482062
- Produktnummer: 9126246
- Verlag: Tilbury House Publ
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H27.0 cm x B22.4 cm x D2.8 cm 1'406 g
- Gewicht: 1406
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