A Day's Work, Part 2

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 Maine papermaking?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.

Summary

These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal for anyone interested in Maine's past.

Product details

• Authors: W H Bunting, W. H. Bunting, William H. Bunting
• Assisted by: W. H. Bunting (Editor)
• Publisher: Tilbury House,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780884482079
• ISBN: 978-0-88448-207-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 258 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 1184 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Fotografie, Orte und Menschen: Sachbuch, Bildbände, Reiseführer, USA Nordosten, Neuengland Staaten, History - U.S., PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials), HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, TRAVEL / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)