A Day's Work, Part 2 A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920

by Bunting, W H.

• ISBN13: 9780884482079
• ISBN10: 0884482073
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers

Summary

These extraordinary collections of photograhs 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 paper-making?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.