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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884481891 ISBN 13: 9780884481898

Publisher: Tilbury House Pub, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"His talent is to let his passion for local history wander where his interests and discoveries lead him and to convey to his readers his sheer joy in what he uncovers."

One has only to open it up to see its quality and scope.

Dozens of compelling photographs of Maine men and women at work, with Bunting's cogent explanatory essays.

About the Author

W. H. "BILL" Bunting is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920 (in two volumes); The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees; and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. With Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25,000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tilbury House Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884481891
• ISBN 13: 9780884481898
• Binding: Paperback