A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920, Part I. This item is unavailable.A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920, Part I

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.

"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.