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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.

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• Full title: Day's Work, Part 2
• Subtitle: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920
• Author: William H. Bunting, W. H. Bunting, W. H. Bunting
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780884482079
• ISBN: 0884482073
• ID: 11568514
• Publisher: Tilbury House,U.S.
• Weight: 1134 g
• Dimensions: 258 × 216 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: July 2000

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