The Extraordinary Combination of Historic
Maine Photographs and Narrative Captions
Makes These Two Volumes True Treasures!
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A DAY'S WORK
A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs,
1860—1920, Part II
Compiled and annotated
by W. H. Bunting
Published with Maine Preservation
8 1/2 x 10
3/8, 384
pages and 225 B&W photographs in each volume
Part II Hardcover, $55
ISBN 0-88448-206-5 —
Part II Paperback, $35
ISBN 0-88448-207-3 —
Regional History/Maine
MAINE BOOKS:
America’s Kitchens —NewA Coastal Companion: A Gulf of Maine Almanac, from Canada to Cape Cod —New
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine —New
North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts —New
Partners in Wilderness: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park —New
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering—New
Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family —New
Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry —New
A1 Diner
Antiqueman's Diary
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine
Day's Work, A (Vol. I)
Day's Work, A (Vol. II)
Doryman's Day, A
Down on the Island, Up on the Main
Downeast: A Maritime History of Maine
Eminent Mainers
Fly Rod Crosby
Interrupted Forest, The
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. I
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. IV
Journalism Matters
Just One More Thing, Doc
Letters from Sea
Life Between the Tides
Little Pine to King Spruce
Maine Hamlet, A
Maine Made Guns & Their Makers
Maine's Visible Black History
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyage of Detroit, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht Design
A DAY'S WORK
A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs,
1860—1920, Part I
Compiled and annotated
by W. H. Bunting
Published with Maine Preservation
8 1/2 x 10
3/8, 384
pages and 225 B&W photographs in each volume
Part I Paperback, $35; ISBN 0-88448-189-1
Regional History/Maine
- "This is a true labor of love, carefully selected, intensively
researched, and
beautifully written. One has only to open it up to see its quality and scope."
—William David Barry, Maine Sunday Telegram
- "...dozens of compelling photographs of Maine men and
women at work, with Bunting's cogent explanatory essays."
—Yankee Magazine
- "The author treats each photograph as a time capsule, a window, and an opportunity to see what was happening.... He enjoys discovering secrets that lurk before our eyes in the corners of photographs, and interpreting them with traditional archival and oral historical research." —Rob Napier, Nautical Research Journal
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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