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

A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920, Part I by W. H. Bunting. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780884481898.

These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal to anyone interested in Maines past. Spend an afternoon with either volume of A Days Work, and youll make discoveries that will change how you look at Maines 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.