A Day's Work by W. H. Bunting
Full Title: A Day’s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920
Annotated and Compiled by W. H. Bunting
Publisher: Tilburg House, Publishers and Maine Preservation, 1997
ISBN: 0-88448-189-1
Page Count: 380
Regional Americana suffers from a high level of parochialism. Rare is the volume by an author that can credibly interest a wider audience. Bunting has that gift. He has a talented eye for the revealing photo. More importantly, he is a vivid descriptor of what we are seeing, and an enthusiast of the endurance and craftmanship and plain old human weirdness that life throws up.
Self-description from the book cover: 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.
Condition: Very good in all aspects.
Full Title: A Day’s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920
Annotated and Compiled by W. H. Bunting
Publisher: Tilburg House, Publishers and Maine Preservation, 1997
ISBN: 0-88448-189-1
Page Count: 380
Regional Americana suffers from a high level of parochialism. Rare is the volume by an author that can credibly interest a wider audience. Bunting has that gift. He has a talented eye for the revealing photo. More importantly, he is a vivid descriptor of what we are seeing, and an enthusiast of the endurance and craftmanship and plain old human weirdness that life throws up.
Self-description from the book cover: 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.
Condition: Very good in all aspects.
Full Title: A Day’s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920
Annotated and Compiled by W. H. Bunting
Publisher: Tilburg House, Publishers and Maine Preservation, 1997
ISBN: 0-88448-189-1
Page Count: 380
Regional Americana suffers from a high level of parochialism. Rare is the volume by an author that can credibly interest a wider audience. Bunting has that gift. He has a talented eye for the revealing photo. More importantly, he is a vivid descriptor of what we are seeing, and an enthusiast of the endurance and craftmanship and plain old human weirdness that life throws up.
Self-description from the book cover: 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.
Condition: Very good in all aspects.