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The last voyage of the whaling bark Progress : New Bedford, Chicago and the twilight of an industry / Daniel Gifford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476640075
Other title:
  • New Bedford, Chicago and the twilight of an industry
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • VM465 .L378 2020
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Contents:
New Bedford, 1851 -- Somewhere in the South Atlantic, 1858 -- New Bedford, 1865 -- The Arctic, 1871 -- New Bedford, 1880 -- Chicago, 1892 -- Lake Ontario, 1892 -- Chicago, 1892 -- New Bedford, 1904.
Subject: "The whaling bark Progress was an authentic whaler transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece."
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Includes bibliographies and index.

New Bedford-June 8, 1892 -- New Bedford, 1851 -- Somewhere in the South Atlantic, 1858 -- New Bedford, 1865 -- The Arctic, 1871 -- New Bedford, 1880 -- Chicago, 1892 -- Lake Ontario, 1892 -- Chicago, 1892 -- New Bedford, 1904.

"The whaling bark Progress was an authentic whaler transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece."

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