Spinner Publications, New Bedford, MA 176 pp., illus., bibliography, index, Order direct from the author and receive a personalized inscription and signature. Email me for details.
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A Window Back was created by photo curator Nicholas Whitman from over 20,000 photographs held by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in New Bedford. The photos are of people, ships, boats, yachts, buildings, activities, waterfront scenes, city streets, textile mills, and the surrounding countryside. There are also photographs taken at sea, as well as views of the Arctic, the tropics, and other such distant reaches once known to New Bedford's thousands of whalers. Photos date from 1845 to the 1920s. It would appear the New Bedford was home to an unusually large number of skilled photographers.