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Gloucester on the wind : America's greatest fishing port in the days of sail / Joseph E. Garland.

Title
Gloucester on the wind : America's greatest fishing port in the days of sail / Joseph E. Garland.
Author
Garland, Joseph E.
Publication
Dover, N.H. : Arcadia, 1995.

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TextUse in library F74.G5 G323 1995Off-site

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Description
158, [2] pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. Originally founded by a fishing company from Dorchester, England, in 1623, Gloucester has always been linked to fishing and the sea. By 1870 Gloucester was the leading fishing port in the Western Hemisphere, and its great fleet of fast, white-winged schooners ranged deep into the heart of the Atlantic in search of cod, haddock, halibut, and mackerel. These stunningly beautiful ships and the hardy men who sailed them made “Gloucester” an evocation of courage, perseverance, and seamanship unique in America’s maritime heritage.--
Series Statement
Images of America
Uniform Title
Images of America.
Subject
  • Fishing ports > Gloucester > Pictorial works
  • Fishing ports
  • Gloucester (Mass.) > Pictorial works
  • Massachusetts > Gloucester
Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 160).
ISBN
  • 0752400797
  • 9780752400792
LCCN
96102348
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library