Two hundred and thirty-four striking photographs of the port of
Boston combine with interpretive commentary to recapture the
flavor, buoyancy, and excitement of the city's years as one of the
two or three great American ports. After the Civil War Boston
underwent a radical and successful transformation from a declining
mercantile home port to an important and competitive modern
seaport. At the same time the transition from sail to steam was
taking place. Photographic studies of deep water sail and steam
vessels, naval ships, fishing boats, catboats, tugs, schooners, and
sloops, and of the picturesque wharves--all create a kaleidoscopic
visual history of these years of change.
The volume offers, as well, some of the most distinguished early
work in photography, including the widest selection ever published
of photographs by pioneer marine photographer Nathaniel
Stebbins.
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