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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress: New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry

The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress: New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry

Gifford, Daniel

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Literary CriticismTechnology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1476682151
ISBN13: 9781476682150
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 9 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship 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 the 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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