Author: Robert GrievePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
New Bedford Semi-centennial Souvenir, Containing a Review of the History of the City, Together with Accounts of the Whale Fishery, the Early Industries, the Great Growth in the Cotton Manufacture and the Social and Economic Changes
Author: Robert GrievePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
New Bedford Mansions:
Author: Peggi MedeirosPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626197911
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The early nineteenth century in New Bedford was a time of unimaginable wealth, intellectual ferment and artistic treasures. Prosperous whaling magnates like members of the Rotch, Morgan and Howland families commissioned the nation's finest architects to design and construct their majestic mansions. The city's architectural and cultural expansion brought great writers and artists like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson into the homes of County Street's elite. Yet behind the elegant fa�ade of grand parties and notable house guests were the secrets and scandals of New Bedford's upper crust. Join author Peggi Medeiros as she chronicles the history of each mansion and the stories once hidden behind closed doors.
New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir
Author: Robert GrievePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333250690
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Excerpt from New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir: Containing a Review of the History of the City; Together With Accounts of the Whale Fishery, the Early Industries, the Great Growth in the Cotton Manufacture and the Social and Economic Changes New Bedford, with an average of a whaleship arriving every day in the year, was a busy seaport, whose life and character can hardly be realized to-day unless aided by an imagination instructed by the recitals of some of the old sailors or residents of that period. During the War of the Rebellion, the whaling interest suffered severely. The Alabama burned many whaling vessels in 1862, near the Azores, and other rebel cruisers added to the destruction at other times and places. The Shenandoah, in June, 1865, captured in Behring Straits 27 whaling vessels, burn ing 24 of them, and of these 17 belonged in New Bedford. The loss to New Bedford was about a million and a half of dollars. A great disaster over took the whaling eet September, 1871, when in a single day 33 ships were abandoned in the Arctic Ocean, hopelessly crushed or environed in the ice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Patina of Place
Author: Kingston Wm HeathPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331389
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the booming textile industry turned many New England towns and villages into industrialized urban centers. This rapid urbanization transformed not only the economic base but the regional identity of communities such as New Bedford as new housing forms emerged to accommodate the largely immigrant workforce of the mills.
New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir
Author: Robert GrievePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337324186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir - Containing a review of the history of the city, together with accounts of the whale fishery, the early industries, the great growth in the cotton manufacture and the social and economic changes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
New Bedford, a Pictorial History
Author: Judith A. BossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress
Author: Daniel GiffordPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
Souvenir of the Bi-centennial of the Dartmouth Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends
Author: Society of Friends. Dartmouth Monthly MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Check List of New Bedford Imprints from 1866 to 1876
Author: Manufacturing Catastrophe
Author: Shaun S. NicholsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197665314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Manufacturing Catastrophe tracks the history of industrialization, deindustrialization, and globalization in Massachusetts over the past two centuries. It a history of wrenching economic transformation as told from the perspective of everyday people: European peasants traveling the oceans in search of industrial work, runaway factory owners venturing out in search of cheaper labor abroad, and harried local policymakers trying to recover from repeated bouts of economic cataclysm. For those concerned about the future of American industry in the face of global competition, it provides critical lessons on how some of America's pioneering industrial cities have weathered the tempests of economic upheaval and industrial rebirth.