[PDF] The Last Voyage Of The Whaling Bark Progress eBook

Author : Daniel Gifford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1476640076

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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.

Author : Jamie L. Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1469674831

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Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.

Author : Progress (Bark)
Publisher :
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Arctic Ocean
ISBN :

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Log, kept by Frederick A. Barker, relating to a whaling voyage to the South Pacific and Arctic oceans and Chukchi seas. Includes descriptions of types of whales seen or taken (blackfish, blue, bowhead, finback, humpback, killer, and right), indigenous people, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, and shipwrecks; and inventories of whale oil and bone and poems. Other places represented include Guadalupe Island.

Author : David Moore Lindsay
Publisher : Boston : D. Estes
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN :

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Narrative of voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1884.