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The last voyage of the whaling bark Progress : New Bedford, Chicago and the twilight of an industry /

"The whaling bark Progress was an authentic whaler 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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gifford, Daniel, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020.
Subjects:
Progress (Bark) > History.
World's Columbian Exposition > (1893 : > Chicago, Ill.)
World's Columbian Exposition.
Whaling > Massachusetts > New England > History > 19th century.
Whaling ships > Massachusetts > New Bedford > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions.
Whaling.
Whaling ships.
Illinois > Chicago.
Massachusetts > New Bedford.
1800-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • New Bedford-June 8, 1892
  • New Bedford, 1851
  • Somewhere in the South Atlantic, 1858
  • New Bedford, 1865
  • The Arctic, 1871
  • New Bedford, 1880
  • Chicago, 1892
  • Lake Ontario, 1892
  • Chicago, 1892
  • New Bedford, 1904.