The Marine Room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (Classic Reprint)

The Marine Room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Robinson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-12-27
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780484918237

Excerpt from The Marine Room of the Peabody Museum of Salem The site chosen for Salem in 1626 decided its maritime character; the fishing industry and the building of vessels began almost with the settlement. Before 1650 Salem vessels were trading in Virginia, the Bermudas, the West Indies and in England. Josselyn in 1664 says that in Salem are some very rich merchants. The vessels before 1700 were of forty tons displacement or less, although one ship is recorded of 200 tons. 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.

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley
Author: Donna Cassidy
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781584654469

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.

Introduction

Introduction
Author: Louis Frank Middlebrook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1925
Genre: Connecticut
ISBN:

The Surface of Things

The Surface of Things
Author: Prita Meier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0691260966

The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa The ports of the Swahili coast—Zanzibar and Mombasa among them—have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly Muslim coastal communities cultivated and transformed the medium. The Surface of Things examines the complex maritime dynamics that shaped the photography of coastal Africa, exploring the pleasure and power of beautiful things and the ways people and their pictures transcended the boundaries of the colonial world. Immersing readers in the globally interconnected networks of eastern Africa’s port cities, Prita Meier demonstrates how photographs are not static images but mobile objects with remarkable shape-shifting qualities. Beginning with the earliest photographs introduced through seaborne commerce, the medium’s integration into the cultural landscape was swift. Photographs functioned as objects of decoration, good taste, and cosmopolitanism, but were also used by local elites and foreigners to coerce and objectify enslaved people. Meier uncovers the oppressive agenda behind postcards and other popular images while describing African strategies of subversion and rebellion, revealing the performative authority that individuals exerted over their photographic likenesses. Featuring more than two hundred images published here for the first time, The Surface of Things repositions the continent’s islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories and shows how the people of the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as a force of both oppression and freedom.

The sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907

The sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907
Author: John Robinson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 3954274302

This book was originally published in 1922 by the Marine Research Society and provides a detailed and interesting overview about almost all sailing ships in New England of the time.