Publisher:
Harvard Uiversity Press, Cambridge, 1971,:
BUNTING, W.H., (compiler and annotator). Portrait of a Port : Boston, 1852-1914. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard Uiversity Press, 1971. First Edition. Pp (6),vii-xviii,(2),1-519,(5). Illustrated [with 234 photographs. Square 8vo, tan cloth. "Two hundred and thirty-four striking photographs of the port of Boston combine with interpretive commentary to recapturethe flavor, buoyancy, and excitement of the city's years as one of the two or three great American ports. After the Civil War, Boston underwent a rad ical and successful transformation from a declining mercantile home por...
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