The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress

New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry

Daniel Gifford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

161 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8215-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The whaling bark Progress was an authentic whaler transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. This book uses the story of Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America.

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.

Daniel Gifford, Ph.D.’s career spans academia and public history, including George Mason University, George Washington University, and the Smithsonian Institution. A scholar of American popular culture and museums studies, he currently teaches at several universities near his home in Louisville, Kentucky.

Preface
Introduction: The Rivals of Riverdale
Section I: Overview: The 1940s
1. Here She Comes in Miss America Comics: Patsy Walker
2. Patsy Walker's Groundbreaking Title
3. Marvel Teens in the 1940s
4. Judy's Date with Success
5. Buzzy, Binky and Scribbly in the 1940s
6. Candy's Antics
7. Hap Hazard and the Ace Gang
8. Wilbur, the Forgotten Success Story
9. Topsy-Turvy, Cookie and The Kilroys
10. Why My Date Didn't Go So Well
11. Comics Advertised "For Teen Girls"
12. Ozzie and Babs—Fawcett's Only Teen Star
13. Junior, Sunny and Corliss
14. Slick Chick Comics and the Dearfield Duo
15. Other Short Run Pre-Code Girls
16. Teena and the Strip Reprints
17. Hi-Jinx—Teen-Age Animal Funnies
Section II: The 1950s
18. Patsy Walker, Something of a Supergirl
19. DC's Teen Humor: A Favorite in the '50s
20. The Unique Wendy Parker
21. My Girl Pearl: Dumb and Dumber
22. The Joy of Meeting Miss Bliss
23. Henry Aldrich and the Dell Teens
24. Jetta, Teen-Age Sweetheart of 2052
Between pages 148 and 149 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs
25. The Mystery of Candy in the 1950s
26. The Amazing Mazie and Her Boyfriends
27. Why Ginger Deserved a Better Fate
28. The First Kathy and Company
29. Lucy, the (All Too Soon) Real Gone Gal
30. Oh, What a Brother!
31. The Most Obscure Teen Humor Comic Book
32. Junior Hopp and the Hopp Rod
33. The Short-Run Guys in the Not-So-Nifty '50s
Section III: Introduction: The 1960s and 1970s
34. John Stanley's Masterpiece: Thirteen
35. Patsy and Hedy: A Novel Approach in the 1960s
36. An Early '60s Bright Spot: Marvel's Teen-Age Tornado!
37. Judy, Dobie, Freddy and the Early '60s
38. Tippy Teen's Surprise Appearance
39. Josie, Pussycats and All
40. A Word on the Working Girls
Appendix: Teen Humor Comics Outside the Archie Universe, 1940s to 1970s
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2020
Zusatzinfo	25 photos
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	285 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4766-8215-1 / 1476682151
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8215-0 / 9781476682150
Zustand	Neuware