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The most extraordinary collection of photos of any small town in the entire United States. Block Island, in the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of New England, has a photographic history of 145 years. No other community could produce such an array of images from both land and sea. Volume 2 of The Block Island History of Photography adds more than 400 images to America’s history, from shipwrecks and lighthouses, steamboats and tourists, World Wars 1 & 2, Prohibition era fun, into hard times, through two strong hurricanes, and yet more fun. The earlier Volume 1, from 1870 to the 1910s, contains another 380 images. This is the face of quiet America most people missed — and most, once lived, would miss.
Block Island, in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of New England, is further from other land -- from the mainland or other islands -- than any other town along the 1,800 mile eastern coast of the United States. Isolated from neighbors, with no harbor until the late 19th century, Block Island evolved differently. Each chapter of Block Island, The Sea stands alone, providing one or more stories, and the scholarly research to go with it, about this little town -- currently with 850 year-round inhabitants whose singular preference is to be completely surrounded by salt water. Subjects include fishing, piracy, lighthouses, hurricane. shipwrecks and more. Fully indexed, and with over 200 images.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.