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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hing boatsfrom the settlement of America, but here, side by side, may be seenmany varieties of fishing craft, in use at the present time, of this andother countries. The rude, primitive boats of the Amazon region,the birch bark and duorout canoes of North America—all of which THE TYPICAI. DORY. are the same in form and construction as those in use when Colum-bus made his famous discovery—contrast strongly with the grace-ful, swift, and yacht-like schooners of Cape Ann, or the fishingsteamers and beautiful catboat from Rhode Island. Gloucester shows her fishing vessels, by model and photograph,from its settlement in 1623 to the latest prize-winning clippers de-signed by Edward Burgess, D. J. Lawlor and Capt. George M.McLain, the latter a Gloucester fisherman. The old Ketch, the FISHERIES. 2xy schooner of colonial times, the chebacco boat; the old time pinkeyand the square stern hooker of forty or fifty years ago, standside by side with the creations of modern skill, emphasizing the
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./ ./■ NEW ENGlvAND FISHING SCHOONER. Painting in Gloucester Exhibit. advance that has been made in this direction since the Puritanssought in the New World a faith-pure shrine and the opportunityto develop commercial fishing. What tales of hardship and shipwreck are suggested by thesemodels of fishing schooners! A few years ago, when flat, unsea 2I« FISHERIES. worthy vessels were in vogue, a gale on the banks frequently sunkten or a dozen schooners, which, with their crews, were reckonedwith the missing, after weeks of harassing uncertainty and wearywatching for their return, by widowed women and orphaned chil-dren. Woven into the web and woof of the history of each vesselare stories of winter gales, of hairbreadth escapes from shipwreck .^^!^te^;

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