black-and-white photography
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historic American cities
historic images
historic photos of North Carolina
Historic Photos of Wilmington
historic photos series
local history
pictorial history
Wilmington
Wilmington North Carolina
Wilmington photos
Product details
- ISBN 9781684420186
- Dimensions: 222 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For a century after its incorporation in 1740, Wilmington, North Carolina remained a sleepy port city. Then, the coming of steam-power, especially railroad and steamship, enabled a steady growth. War, whether the Civil War with its blockade-runners or the shipbuilding born of the world conflicts of the 1900s, brought more growth. With that expansion came, of course, growing pains. The story of Wilmington, North Carolina is a story of rivers, sounds, and sea, and of a city that grew near the places where those waters mingled. It is the story of a port that became the "Lifeline of the Confederacy” as well as the lifeline of a state. And in this case, it is the story of over a hundred years of history (1860s to 1970s) told through almost two hundred photographs—the captured essences of people and events now lost.
