The Whaling Bark Progress was a New Bedford whaler transformed into a Whaling museum for Chicago\'s 1893 world\'s fair.
This book uses the story of the Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the Whaling Industry in.
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.
Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine.
The Whaling Bark Progress was a New Bedford whaler transformed into a Whaling museum for Chicago\'s 1893 world\'s fair