The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford whaler 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 .
Mcfarland & Company The last voyage of the whaling bark progress: new bedford, chicago and the twilight of an industry, paperback/daniel gifford
