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Article: Foss Maritime Company.(Company overview)
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- December 1, 2008
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REVIEWED BY BRUCE BULS, TECHNICAL EDITOR
If you're at all nostalgic, the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing probably has something for you. The San Francisco publisher specializes in local history and has mined deep veins of black-and-white photos from one corner of the country to the other for its many books.
The subject of Foss Maritime Company is self-explanatory, but the 200 or so photos in the book provide a broader visual history of life on the waterfront in the Pacific Northwest from the late 1800s to the present.
Given the publisher's emphasis on archival photography, most of the book focuses on the early days of the ...