Volume 1. Foreword / Amanda McMullen, President and CEO, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Introduction: A spectacle in motion / Christina Connett, PhD, Chief Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Benjamin Russell: New Bedford's definitive whaleman artist / Michael P. Dyer, Curator of Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Globalization and diversity of maritime industries from New Bedford / Akeia Benard, PhD, Curator of Social History, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Time machines: moving panoramas in nineteenth-century U.S. literature / Jamie L. Jones, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Whaling voyage 'round the world: American captialism in a work of art / Keith Kauppila, independent scholar, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
From worthless to priceless in sixty years / D. Jordan Berson, Director of Collections, New Bedford Whaling Museum
The textile conservation process / Kathryn Tarleton, Principal, ConText, Inc., Charlotte Hamlin, Principal, ConText, Inc.
An overview of the content of the Panorama / Michael P. Dyer, Curator of Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum