Journal kept while attached to the South Sea Surveying & Exploring Expedition on board of the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock

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Title: Journal kept while attached to the South Sea Surveying & Exploring Expedition on board of the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock
Contributor: Emmons, George Foster, 1811-1884
Peacock (Sloop of war : 1828-1841)
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
United States. Navy--History--19th century
Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
Published / Created: 1839 October 22-30
Abstract: Three journals and two sketchbooks, created during the Wilkes Expedition, describe and illustrate surveys of Pacific harbors, an overland journey from Vancouver to San Francisco, Antarctic, and the South Seas. Family and professional letters and documents are inserted. A scrapbook of letters and orders documents George Emmons's active navy career and another volume of clippings records the 1842 court martial of Charles Wilkes and other members of the United States Exploring Expedition.
Extent: 11 p. : b&w illustrations ; 27 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Diagrams
illustrations (AAT)
journals (accounts): diaries (AAT)
Manuscripts
Maps in books
Overland journals
Subject (Name): Emmons, George Foster, 1811-1884
Peacock (Sloop of war : 1828-1841)
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
United States. Navy--History--19th century
Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

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