Journal kept while attached to the S. S. S. & Exploring Expedition, in the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock

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Title: Journal kept while attached to the S. S. S. & Exploring Expedition, in the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock
Creator: Agate, Alfred T., 1812-1846, House, Timothy, -approximately 1865, and Osborne, Milo, approximately 1810-
Published / Created: 1840 January 1-1841 March
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: 2 p. : b&w illustrations ; 27 cm.
Extent of Digitization: Partially digitized
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: illustrations (AAT)
journals (accounts): diaries (AAT)
Manuscripts
Overland journals
prints: engravings (AAT)
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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