Sketchbooks from U.S. Sloop of War Peacock, 1838-1842

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Title: Sketchbooks from U.S. Sloop of War Peacock, 1838-1842
Alternative Title: Drawings made while attached to the South Seas Surveying & Exploring Expedition on board the U. S. Sloop of War "Peacock"
Creator: Emmons, George Foster, 1811-1884
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: 1838-42
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: 1 vol. : b&w illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Drawings
Halftones
illustrations (AAT)
journals (accounts): diaries (AAT)
Photomechanical prints
Sketchbooks
Subject (Geographic): Antarctica--Pictorial works
Oceania--Pictorial works
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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Citation: A detailed list of material in the collection can be found in; Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts, 166-169, p. 76-81.
George Foster Emmons Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.