The journal describes an 1849 voyage from Boston to San Francisco via Cape Horn on the Brig Colorado with lenghty stops at St. Catherines, Bermuda and Valparaíso, Chile. True comments daily on the weather, living conditions, and the passenger's amusements, which included producing and reading aloud a weekly paper, The Boston and California Pioneer. True often discourses on religion and describes the characters of passengers and crew. The journal includes a passenger list and notes ships met or sited. True's diary ends before the ship reaches San Francisco.
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For another account of this voyage see Samuel Brackett's Journal of a Voyage from Boston to California (WA MSS S-1417). and The journal is annotated in pencil in what seems to be a much later hand. There are several pages of text following the diary which date from the 1860s.
A daily journal of the voyage of the brig Otter, commanded by Samuel Hill from Boston to the Alaskan coast by way of the Sandwich Islands. Samuel Furgerson describes places visited, natives, and trade with the Indians, particularly along the Alaskan coast and Queen Charlotte Islands. The last entry comes from Thanikyloo Bay. The map, which is in color, shows the path of the brig Otter along the Northwest Coast of America., Gift of William Robertson Coe., Original binding., and Samuel Furgerson: ship's carpenter on trading voyage to the Pacific Northwest.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii--Description and travel, Northwest Coast of North America--Maps, Northwest, Pacific--Maps, Pacific Coast (Alaska)--Description and travel, Pacific Coast (B.C.)--Description and travel, and Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hill, Samuel and Otter (Brig)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska, Indians of North America--British Columbia, Seafaring life, Seamen--United States, and Voyages and travels--History--19th century
Accompanied by a folder of newspaper clippings, drawings, labels, and other ephemeral items dating between 1858 and 1897, which were received with the diary. and Bound manuscript diary ([275] pages) which begins on March 18, 1879, as Benson leaves Boston for Madagascar and Zanzibar. He arrives in Tamature (Toamasina), Madagascar, in mid-June 1879, spends a month in port, and then two weeks in Zanzibar. After stopping at Saint Helena, the Glide returns to Boston on December 5, and sails again for Zanzibar on December 29. Benson is still at sea when he ends the volume on June 19, 1880, writing that he "shall continue the journal in another book Called The 'Homeward Bound.'" Benson routinely notes the vessel's coordinates and number of days away from home; the weather conditions; all shipboard tasks, activities, and visitors; and the physical ailments suffered by crewmembers, to whom he administers medical treatments. He is also highly introspective and records his personal thoughts and feelings, including those about his wife Margaret Jenny Benson (d. 1921). The diary contains images of women and children which were clipped from periodicals and glued and tipped-in inside covers and on pages throughout; several pieces of paper with manuscript notes are laid in. The final pages of the volume hold lists of items and payments received from the ship's captain, and of provisions on board and to be acquired at ports on route.
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Charles Benson (1830-1881) was an African American sailor serving as steward on the bark Glide, a merchant ship carrying bales of cotton goods to Madagascar and Zanzibar, and picking up rubber there. For further information on Benson and his diaries see Michael Sokolow, Charles Benson: mariner of color in the age of sail ( 2003)., In English., and Purchased from Bray Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007.
Subject (Geographic):
Madagascar--Commerce--United States, United States--Commerce--Madagascar, United States--Commerce--Tanzania--Zanzibar, and Zanzibar--Commerce--United States
Subject (Name):
Glide (Bark)
Subject (Topic):
African American sailors--Massachusetts--Salem, Merchant ships--United States, Sailors--Medical care, and Seafaring life
Photographs document President Chester A. Arthurs excursion through Northwestern Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park in August of 1883. Images of Yellowstone show geysers; waterfalls; Yellowstone Lake; Mammoth Hot Springs; and the Grand Canyon of the Yel
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Inscription on front flyleaf: "Limited to 12 copies for Pres. Arthur and party. Versos blank. This copy is from Senator Vest's library." From title page: "The party: Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States; Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War; P
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Washakie (Wyo.), Gros Ventre River Valley (Wyo.), Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.), Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho), Wind River Valley (Wyo.), and Yellowstone National Park.
Subject (Name):
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886., Clark, W. P. (William Philo), 1845?-1884., Crosby, John Schuyler, 1839-1914., Forwood, William Henry, 1838-1915., Gregory, James F., Hayes, Edward M., Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921., Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926., and Roll
Subject (Topic):
Camp sites, facilities, etc, Landscape photography., and Shoshoni Indians.