17 blank pages at end not digitized. and Photograph album with 192 photographs documenting the Rydell family's trip from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to California, 1927 February 21-May 1. Photographs show the family at the Grand Canyon and in Nevada and California.
Description:
Photograph album. and Purchased from Kevin Jackson on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2017.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel, California--Pictorial works, Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, and Nevada--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Rydell family
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel--West (U.S.), Vacations--California--Pictorial works, and Women--West (U.S.)
Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom
Image Count:
27
Abstract:
The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom’s other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.
Description:
Blanks not included in pagination.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856, Blossom (Ship), and Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
Subject (Topic):
Meteorological records--19th century, Northwest Passage, and Voyages around the world