Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates ...
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
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 c...
Description:
Samuel Furgerson: ship's carpenter on trading voyage to the Pacific Northwest.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., British Columbia., Hawaii, Pacific Coast (Alaska), Pacific Coast (B.C.), and Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Furgerson, Samuel., Hill, Samuel., and Otter (Brig)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Seafaring life, Voyages and travels, History, and Description and travel
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 c...
Description:
Samuel Furgerson: ship's carpenter on trading voyage to the Pacific Northwest.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., British Columbia., Hawaii, Pacific Coast (Alaska), Pacific Coast (B.C.), and Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Furgerson, Samuel., Hill, Samuel., and Otter (Brig)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Seafaring life, Voyages and travels, History, and Description and travel
Holograph journal (ca. 300 pages) written in a printed pocket diary for the year 1866, of Henry Ferguson's experiences with his brother Samuel as passengers on the clipper-ship Hornet sailing from New York on Jan 15 1866, to San Francisco; the onboard...
Manuscript ship's log, illustrated, mounted on pages from a bound printed copy of John Rowlett's Tables of Discount, or Interest, on Every Dollar[...]. The majority of the volume (pages 1A/1B-31) details a whaling voyage that began in New Bedford, Mas...
Alternative Title:
Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Captain William B. Rogers out New Bedford two years voyage 1845 and Rowlett interest tables
Description:
The Acushnet is the same whaling ship Herman Melville joined in 1840; his experiences helped shape Moby-Dick.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Name):
Acushnet (Whaler)
Subject (Topic):
Whaling, Whaling ships, and Description and travel
Photograph album of a trip from San Francisco to Honolulu in February and March of 1923. Members of the trip include Mrs. H. T. Stickney, from New York, Bishop W. Q. Shepard, from Portland, Dr. A. L. Howarth, also from Portland, Edward H. Todd and hi...
Description:
Individual photographs are 6.2 x 8.6 cm. or smaller, and have manuscript captions in chalk.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii
Subject (Name):
Stickney, H. T., Mr., Shepard, W. Q., Bishop., Howarth, A. L., Dr., Todd, Edward H., Jones, C. H., Mrs., and Hawaiian Mission Board.
Photographs of the funeral procession of King Kalakaua, who died in 1891, including scenes at Nuuanu Cemetery and of his mourning sister, Queen Liliuokalani, and mourners paying their respects at the wake at the Iolani Royal Palace. There are also st...
Description:
Advertisements for various Honolulu and San Francisco photographers (L. Williams, M. Dickson, William H. Davis, Taber) on some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Honolulu
Subject (Name):
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1836-1891, Creighton, Robert J., Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917, Kaiulani, Princess of Hawaii, 1875-1899, and Likelike, Miriam, Princess of Hawaii, 1851-1887
