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Lewis (Steamship)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

A. J. A. R. reminiscence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311273]
Identifier: MSS SC 1362
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed manuscript describing the travels of the author by sea from Philadelphia to San Francisco in 1853. The account includes the author's experiences crossing Panama, traveling aboard the S. S. Lewis, and being shipwrecked and rescued twenty miles north of San Francisco.

Dates: approximately 1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Image of A. J. A. R. reminiscence
Image of A. J. A. R. reminiscence

A. J. A. R. reminiscence

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_SC_1362
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Subject
Immigration and American Expansion 1
Overland Journeys to the Western United States 1
 

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