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Ships and Shipping

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 9 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

Bill sent to Elijah Thomas (Salt Lake Mail Company)

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241280]
Identifier: MSS SC 442
Scope and Contents

Handwritten bill of $437.84 for food and dry goods delivered between March 22 and July 9, 1857 to various agents. Payment was received 1859 August 10.

Dates: 1859

Enterprise (Steamship) accounting log

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311067]
Identifier: MSS SC 1334
Scope and Contents

Handwritten accounting log of the "Steamer Enterprise." The log gives account of the cargo carried by the Enterprise on several trips as well as the estimated worth of the items.

Dates: 1858-1860

Captain George Cannon ship's journal

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233603254]
Identifier: MSS 7999
Scope and Contents

Contains a log book of the ship Iris, a slave ship in the late 18th early 19th centuries. The daily entries of the voyage of the ship Iris include daily entries detailing the weather, daily tasks onboard the ship, and observations made.

Dates: 1798-1820

Proclamation of D. Bernardo de Galvez

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311596]
Identifier: MSS SC 1377
Scope and Contents

Printed and handwritten proclamation. The item announces the opening and closing of the registers of funds for the San Felipe, a ship of the "Royal Armada," sailing for Spain.

Dates: 1786

James Rodick papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326602]
Identifier: MSS SC 2855
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and printed receipts, a newspaper clipping, certificates, and a letter received by Rodick. The materials relate to Rodick's various journeys and cargo loads on the Rachel Ann.

Dates: 1811-1859

James Scamman business papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2903
Scope and Contents

Incoming letters, real estate documents, and an invoice, primarily relating to business activities of James and Nathaniel Scamman, merchants operating in the vicinity of Saco, Massachusetts (subsequently Maine). Most letters were written from Boston. Authors include Nathan Frazier, Hy Brown, John Short, and Thomas Hill. Contains nine original eighteenth-century documents, plus a photocopy and typescript of each. Also includes an unidentified photograph, taken in the twentieth century.

Dates: 1771-1774

Miguel la Grua Talamanca decree

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311158]
Identifier: MSS SC 1352
Scope and Contents

Printed and signed decree in Spanish. The document establishes the opening of the port of San Blas (Mexico) for commerce with Peru, Santa Fe (Columbia), Guatemala, and New Spain.

Dates: 1796

United Aerial Survey photograph of Consolidated Western Steel Division

 Collection — Oversize-folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232587839]
Identifier: MSS 8755
Content Description

Color aerial photograph of the Consolidated Western Steel Division of United States Steel Corporation plant in Provo, Utah. The photograph dates approximately 1960.

Dates: approximately 1960