Whaling.
Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Merriman family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2294
Scope and content
Nine letters to Dr. Titus Merriman of Elbridge, New York, from his sons in Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, and England, concerning the death of another brother, hard times in Michigan and the adherence to Millerism there, describing travel between Michigan and New York (1839), a Choctaw Indian dance and ball game seen at Mobile, Alabama (1850), a rough steamer trip (1851) on Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit, and a voyage from New York to Liverpool and a tour of the British Isle...
Dates:
1839-1964.
Mitchell family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940780]
Identifier: 2449
Scope and content
Marriage certificate (1799) of Benjamin Mitchell and Eunice Barney, signed by members of the Nantucket Quaker Meeting; ten letters (1841-1844) mainly to Eunice from her daughters and other relatives concerning family affairs, a scarlet fever epidemic, a shipwreck off Nantucket, an anti-slavery meeting, and whaling voyage preparations; genealogy; manuscript poetry, and a photograph of Phoebe Clement. Correspondents include George Barney, Jane Barney, Nehemiah and Anna Mitchell Merritt, Oliver...
Dates:
1799-1900.
Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska
Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9009
Scope and content
One folder of non-sequential loose notes; some look to be hastily written on scrap paper. These contain descriptions of events; phonetic spelling of native words and their meanings; notes about sociology and class which may have been used as a basis for a publication. The second folder contains extensive notes removed from a notebook. Some pages appear to be missing. The notes are observations of the people covering many aspects. There is a list of common animal names and their translation....
Dates:
[1890-1900]
Sylvester Hathaway papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4940
Scope and content
Logbook of the whaling ship "Twilight" and a photograph of its captain, Sylvester Hathaway; describes route and activities of the "Twilight." Also, manuscript reminiscences of Sylvester Hathaway, "Twenty-seven years on a whaleship," together with a typewritten transcription, and a copy of the Honolulu newspaper The Friend, August 11, 1859, containing a poem on the wreck of the "Twilight" and the subsequent rescue of its sailors by the "Morning Star." An article in the same issue further...
Dates:
[ca. 1850-1859].
Valentine family papers
Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239273]
Identifier: 105m
Scope and content
Letters and other material of the Valentine family, including Ellwood, Susan, David A., and Charles G. Valentine, discussing family and neighborhood gossip, a whaling voyage, Quaker camp meetings, boat travel, and an ocean voyage to the Bahamas involving piracy and enprisonment.
Dates:
1833-1872.
William H. Perry journal and photographs
Collection — Manuscript box 15 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242285]
Identifier: 3125
Scope and content
Narrative of a whaling expedition by Perry in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the bark "Milwood" out of New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Perry's copy of the journal of John W. Phelps, Syracuse, New York, providing detailed information on the location of the ship, the capturing of sperm whales, and the weather. Also, eight photographs of the Ithaca, New York area.
Dates:
1857-1861.