Voyage to California, 1849-1853

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Description

Title: Voyage to California, 1849-1853
Creator: Windeler, Adolphus
Abstract: The journal describes an 1849 voyage to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn, working in the bay unloading ships, and the daily routine of gold mining. Windeler, with eight others, formed a company and their account books, containing entries for various other companies, are laid in his journal. There are 107 pencil sketches illustrating the journal, some of which might be attributed to Windeler's friend Carl Christendorff
Description: Windeler was a native of Hamburg, Germany who sailed from New York to California as a member of the crew of the ship Probus.
Typed transcript available.
Available on microfilm.
Extent: 1 box.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Account books United States
Diaries United States
Sketches United States
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): California.
California
Subject (Name): Christendorff, Carl Frederich.
Windeler, Adolphus.
Probus (Ship)
Subject (Topic): Frontier and pioneer life
Gold mines and mining
Loading and unloading
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Description and travel
Gold discoveries
Subjects: Christendorff, Carl Frederich
Windeler, Adolphus
Probus (Ship)
Frontier and pioneer life > California
Gold mines and mining > California
Loading and unloading > California
Voyages to the Pacific coast
California > Pictorial works
California > Description and travel
California > Gold discoveries
United States

Access: Public
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Citation: Adolphus Windeler, Voyage to California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.