The map has title: A chart of the Bahama Islands with a description of the Gulf of Florida and Windward Passage &c. referr'd from the figures here set down, to the general index annexed. By T.C.
Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, i...
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George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 af...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
Letters to James Monroe, Secretary of State, James Madison, President, and William Jones, Secretary of the Navy, John Astor's efforts to secure government protection for his Pacific Fur Company post at Fort Astoria. One letter by Albert Gallatin intro...
Description:
Typed transcript available.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848., Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849., Jones, William, 1760-1831., Monroe, James, 1758-1831., United States. President (1809-1817 : Madison), United States. Department of State., United States. Navy Dept., and Pacific Fur Company.
Letters, documents, bills and receipts, and printed material belonging to O. T. Tyler. The 23 ALS, dated 1879-1881, most addressed to O. T. Tyler, concern his activities as leader of the Texas Co-Operative Association and the Bell County Co-Operative ...
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Tyler was president of the Texas Co-Operative Association, Patrons of Husbandry at Galveston, and Director of the Bell County Co-Operative Manufacturing Association, organized in 1878 in Salado, Bell County, Texas. In 1880, he chaired a building commi...
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Bell County., Texas., Bell County (Tex.), and Salado (Tex.)
Subject (Name):
Rose, A. J. 1830- (Archibald John),, Tyler, Caroline., Tyler, Orville Thomas, 1810-1886., Bell County Co-Operative Manufacturing Association (Tex.), Salado Co-Operative Council (Salado, Tex.), and Texas Co-Operative Association, Patrons of Husbandry.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cooperative societies, Cotton gins and ginning, and Commerce
Volume containing autograph manuscript records of shipments made by an unidentified carrier in California. Records list letters, packages, and other articles, with names of senders, destinations, values, and charges. Pressed samples of California mo...
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Name):
Hapgood, Charles H., Hapgood, Emma F., and Hapgood, Lydia S.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Shipment of goods, Plant collecting, Mosses, and Type specimens
Volume containing autograph manuscript records of shipments made by an unidentified carrier in California. Records list letters, packages, and other articles, with names of senders, destinations, values, and charges. Pressed samples of California mo...
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Name):
Hapgood, Charles H., Hapgood, Emma F., and Hapgood, Lydia S.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Shipment of goods, Plant collecting, Mosses, and Type specimens
Taber photographs mounted on pages of advertisements for San Francisco businesses. Most of the photographs depict the outside of the business building (including a view of Taber's studio). There are also four portraits: Taber, John P. Jackson (Preside...
