Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Manuscript daybook in unidentified hands, recording daily sales of snuff, cigars, and other products by Fribourg & Treyer. Entries list customer names and addresses; varieties and prices of snuff and cigars, with amounts purchased by weight or container; destinations and transportation costs for orders sent by coach or river boat; and notes indicating payments received or entry into accounts. Notes on preliminary pages include names and accounts relating to suppliers and employees. Over 10,000 sales are listed, including entries for Queen Charlotte, George IV, as Prince of Wales, Beau Brummell, Charles Stanhope, Earl of Harrington, and others in their social circle
Description:
Fribourg & Treyer, 34 Haymarket, London, manufactured and sold snuff, cigars, and other tobacco products, 1720-1981. From 1780 to 1803, Fribourg & Treyer was owned by G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus) Treyer and Martha Evans Treyer., In English., and Binding: full sheep, with blind-tooled border; spine broken.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., London, and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Brummell, Beau, 1778-1840., Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851., Treyer, G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus), Treyer, Martha Evans., and Fribourg & Treyer (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Cigar industry, Snuff, Tobacco industry, Tobacco use, Tobacco workers, Upper class, Social life and customs, and Economic conditions
Manuscript kennel book listing "whelps bread" from 1708 to 1727, giving sire, dam, and placement for each. A few pages at the back of the book list hounds given by Orlebar to John Biggs, the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Halifax between 1716 and 1726
Description:
Richard Orlebar (1671-1733) attended Trinity College, Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple and a dedicated hunter. He married the heiress Diana Astry in 1708 and the couple built Hinwick Hall in Bedfordshire between 1709 and 1714. Orlebar served as High Sherriff of Bedfordshire in 1720, and died childless at Hinwick Hall in 1733., In English., Accompanied by a twentieth-century typescript carbon, "The Oakley Hunt.", and Binding: contemporary paper, stitched.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bedfordshire., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Orlebar, Richard, 1671-1733.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Breeding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Bedfordshire (England), and Social life and customs
Photograph album containing 36 black and white photographs by unidentified photographers depicting the process of rehabilitating the lodge of the Elks fraternal order in Manila, Philippines from 1946-1949. Photographs depict the ruins of the lodge following its occupation by Japanese soldiers; views of the reconstruction of the lodge, from 1946-1949; exterior views of the completed lodge; interior views of the completed lodge, including scenes of the bar, dining room, library, ladies' lounge, and lodge room; studio portraits of the construction committee members, architect, interior decorator, and contractors; and studio portraits of the lodge officers for 1948-1949. Also included in the album are brief printed texts, including: descriptions of the lodge building and its history; descriptions of the pictured rooms; a description of the process of rehabilitation and a listing of the allocation of funds for the construction of the building, interior furnishings, and decor; and an accounting audit by Price, Waterhouse & Co. of the receipts and expenditures of the construction committee during the rehabilitation process
Description:
The Elks, also known as the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is a fraternal order founded in the United States in 1868., Text in English., Title from recto of leaf six., Place and date of creation from internal evidence., and Portraits captioned on facing pages.
Subject (Geographic):
Philippines, Manila, Philippines., and Manila (Philippines)
Americans, Social life and customs, Architects, Building, Buildings, Repair and reconstruction, Clubhouses, Contractors, Fraternal organizations, Interior decorators, Buildings, structures, etc, and History
Autograph manuscript arithmetic notebook by Sarah North Pike, 1686, annotated with Pike family records, 1695-1771; and 18 birth certificates for members of the Pike family, printed forms completed in manuscript, dated at Cork, 1724-1776. Arithmetic notes include instructions and practice examples for addition, subtraction, multiplication, reduction, weights and measures, the golden ratio, and barter; calligraphic writing and drawings in colored inks; and brief references to the Sarah North Pike, her teacher Elizabeth Beane, and the North family. Birth certificates and family records document births, marriages, and deaths of children born to Sarah North Pike, 1695-1707, Agnes Riggs Pike, 1721-1723, Mary Randall Pike, 1723-1744, Anne Clibbon Pike, 1766-1771, and Katherine Hutchinson Pike, 1776. Birth certificates are signed by midwives, including male midwives, 1768-1776
Description:
Sarah North Pike (1666-1716) was a daughter of Mary North and Thomas North, of Lewin’s Mead, in Bristol, England. Sarah North married Thomas Pope in 1687; in 1693 she married Ebenezer Pike (1662-1724), of Cork, Ireland, a son of Elizabeth Jackson Pike (1636-1688) and Richard Pike (1627-1688). In 1720, Ebenezer Pike married Agnes Riggs Pike (circa 1690-1723). Children of Sarah North Pike and Ebenezer Pike included Richard Pike (1696-1763), who married Mary Randall Pike (1699-1775) in 1722; their children included Ebenezer Pike (1724-1785), who married Anne Clibbon Pike (1730-1801) in 1765, and Samuel Pike (1726-1796), who married Katherine Hutchinson Pike (1744-1813) in 1769. Members of the Pike family were Quakers and were active as merchants and bankers in Cork, where members of the family founded Pike’s Bank and the Cork Steamship Company., In English., Title page of arithmetic notebook: Sarah North her book, scholler to Eliz Beane, Mrs in the art of writing and arithmetic, anno 1686., and Binding of arithmetic notebook: full calf with gold-tooled covers and spine, page edges gilt, and marbled end papers.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland, Cork, and Cork (Ireland)
Subject (Name):
Beane, Elizabeth., Pike, Agnes Riggs, approximately 1690-1723., Pike, Anne Clibbon, 1730-1801., Pike, Ebenezer, 1662-1724., Pike, Ebenezer, 1724-1785., Pike, Katherine Hutchinson, 1744-1813., Pike, Mary Randall, 1699-1775., Pike, Richard, 1696-1763., Pike, Samuel, 1726-1796., Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716., and Pike family.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Study and teaching, Calligraphy, Midwifery, Midwives, Penmanship, English, Quakers, Women, Education, Women midwives, Weights and measures, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collection includes directions for addition, subtraction, multiplcation, and division; tables of weights and measures; and directions for calculating the number of minutes in years. Many of the poems are occasional, including two addressed to Mrs. Christian Kerr on her birthday and two to Mr Kerr of Chatto on his 71st birthday. The volume also contains several further entries concerning the Kerrs' neighborhood, including a copy of "a circular advertisement for the Douffs in Kelso district, the consecration of the yew at Sunlaws." The collection also contains brief journal entries on significant events, including a murder, a burnt house, and memoranda on wages paid and Dos-a-dos, the volume contains more arithmetic problems; financial accounts; household inventories; lists of books in her possession; and a list of expenses concerning her legal "affair with Hardon beginning 1727."
Description:
Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed the estates of Chatto and Sunlaws on William Scott of Thirlestain., In English., Laid in: copy of a letter, in the same hand, concerning business and family matters., The manuscript contains several crude drawings, especially of faces., On back flyleaf: "William Kerr," "Mrs. Christian Kerr Her Arithmetick Boock.", Author's name on decorated flyleaf. Her name also appears on p. 83, again decorated., and Binding: full parchment; leather ties. Handwritten financial account written on back cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
