Photograph albums documenting the voyage and return trip of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska. There are views of passengers and crew aboard ship and ashore, glaciers and tundra, sealing in the Probilof Islands, and whaling fleets at Port Clarence. P...
Description:
Edward Henry Harriman made his fortune in the stock market, and became active in the consolidation of rail lines in the late nineteenth century. In 1899 he organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grin...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Sitka (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Pribilof Islands (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Aleuts, Eskimos, Whaling, Sealing, and Description and travel
Manuscript current account, signed, detailing financial transactions between the Massachusetts whaler Joseph Sturges and his Native American employee, Jacob Zakry (or Zachary) over a three-year period ending on March 4, 1719. Items charged to Zachary ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
Subject (Name):
Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
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 ...
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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...
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 ship's log, illustrated, mounted on pages from a bound printed copy of John Rowlett's Tables of Discount, or Interest, on Every Dollar[...]. The majority of the volume (pages 1A/1B-31) details a whaling voyage that began in New Bedford, Mas...
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Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Captain William B. Rogers out New Bedford two years voyage 1845 and Rowlett interest tables
Description:
The Acushnet is the same whaling ship Herman Melville joined in 1840; his experiences helped shape Moby-Dick.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Name):
Acushnet (Whaler)
Subject (Topic):
Whaling, Whaling ships, and Description and travel
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture
Description:
BEIN Za M497 851kb Copy 1: In original cloth. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten. Bookseller's label: The Holliday Bookshop, 49 E. 49th St., New York.
Two photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, circa 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, Califo...
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (b. 1844) was an engineer aboard the USRC Bear, a ship in the United States Revenue-Cutter Service active in the Arctic region, circa 1885-1892.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Arctic regions, Arena, Point (Calif.), Atka Island (Alaska), Barrow, Point (Alaska), Bogoslof Island (Alaska), Chagulak Island (Alaska), Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia), East Cape (Russia), Expedition Island (Alaska), Fairway Rock (Alaska), Fort Simpson (N.W.T.), Glacier Bay (Alaska), Golovin (Alaska), Grantley Harbor (Alaska), Hoonah (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Juneau (Alaska), Lisburne, Cape (Alaska), Nome (Alaska), Plover Bay (Russia), Point Reyes (Calif.), Point Spencer (Alaska), Port Chester (Alaska), Port Clarence (Alaska), Port Townsend (Wash.), Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska), Saint Lawrence Bay (Russia), Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska), Saint Michael Island (Alaska), Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Serdtse-Kamen, Cape (Russia), Severgin Strait (Russia), Siberia, Eastern (Russia), Silver Bay (Alaska), Sitka (Alaska), Thompson, Cape (North Slope Borough, Alaska), Ukivok (Alaska), Unalaska (Alaska), Wrangell (Alaska), and Yakutuk Bay (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Broadbent, Alfred L., McIntyre, Lucy., Swan, James G., 1818-1900., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Bear (Ship), Corwin (Ship), Rush (Ship), Wolcott (Ship), and United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
Subject (Topic):
Aleuts, Boats, Arctic peoples, Bidarkas, Cemeteries, Dogsledding, Eskimos, Indians of North America, Kayaks, Sealing, Whaling, and Description and travel
Set of 290 black-and-white prints of Rockwell Kent's illustrations and decorations for the 1930 Lakeside edition of Moby Dick. The prints are housed in 148 mats, with each mat holding one to four prints, and divided into three volumes that correspond ...
Alternative Title:
Moby Dick
Description:
BEIN 2023 Folio 19: From the library of William S. Reese. Twenty-six sheets bear the Strathmore drawing board trademark stamp. Accompanied by manuscript inventory of illustrations in an unidentified hand (11 pages). Each mat is numbered in pencil with...
