Box 1 contains the Correspondence series and the bulk of the Lectures and Photographs series. 2 (Broadside oversize) contains a large printed map of Alaska. and The papers include correspondence regarding Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard's journeys to Alaska, as well as lectures notes, writings, research files, and photographs of Alaska. The bulk of the correspondence is Hubbard's letters to his travel companion Edgar R. Levin; the correspondence also includes one 1950 letter from Levin to Hubbard and correspondence regarding the Alaskan voyages, including letters on supplies and Hubbard's lecture series. The Lectures and Photographs series includes Hubbard's lecture notes; research materials, including two printed maps of Alaska; manuscripts on "the Eskimo language" (possibly Inupiaq); notes on weather and salmon canning; and photographs of the Alaskan landscape and people. Accompanied by Hubbard's 1962 Washington Post obituary.
Alternative Title:
Photographs (6 of 7)
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and Alaska--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbard, Bernard Rosecrans,--1888-1962 and Jesuits--United States
Subject (Topic):
Eskimo languages, Explorers--Alaska, Geologists--United States, Indians of North America--Alaska, Inuit language, Inupiaq dialect, and Salmon canning industry--Alaska
Description of a voyage by the ships Princesa and San Carlos, commanded by Esteban José Martínez and Gonzalo Lopez de Maro, along theCalifornia coast to the Russian settlements. The report notes that the ships called at Santiago, Trinidad, and Unalaska, discovering that the Russians had established six settlements and were planning to colonize a port named Nootka in the following year. The document also speculates about problems the Russian port selltements pose for the Spanish.
Description:
Typewritten English translation also available.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Discovery and exploration, California--Description and travel, Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, and Unalaska (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Lopez de Haro, Gonzalo, Martínez, Esteban José,--1742-1798, Princesa (Ship), and San Carlos (Ship)
Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description:
Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
