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1. Accompt made up with Joseph Sturges and Jacob Zakry indian, 1719 March 4.
- Creator:
- Sturges, Joseph
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 503
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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 include payments to a relative and for clothing; 45 shillings a year for "3 whale seasons dyet;" and another charge for "3 years expense at Cape Cod." Items in Zachary's favor include "your share of the oyle of 3/4s of a whale" and "your share of a shark." Account signed by Joseph Sturges
- Description:
- In English., Date given in original as: "March 4th 1718/9.", and Accompanied by partial transcript and bookseller description.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
- Subject (Name):
- Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Accompt made up with Joseph Sturges and Jacob Zakry indian, 1719 March 4.
2. Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795
- Creator:
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Published / Created:
- 1792-1800, bulk 1792-1794.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2405 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 130
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795
3. Journal of a voyage around Cape Horn, 1839 Oct 11-1841 Feb 5.
- Creator:
- Olmsted, Francis Allyn, 1819-1844
- Published / Created:
- 1839 October 11-1841 February 5
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 151
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
- Alternative Title:
- Incidents of a whaling voyage.
- Description:
- Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hawaii--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Missions--Hawaii and Whaling
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a voyage around Cape Horn, 1839 Oct 11-1841 Feb 5.
4. Journal of a voyage around Cape Horn, 1839 Oct 11-1841 Feb 5.
- Creator:
- Olmsted, Francis Allyn, 1819-1844
- Published / Created:
- 1839 October 11-1841 February 5
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 151
- Image Count:
- 16
- Abstract:
- Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
- Alternative Title:
- Incidents of a whaling voyage.
- Description:
- Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hawaii--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Missions--Hawaii and Whaling
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a voyage around Cape Horn, 1839 Oct 11-1841 Feb 5.
5. Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Capt. W.B. Rogers out N.B. 2 yrs. voyage 1845 : manuscript
- Creator:
- Bowles, Resolvid W., author
- Published / Created:
- not before 1847.
- Call Number:
- Za B6811 847J
- Image Count:
- 54
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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, Massachusetts, on 1845 July 18, destined for the Pacific Ocean. The author describes whale hunts, places visited (including Lima, Peru, and the Hawaiian islands), weather, animals, and life on the ship. Illustrated with eight colored-pencil drawings of ships, whale species, and geographic views. The last entry, dated 1847 November 5, marks the end of the voyage. Pages 32-38 contain six poems or shanties; the names and locations of the crew and officers are listed on pages 39-40.
- Alternative Title:
- 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., Title from title page., Written on single sheets of paper adhered to a printed copy of Rowlett's Tables of Discount. Page 1A/1B is laid in. Resolvid W. Bowles' name and occupation (cooper) are written on the title page and he is listed among the ship's crew, but it is unclear whether the manuscript is in his hand or was copied by someone else at a later date., Endpapers include manuscript notes, figures, and J.D. Sturtevant's autograph. The number "4050" is written on a sticker adhered to the title page., and In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hawaii and Lima (Peru)
- Subject (Name):
- Acushnet (Whaler)
- Subject (Topic):
- Whaling, Whaling ships, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Capt. W.B. Rogers out N.B. 2 yrs. voyage 1845 : manuscript
6. Pêche à la baleine
- Creator:
- Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1750?]
- Call Number:
- 2009 1855
- Image Count:
- 15
- Description:
- Wrapped in folded brown paper., Title from ms. note on paper wrapping., A peep show consisting of six leaves (leaves 2 to 6 are numbered), printed on stiff paper, hand-colored and cut out., Depicts a three-dimensional whaling scene with large boats and small, whalers, whales, a shipwreck, and a mountainous landscape in the background and on the sides., and Originally viewed in a box that held the leaves separately in individual planes.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Topic):
- Whaling and Peep shows
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pêche à la baleine
7. Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 397
- Collection Title:
- Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia
- Image Count:
- 142
- Abstract:
- Photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, ca. 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, California.
- Description:
- Manuscript captions on individual photographs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska, British Columbia, Chernofsky Harbor (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Seattle (Wash.), Siberia (Russia), Sitka (Alaska), and Washintgon (State)
- Subject (Topic):
- Aleuts, Arctic peoples, Children, Dwellings, Eskimos, Glaciers, Indians of North America, Landscape photography, Salmon canning industry, Sealing, Ships, Totem poles, and Whaling
- Collection Created:
- ca. 1895
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia
8. The Whale, and the dangers of whaling. : With beautiful and appropriate engravings
- Published / Created:
- 1839.
- Call Number:
- Shirley 5429
- Image Count:
- 30
- Description:
- BEIN Shirley 5429: Original wrappers. Autograph: Luther. Autograph: S.A. Gates., Condensed from William Scoresby's Account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the Northern whale-fishery, (Edinburgh, 1820) v. 1, chapter 6; v. 2, chapter 4., At head of wrapper title: Babcock's no. 4 toys., In printed wrapper., "Juvenile and toy books. Published and for sale by S. Babcock"--P. [4] of wrapper., and "Toy books. ... No. 4, toys,--price six cents each, 48 kinds"--P. [4] of wrapper.
- Publisher:
- S. Babcock,--Church-Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Whales and Whaling
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Whale, and the dangers of whaling. : With beautiful and appropriate engravings
9. The new South Sea fishery, or, A cheap way to catch whales [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.01.04.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific and facing the west coast of North American, Pitt stands fishing with a rod baited with a sack labelled "3 million genl. elc." Beside him in the boat is Henry Dundas holding another sack labelled "million gen. elec" and beside him in the back of the boat, a third sack also labelled "million gen elec." Selected points along the shore from the Sea of Kamtschatka and Bristol Bay (north) to New Mexico are identified with no attempt to convey a sense of scale: Nortons Sound, Alaska, Cooks River, Ps. William Sound, Spanish Land, Nootka or King Georges Sound, New Albion, California. Off the coast of Alaska are shown the islands Arako and Foxes Is. Whales surface above the water inside the buoys with flags reading "10 leagues." In the upper left is a galley "Convention." Pitt says "I fear Harry the fishing will never answer." Dundas replies, "Never mind tha Billy the gudgeons we have caught in England will pay for all."
- Alternative Title:
- Cheap way to catch whales
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: The hostile nations view with glad surprise, the frugal plans of minsters so wise, but they the censure of the world despise, sure from their faithfull commons of suplies [sic], convinced that man must fame immortal gain, Who first dare fish with millions in the Spanish Main., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The new South Sea fishery, or, A cheap way to catch whales [graphic]
