Register of the Small 19th Century Ocean Travel Collections, 1834-1861
Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by
Don Walker
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
Fax: (209) 946-2810
URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
© 1998
University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Register of the Small 19th Century Ocean Travel Collections, 1834-1861
Collection number: Mss2
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library
University of the Pacific
Contact Information
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- Fax: (209) 946-2810
- URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
- Processed by:
- Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- October 1998
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Small 19th Century Ocean Travel Collections,
Date (inclusive): 1834-1861
Collection number: Mss2
Creator:
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Small 19th Century Ocean Travel Collections, Mss2,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Foster, Daniel B.
personal name
Foster, Jacob
personal name
Hitchcock, Edwin
personal name
Foster family
personal name
Wood family
subject
Ocean travel
subject
Voyages to the Pacific coast
subject
Women travelers -Diaries
subject
Whalers -Diaries
subject
Steamboats -Passenger accomodations
subject
Steamboats -California -History
subject
Pacific Ocean -Description and travel
subject
Hawaii -Description and travel
subject
Cuba -Description and travel
subject
New Orleans (La.) -Description and travel
subject
California -History -Sources
subject
Connecticut -Social life and customs
subject
Ariel (Steamships)
subject
Elizabeth Starbuck (Ship)
subject
Panama (Steamship)
subject
Jane A. Falkenburgh (Steamship)
subject
Henry (Ship)
subject
Herefordshire (Ship)
subject
John Gilpen (Ship)
Biography
Little is known of these five 19th century Americans who sailed the Pacific Ocean during
the mid-19th century. Some of them were professional sailors, while others were on the
seas for the first, and perhaps only, time in their lives. At least two of the
collections contain diaries by women.s
1: BARKES (M.M.) LETTER, 1848 [B255] gift of Reginald R. Stuart [describes steamship voyage from New York to Havana and New
Orleans]
2: FOSTER (DANIEL B.) PAPERS, 1850-1873 [F754] gift of Reginald R. Stuart [Foster was an Oregon steamship captain and pioneer.]
2.1: Daily menus on steamer Panama (1850)
2.2: Shipboard diary of Daniel B. Foster, sailing from Astoria, Ore. to Honolulu and back (1872-1873)
2.3: Letter from Edwin Hitchcock, Norwich, Conn. to Daniel B. Foster (1850)]
3: TABER (CHARLES) JOURNAL, 1834-1837 [T113] [journal of whaling trip around Cape Horn]
4: TWIST (JULIA PECK) DIARY, 1861 [T974] gift of Jeanne W. Mullens [diary of trip from New York to San Francisco via Panama]
5: WOOD FAMILY DIARIES, 1846; 1857-1858 [W873] gift of Reginald R. Stuart
1.1: 1846 diary describes voyage from Newburyport, R.I. via Falkland Islands and Hawaii to Oregon
1.2: 1857-1858 woman's diary describes voyage around the Horn from Hawaii to New Bedford, Mass.