Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet, 1970-1981, bulk 1981

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Summary

Title:
Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet
Dates:
1970-1981, bulk 1981
Creators:
Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991
Abstract:
Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet (SAFR 23807, HDC 1651) is a copy of a typescript entitled, California Gold Rush Fleet: Vessels Sailing From the East Coast of the United States and Canada, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849, Together with a Cameo Biography of Each Vessel, by John B. Goodman. It contains encyclopedic entries for 22 of the more than 762 ships covered in the much larger nineteen volume manuscript. Comprising 177 pages, including front matter, seven appendices (A through H) and a bibliography, this photocopy of a portion of the larger work, also includes artwork and foldout hand drawn maps.
Extent:
1 item
Language:
In English.
Preferred citation:

[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item Number], HDC1651 (SAFR 23807), Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Background

Scope and content:

Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet (SAFR 23807, HDC 1651) is a copy of a typescript entitled, California Gold Rush Fleet: Vessels Sailing From the East Coast of the United States and Canada, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849, Together with a Cameo Biography of Each Vessel, by John B. Goodman. It contains encyclopedic entries for 22 of the more than 762 ships covered in the much larger nineteen volume manuscript. Comprising 177 pages, including front matter, seven appendices (A through H) and a bibliography, this photocopy of a portion of the larger work, also includes artwork and foldout hand drawn maps.

Biographical / historical:

John B. Goodman III (1901 - 1991) was an amateur historian who spent twenty years researching and writing about the hundreds of ships that sailed from the east coast of the United States to California during the Gold Rush.

Goodman's major unpublished work, was his monumental California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849. This eleven volume compilation, twenty one years in preparation, supported by eight volumes of addenda, extends to some 5,000 manuscript pages. Comprised of individual histories of 762 ships in alphabetical order, it records a broad spectrum of information derived from many and diverse sources about the multitude of gold rush vessels. The encyclopedia and a separately published key to the work were left by him to the Huntington library in San Moreno, California at his death, on the eve of his 90th birthday. This collection is a copy of twenty-two of these ship's cameo biographies.

Acquisition information:

SAFR-02183

Typescript was transferred from J. Porter Shaw Library in 2011

Processing information:

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Arrangement:

This is a collection of one item

Physical location:
San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard .

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by: Historic Documents Department Staff (Brogden).
Date Prepared:
2012
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from ICMS database and converted into xml from a template revised and updated by San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department. 8/28/2012 .

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Preferred citation:

[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item Number], HDC1651 (SAFR 23807), Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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