A guide to the Charles Heussy Walker collection, 1897-1906

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2012

A Guide to the Charles Heussy Walker collection

HDC1661

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service
2012, National Park Service

Title: Charles Heussy Walker collection
Date: 1897-1906
Date (bulk): 1897-1898
Identifier/Call Number: HDC1661 (SAFR 23817)
Compiler ||Pacific Steam Whaling Company: Pacific Steam Whaling Company Walker, Charles Heussy
Physical Description: 4 items
Repository: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Charles Heussy Walker collection, 1897-1906 (SAFR 23817, HDC 1661) collection consists of 3 letters of introduction for Charles Heussy Walker, who was dispatched to provide relief for Pacific Steam Whaling Company whalers whose vessels were ice bound in Point Barrow, Alaska. There is also a news clipping about a later stranding of whalers on Herschel Island. The collection has been processed to the file level and is open for use without restrictions.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s): In English.

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Processing Note

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Preferred Citation

[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item Number], HDC1661 (SAFR 23817), Charles Heussy Walker collection, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Acquisition Information

SAFR-02233
Donated by a relative of Charles Heussy Walker.

Historical or Biographical Note

The Pacific Steam Whaling Company was formed in San Francisco in 1883. It had a fleet of whaling vessels that routinely went to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean to harvest whales. Vessels included ORCA , JESSE H. FREEMAN, BELVEDERE, NEWPORT, FEARLESS, JEANIE and ROSARIO. An account of the stranding of the company's vessels in 1897 can be found in the book: Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic by John R. Bockstoce pp. 315-323.
Edward Avery McIlhenny was a naturalist from University Museum in Philadelphia who had leased a former rescue station at Point Barrow in 1897 (then newly acquired by Pacific Steam Whaling Company from the Federal Government) and planned to winter there to collect specimens for an ethnological collection.

Collection Scope and Content

The Charles Heussy Walker collection, 1897-1906 (SAFR 23817, HDC 1661) collection consists of 3 letters of introduction for Charles Heussy Walker, who was dispatched to provide relief for Pacific Steam Whaling Company whalers whose vessels were ice bound in Point Barrow, Alaska. There is also a news clipping about a later stranding of whalers on Herschel Island. The collection has been processed to the file level and is open for use without restrictions.

Collection Arrangement

3 letters and one newspaper article in 1 folder

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Whaling
Whaling vessels
Walker, Charles Heussy
McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949
Pacific Steam Whaling Co.
Alaska
Correspondence
Clippings
Whalemen