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Charles Melville Scammon papers, 1849-1911.
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Title:
Charles Melville Scammon papers, 1849-1911Creator/Contributor:
Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Whymper, Frederick, illustrator.Abstract:
Two journals of whaling voyages, 1853-1863; family and personal correspondence, accounts and papers, 1849-1910; correspondence
and papers relating to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1863-1911; correspondence and papers concerning the Western Union
Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension, 1865-1867. Scrapbooks, maps and pictures with the papers. A few
sketches by Frederick Whymper included.
Date:
1849 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Whaling
Voyages and travels
Ocean travel -- History
Baleines -- Chasse
Voyages
journeys
Ocean travel
Voyages and travels
Whaling
United States. -- Revenue-Cutter Service.
Western Union Telegraph Company. -- Russian Extension.
United States. -- Revenue-Cutter Service
Scammon, Charles Melville -- 1825-1911 -- Archives
Scammon, Charles Melville -- 1825-1911 -- Diaries
Scammon, Charles Melville -- 1825-1911
Note:
P-K 200: Also available on an additional partial microfilm reel (negative [Rich. 395:20], not to be reproduced (use Rich.
601:4).
P-K 205: Also available on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 2379.
Partial container list (for microfilmed portions of collection only, P-K 200-205) available in the library.
Journal aboard the bark Ocean Bird on a whaling voyage to Scammon's Lagoon, winter of 1858-1859 / edited and annotated by
David A. Henderson. Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop, 1970.
Related collection: Charles Melville Scammon letters to Otis Kimball, 1849-1852 (BANC MSS 70/90 c).
Related collection: Charles Melville Scammon letter to Mr. [Otis] Kimball, 1849 Oct. 16 (BANC MSS 90/78 c).
Photographic prints, sketches and other pictorial materials from P-K 206-207 (including P-K 206 volumes 5-6) have been transferred
to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1950.003-.004--PIC).
In English.
Charles Melville Scammon papers, BANC MSS P-K 200-207, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Diarydiaries.
scrapbooks.
Diaries.
Albums (Books)
Archives.
History.
Diaries.
Albums (Books)
Scrapbooks.
Journaux intimes.
Albums personnalisés.
Physical Description:
print
microfilm reel
2.65 (1 6 4 2
2 microfilm reels : negative (P-K 200: Rich. 601:4; P-K 201-202: Rich. 601:4; P-K 203-204; Rich. 550:9) and positive.
1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 817:9)
1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2638) and positive.
Language:
English