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Emma Jane Baker McIntyre observations on her life in the Pribilof Islands : St. George's Island : ms., 1874.
BANC MSS P-K 229LOCAL
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Title:

Emma Jane Baker McIntyre observations on her life in the Pribilof Islands: St. George's Island : ms., 1874

Creator/Contributor:

McIntyre, Emma Jane Baker, 1846?-, creator

Abstract:

Written for her mother, Mrs. Ashford Baker, while her husband, Captain Wm. J. McIntyre, was resident agent for the Alaska Commercial Company.
Notes on the geography, climate, flora, fauna and natives on the islands, as well as on her daily life.
With this: explanatory note by her daughter, Julia McIntyre Merriman and tear-sheets of two magazine articles on seals in the Pribilof Islands.

Date:

1874 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ak
Seals (Animals) -- Alaska -- Pribilof Islands
Phoques -- Alaska -- Pribilof, Îles
Seals (Animals)
Travel
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) -- Description and travel
Pribilof, Îles (Alaska) -- Descriptions et voyages
Alaska -- Pribilof Islands
Alaska Commercial Company.
Alaska Commercial Company.
Mrs -- Baker, Ashord
Captain -- McIntyre, Wm. (William)
Merriman, Julia McIntyre

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Photograph of Marguerite McIntyre (1875-1961), 1st white child born on the Pribilof Islands (Portrait collection, 1905.200) transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.

Physical Description:

23 pages (1 portfolio) ; 17 cm
partial microfilm reel (16 exposures) : negative (Rich. 115:11) and positive

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS P-K 229LOCAL

Origin:

Alaska