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Thatcher Magoun & Son correspondence, 1833-1867.
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Thatcher Magoun & Son correspondence, 1833-1867Creator/Contributor:
Thatcher Magoun & Son, creator, creator.Abstract:
156 letters to the Thatcher Magoun & Son company from bankers, commission merchants, captains, government officials, and other
owners, merchants, and mariners. Letters document how firms, owners and captains navigated the Civil War years, some of the
ramifications of the Gold Rush, and the panic of 1855 (including explicit information on the effects of the failure of Adams
& Co. in San Francisco). There is also a run of letters from the Chincha Islands in the late 1850s, an account of how Captain
Sylvanus Bourne was able to discover the location of a leak in the ship Greenwich laden with coal. The collection also includes
one folder of calculations and balance sheets for the company in 1844.
Date:
1833 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caShipping -- United States -- 19th century
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History
Commerce
Gold mines and mining
Shipping
United States -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
California
United States
Thatcher Magoun & Son -- Archives
Note:
Purchase from Ten Pound Island Book Company; 2021.
Thatcher Magoun & Son was founded in 1838 in Boston by Thatcher Magoun. Magoun, born in 1775, started his career as a ship's
carpenter and went on to open the first shipyard in Medford, Massachussetts. Thatcher Magoun & Son was one the dominant shipping
firms on the east coast.
Thatcher Magoun Company correspondence, BANC MSS 2021/137, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
ships' papers.Archives.
History.
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Language:
English