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Pocket memoranda of voyage round Cape Horn and in the gold mines, 1853.
BANC MSS 86/23 c
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Title:
Pocket memoranda of voyage round Cape Horn and in the gold mines, 1853Creator/Contributor:
Swett, John, 1830-1913, creatorAbstract:
Calendar book recording daily activities sailing from Boston to San Francisco and working in the gold fields near Marysville.
Bulk of entries relate to mining.
Date:
1853 (issued)Subject:
Voyages to the Pacific coast -- Personal narrativesGold miners -- California -- Biography
Gold mines and mining -- California
Note:
Swett later went into education in San Francisco, and became City Superintendent of Schools in 1889.
Type:
Autobiographies.Diaries.
Physical Description:
1 v.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 86/23 c