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[Materials from holdings at the California Historical Society], 1787-1912 1786-1896
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Electronic reproduction of materials selected from the collection of the California Historical Society. Manuscript and rare printed materials, including memoirs, voyage narratives, prices current a...
Electronic reproduction of materials selected from the collection of the California Historical Society. Manuscript and rare printed materials, including memoirs, voyage narratives, prices current and diaries, that document aspects of the China trade and the development of the fur trade.
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- English
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- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2014]
- ©2014
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- 1 online resource
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- Title supplied by cataloguer (resource viewed Jan. 26, 2014)
- Includes materials by or about the following people: John Jacob Astor, Kamehameha, Robert Gray, Alexander McKay, Captain Cook, John Thompson, James Otis.
- Includes materials about the following organisations: Pacific Mail Steamship Company; Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Company; Russian American Company; North-West Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Alaska Commercial Company; Northern Commercial Company; Northern Navigation Company; Henshaw, Ward and Company; Bryant, Sturgis and Company; New York and California Aurelian Company; Hotchkiss & Bros.; Russell and Company; Fremont Mining & Trading Company.
- California Historical Society
Subjects
- California -- Description and travel.
- California -- Gold discoveries.
- Northwest, Pacific -- Description and travel.
- Islands of the Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.
- Fur trade -- United States.
- Shipping -- California.
- Seafaring life -- Pacific Ocean.
- Merchant mariners -- United States.
- United States -- Commerce -- China.
- China -- Commerce -- United States.
- Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1813-1854.
- Fur trade -- United States -- History -- Sources.
- Navigation -- Pacific Ocean -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- Voyages to the Pacific coast -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- California -- History -- To 1846 -- Sources.
- California -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources.