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Reasons against matrimony; : being a survey of the isle of marriage. Or, a new and accurate description of all the provinces, districts, ports, towns, rivers, policy, and governments, of that vast and populous country: containing a particular account of its various inhabitants, under the following heads: the discreet, the prudes, the ill-matched, the ill-at-ease, the jealous, the cuckolds, whether contented, frantick, imaginary, or incredulous; and the inhabitants of the two little districts of divorce and widowhood; as also some remarks on the two islands of polygamy, and of love. With useful directions and cautions how to avoid the many dangerous precipices, torrents, morasses and quicksands, wherewith the island of marriage abounds, and wherein so many thousands who have undertaken the voyage, have miserably perish'd. To which is prefix'd a dissuasive from matrimony, in an epistle dedicatory to Caelia
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The 282 photographic prints in this collection document voyages of the United States Revenue Cutters "Bear," "Corwin," and "Richard Rush" to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the boats, Captain Michael A. Healy, Frank A. Healy (Healy's son), the crewmen of the afore-mentioned revenue cutters; Alaskan natives and their homes; and various views of the Alaskan wilderness and towns. The collection provides insight into the people and events the "Bear" and "Corwin" encountered on their voyages while under the command of Healy. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; whaling ships; ice fields in the Arctic Ocean; J.B. Vincent, a survivor of the shipwrecked "Napoleon"; Francis "Frank" Fuller, murderer of Archbishop Charles John Seghers; Alaskan native umiaks and various artifacts; and reindeer stations. Photographers who contributed to this collection include H.W. Bradley, Edward DeGroff, Lt. C.D. Kennedy of the USRC Maine, Geoff Knight, William H. Rulofson, and I.W. Taber. See also photCL 97 for related photographs concerning the "Corwin". The photographs were originally part of the Huntington's Manuscripts collection for Papers of Michael A. Healy, 1881-1900, call number mssHM 47577-47618.
photCL 131