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San Marino, CA 91108
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Captain Kiddle
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The materials of the collection are arranged chronologically. There are ten pieces of correspondence, six of which relate to particular voyages and four are letters from John M. Cavalry to his daughter. The Scrapbook Pages are also filled with correspondence relating to Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The other scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers regarding voyages, ships, and amusing anecdotes. The Bound Scrapbook used to be a ship's log and there are pages that are not covered in newspaper clippings. The photographs include one photograph of the John M. Cavarly, a photograph of the steamer "City of New York," and a photograph of her officers, including Captain Cavarly. The manuscript, Annie's captain, is a work of fiction about the lives of John M. Cavarly, his wife and their family based upon some of the materials in this collection and those held in the Kathryn Hulme Collection in Yale University Library. Subjects in the collection include: the CSA Florida; John Newland Maffitt; United States mail steamers; Pacific Mail Steamship Company; sailing anecdotes; ship captains and their spouses; steamboats and steamboat disasters; Steamboat lines to China; Steamboat lines of the Pacific Ocean; and United States Civil War naval operations.
mssCavarly
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Rare Books
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