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Steamship list A. 1941
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, trans-Pacific sailing list and calendar, 1898
Visual Materials
The broadside from Pacific Mail Steamship Company is in Chinese and provides information on the schedule between San Francisco - Hong Kong and Hong Kong - San Francisco; at the top of the broadside is a Chinese calendar; next to, and below, the calendar are advertisements for various companies; below the advertisements is the schedule for the vessels and connecting trains in San Francisco; the names of eight PMSSCO vessels have been translated into Chinese, including the Peru and the Peking. "10/74 ca. 1880 MKS 95"--top right corner, in ms., in pencil. "1898 RyRxo 200-"--on mat, lower right corner, in ms., in pencil.
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