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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, trans-Pacific sailing list and calendar, 1898
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["Pacific Mail Steamship Company[,] trans-Pacific sailing list and calendar, 1898]
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Publishers: Brown & Bley Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Steamer Tennessee
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Cabin Plan of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co's. new twin screw steamships, Transpacific service,"Manchuria" & "Mongolia"
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The plans for the decks show passenger accommodations, including steerage,labeled "Asiatic Passengers or Cargo", along with public spaces, such as the dining saloon, social room and smoking room. Measurements for the vessels are printed beneath the title. Key for cabin plan printed below title and vessel measurements. Cabin plan is similar to ephKMSP 050, with slight changes such as "Steerage - Chinese" to "Asiatic Passengers" and the addition of a key for the staterooms. Once folded, now laid flat. "40593 Pacific Mail S/S Co "Manchuria"-"Mongolia"'--on verso, in ms., in pencil. "National Bond"--watermark. Focus of item: Manchuria ; Mongolia.
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Sunday service on board a Pacific Mail steamship
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Image depicts a man holding a book and apparently preaching to Chinese immigrants. "Our engraving on page 461 is from a sketch made by our artist on board one of the Pacific Mail steams ships that ply between San Francisco and the various ports of Japan. There is hardly a steam ship on any ocean with out a clergyman among her passengers, and he is generally invited to conduct service on Sundays..."--on verso, printed text from p. 462.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company's through line to California, touching at Mexican Ports, and carrying the U.S. Mail
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Date is determined by the vessels listed in the print; the "Steamships on the Atlantic" are the Arizona, Henry Chauncey, New York, Rising Star, Ocean Queen, and Northern Light; the list of vessels on the Pacific are the Golden City, Montana, Constitution, Sacramento, Golden Age, and St. Louis.
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