Visual Materials
The steamship "Constitution" leaving Boston with troops on General Butler's Southern Expedition
You might also be interested in
Image not available
The steamship "Constitution" leaving Boston with troops on General Butler's Southern Expedition
Visual Materials
Artists: C.P. Publishers: Harper's Weekly Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
priJHK 00821
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's through line to California, touching at Mexican Ports, and carrying the U.S. Mail
Visual Materials
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.
priJHK 00555
Sunday service on board a Pacific Mail steamship
Visual Materials
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.
priJHK 00571
Wreck of the steamship Tennessee, at San Francisco, Cal
Visual Materials
"264 Illustrated News [April 23, 1853"--across top of the page. "15--"--on frame mat. The image is of the first Tennessee operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; built in 1849, she was purchased in October, 1849, from the Savannah Steam Navigation Company; from 1850 to 1853, she operated between San Francisco and Panama; she was wrecked on 6 March 1853, at Bolinas Bay, four miles north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Focus of item: Tennessee.
priJHK 00617
Image not available
Photographic portrait album of United States Naval Academy personnel and USS Constitution crew
Visual Materials
An album with 15 carte-de-visite studio portraits of officers and midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy and USS Constitution. Among the officers and crew included are Naval Academy Superintendent George Smith Blake, Edward P. Lull, Charles L. Huntington, and USS Constitution boatswain's mate Thomas ("Old Tom") Hunter, midshipmen Bowman H. McCalla (entered the Academy in 1861, graduated November 1864), Charles H. Stockton (entered 1861, graduated October 1865), C.P. Griswold, and L.M. Albright. The album includes handwritten labels loosely inserted into some of the frames, often with the names and hometowns of other midshipmen. The frame on page 2 is empty and contains an inserted paper strip labeled "Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, New York." The album is inscribed on the title page in the same hand as the paper labels "From George to Mary".
photCL 46
Bill of Lading : Steamship Colon
Visual Materials
Block print of a PMSSCO vessel in letter head to the left; size is for this small image. Printed form with manuscript additions and notations. Bill of lading also covers trans-shipment of the cargo across the Isthmus of Panama on the Panama Railroad Company. Focus of item: Colon.
priJHK 00575