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A A Low & Brothers : correspondence and accounts.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houqua (Ship).
- Russell & Co.
- Bills of lading.
- Commercial products.
- Freight and freightage.
- Prices.
- Ships--Cargo.
- Silk.
- Voyages and travels.
- China--Guangzhou.
- China--Hong Kong.
- China--Shanghai.
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1844-1884.
- Summary:
- Correspondence and shipping papers, mostly to do with the famous ship Houqua.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MSS 193, box 1, folder 3
- Collection: Low Family Papers
- Seth Low (1782-1853) was a Salem merchant who moved to New York in 1829 and established Seth Low and Company, a prosperous shipping firm. His son Abiel Abbot Low (1811-1893) founded a company under his own name, A A Low and Brothers, which specialised in the China trade. Another son, Edward Allen Low (1817-1898), worked for Russell and Company in Canton.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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