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Diary, 1849.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Samuel W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Selma (Steamboat).
- Commerce.
- Diaries.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Latitude.
- Longitude.
- Sailors.
- Seafaring life.
- Ships.
- Storms.
- Voyages and travels.
- Weather.
- Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Cabo Verde--São Vicente Island.
- California.
- Caribbean Area.
- Chile--Cape Horn.
- Chile--Valparaíso.
- Pacific Ocean.
- Panama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1849.
- Summary:
- Diary (181 p.) handbound in six sections, describing Brown's voyage from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn aboard the bark Selma with the Fremont Mining and Trading Company, of which he served as chairman of the board. The diary focuses on daily shipboard life and problems with crew members.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MS 236, folder 1
- Brown was a Californian forty-niner and physician from Connecticut.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue.
- Collection: Samuel W Brown Diary and Letters
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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