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First Steamship Pioneers / edited by a committee of the association.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steam-navigation--Pacific Ocean.
- Steam-navigation.
- Steamboats--California.
- Steamboats.
- Pioneers--California.
- Pioneers.
- Voyages to the Pacific coast.
- California--Description and travel.
- California.
- California--History--1846-1850.
- California--History--1850-1950.
- California--Biography.
- First Steamship Pioneers.
- Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
- California (Steamship).
- Falcon (Steamboat).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([5], viii, 393 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif. : H.S. Crocker & Co. printers, c1874]
- Contents:
- Steam navigation in the Pacific
- Pacific Mail Steamship Company
- New York to Chagres per steamer "Falcon"
- From Chagres to Panama
- New York to Panama via Straits of Magellan
- San Francisco in 1849
- Country and climate
- Earlier pioneers
- Memorigraphia
- California in 1849 and California in 1874.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "This book originated in the fraternal sentiments of the association whose name it bears, and a desire to place on permanent record some of the stirring events with which these men had been connected since their arrival in California ..."--p. [i]. The "Notes introductory" is signed on p. viii: The Editing Committee. San Francisco, February 28th, 1874.
- Issued in observance of the 25th anniversary of the inaugural trip of the steamship California.
- Imprint from printer's device on t.p., verso.
- "100 copies were printed."--Cowan, R.E. A bibliography of the history of California ... 1952, p. 37.
- Printed in sepia with red rule bordering each page. The title page includes an additional border in gilt. Ten pages include the red border but are otherwise blank.
- "Ten photographs, historic in character, were intended to accompany the work, but are rarely to be found. ..."--Cowan. According to the introductory notes, the photographic illustrations were from the house of Bradley & Rulofson.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 86019.
- OCLC:
- 11
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