Alexander Lyman Churchill papers, 1865-1908.

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Alexander Lyman Churchill papers, 1865-1908.

Diary, 1855-1886, kept while engineer on U.S. Revenue cutter Bear, New York to Valparaiso and the Arctic; related vouchers and accounts; and letters from the U.S. Dept. of Treasury written by W.E. Chandler, G.S. Boutwell and others, and from the office of the consulting engineer of the U.S. Revenue Marine, many written by Charles E. Emery.

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