Pacific Mail Steamship Company journal and logbook : ms., 1883-1885.

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company journal and logbook : ms., 1883-1885.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26631937

Journal (Jan. 14-Feb. 4, 1883) kept by an agent of the Company, covering part of a trip to collect data concerning business possibilities along the Gulf of Mexico; written aboard the Colima and the Sonora in the Bay of Mazatlan and at nearby points. Logbook (Aug. 11, 1884-July 29, 1885) for voyages of the Colon between New York and Aspinwall.

Originals : [242] p. ; 26 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (130 exposures) : negative (Rich. 486:9) and positive.

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Sonora (Ship : 1854-1874)

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Colima (Steamship)

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...

Colon (Steamship)

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Kofoid, Charles A. (Charles Atwood), 1865-1947

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Charles A. Kofoid was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Charles A. Kofoid correspondence : additions, 1928-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26872497 Charles Atwood Kofoid was born in 1865 in Granville, Putnam County, Illinois. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College in 1890, A.M. Harvard, 1892, PhD Harvard, 1894. He married Prudence Winter, a fellow student at Obe...