Daniel B. Foster papers, 1850-1873.

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Daniel B. Foster papers, 1850-1873.

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Includes record of daily menus on steamer Panama (1850) sailing between San Francisco and Panama; shipboard diary of Daniel B. Foster (1872-1873) sailing from Astoria, Oregon to Honolulu and back; and, a letter from Edwin Hitchcock, Norwich, Conn., to Daniel B. Foster, San Francisco (April 8, 1850).

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University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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Foster family.

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Panama (Steamship)

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Foster, Daniel G.

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Daniel B. Foster was a ship's carpenter who came to San Francisco, Calif. from Norwich, Conn. sometime before 1850. He traveled south to the Isthmus of Panama in the winter of 1850 aboard the SS Panama. Foster kept an inventory of menus for all meals served on this voyage. He must have returned north aboard the same ship (probably as a common seaman), for, in San Francisco, he received a letter from Edwin Hitchcock of Norwich, Conn. dated April 8, 1850. Foster's name appears in San Francisco dir...

Foster, Jacob, 1732-1798

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Jane A. Falkenburgh (Steamship)

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Hitchcock, Edwin S., 1834-1862

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