US Mail Steam Ship Company Collection, 1848-1868.

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US Mail Steam Ship Company Collection, 1848-1868.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/480072075

The series consists of letterbooks (both transcribed and letterpress copies) of Marshall O. Roberts, New York agent for the US Mail Steam Ship Company; logs of ships on voyages between New York and Panama via New Orleans and Havana, and from Panama to California; and both blank and completed tickets and contracts for passage aboard various ships on US Mail Steamship Company and other company's vessels on these routes.

2 linear ft. (1 box, 19 v.)

New-York Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7587897

New-York Historical Society Library

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