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441161
  • Title
    Whaling logbooks and other documents, 1795-1870
  • Call number
    PMB 226
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    441161
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 226
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 cm
  • Scope and Content
    Logbooks of the following whaling ships: Rose, 1803-1804; Fortune, 1829-1832; Charlestown, 1795; Hercules, 1797; Favourite, 1799; Conch, 1834; Margaret, 1835; and Lady Adams, 1804. Also includes a typescript copy of the diary of John Hunt, 1839-1941; card index for entries whales to whaling of the Atheneum Library, Nantucket; record of Husseys and Carys of Nantucket, 1953 by Edith Folger Caldwell (nee Cary); account book and portrait of James Cary; and a catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages, 1815 to 1870, by Hussey and Robinson of Nantucket (published 1876)
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 226
    Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
    No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the permission of the holding individuals
    Robert Langdon, ed. American whalers and traders in the Pacific, 1978; and Robert Langdon, ed. Where the whalers went, 1984
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