Logbook of U.S.S. Adams from San Francisco, California around Central and South America

Item — Folder: 1

Identifier: aa00181

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This logbook relates a voyage of the U.S.S. Adams from San Francisco, California around the Pacific coasts of Central and South America from December 1, 1879 to February 23, 1881 kept by one of its officers, John H. Gibbons. Within the logbook are detailed sketches of the ship’s decks as well as detailed descriptions of the ship’s technical parts, equipment, supplies, and crew. The journal entries describe daily activities aboard ship, some routine and others observatory.

Dates

Creation: 1879 - 1881

Creator

From the Collection: Gibbons, John H. (Person)

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Extent

From the Collection: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

As part of the Americas Project, which was a large scale digitization project, Woodson digitized this book as well as the plates. Because of their duplication elsewhere and issues with scanning quality, these have been removed from our digital collections site. You can request the plate jpgs by using its unique identifier aa00181.