Includes transcript, 2 page document. "Copy of Portage Bill for Sloop Venus John Tanner Master for the West Indies." "Crew members include: Samuel Lawton, Mate; Joseph Allen, Sailor; Joseph Briggs, Cooper; and 'Quash', a negroe belonging to Elisha Shearman"
Political Tract: Tremont, Ma: New England Free Press, 1969. First Edition Thus. Quarto. Stapled Pictorial paper wrappers; "This work which was originally prepared by the Puerto Rican Youth Movement in 1965 was revised in some of its parts in January 1969".
"Quarto blank book. 60 spirit-duplicated(?) pages printed in purple ink on both sides of 30 leaves. Many illustrations from commercial or other printed sources, postcards, and one original gelatin silver photograph inserted. Early but not original canvas spine reinforcement and marbled paper-covered boards with 'Panama' hand-inked on the front board...A detailed account of the history, business, and construction of the Panama Canal written during the construction by American crews. Close observations of the construction and conditions obviously made first hand, and concluded while construction of the canal was still underway. while the author remains unknown, it seems he (gender from context) had some knowledge of engineering, as well as a close eye for both the locale and local inhabitants. While the narrator often mentions his physical presence at the construction, likely as a member of the construction crew, he gives very few other hints as to his identity, although a closer reading of the text might reveal additional hints. As the narrative concludes, with a tribute to the men involved in the construction, it is clear that the Canal project was well along but as yet incomplete. The American construction (building on an earlier failed French attempt) occupied the years 1904-1914, the narration informing our attribution of the date to around 1910. However, as with the author's identity, a closer reading could certainly narrow the timeframe of the narrative." –Description from Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
"An early record of affluent North American travel to Jamaica, recording a couple’s trip to the The Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891. The exhibition is widely considered to mark the birth of the island’s tourist industry. The exhibition was modeled on the London Great Exhibition of 1851. Its purpose was to boost the fledgling local economy, which had suffered due to a combination of declining sugar imports and a slow start to the new banana export industry. This trip begins aboard the Steamer Adirondack. The couple arrives on February 7th and stays at the newly-built Constant Spring Hotel in Kingston, visiting the exhibition a few days later. The following week they travel to Porus, Mandeville, and Spanish Town and then back to Kingston. They then disembark on a cruise around the island on March 3, stopping at several ports such as Port Antonio and Montego Bay. The tone is generally smarmy and sarcastic, and the woman is not impressed by the island’s infrastructure. Jamaicans are generally portrayed as lazy and inferior in work ethic to Americans. The tone around the tourism trade is dismissive and gossipy: 'Jamaican hotels will have to get a better class of Yankees to run their hotels than they have done, if they want much of a reputation. Mr. Merritt, former manager of the Constant Spring, lost his place the first of January for poor management and...the manager at Myrtle Bank dethroned because of his grossly immoral tendencies' - p. 65. She repeats the rumor, common at the time, that the exhibition is a trick to enslave the locals: 'it is some trick to reduce them to slavery again...The exit whisks them away to slavery and they are seen no more.' - p. 69. The work is unsigned, but the author could have been Mary Elizabeth Blake Bushnell (1823-1916), who was married to the Reverend George Bushnell, a Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut. The journal mentions several New Haven streets. The journal appears to have been intended only for circulation among family. A handwritten note on the first leaf reads 'Auntie from Grace.' –Description from Auger Down Books, bookseller
Six typed sheets, detailing the writer's superstitious and supernatural beliefs regarding "voodoo."
"Elizabeth McConaughey Wassell, 1859-1923, was married to a lawyer in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was a founder of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and quite active in the Women's Suffrage Movement in Arkansas. This article was published on the "News of the Arkansas Federation of Women's Club page in the May 20, 1917 issue of The Arkansas Gazette." –Description from McBlain Books
4530. Demise of Hampden Estate (formerly Windsor), Tobago, from Trustees of John Glover deceased to Donald and Mary Brodie. 7 folio sheets, joined at foot with 2 seals; Most sheets contain lists of slaves.
4531. Includes Slaves and stock. From General Hay and trustees to Alexander Gordon. 17 membranes of vellum, with 8 seals. Most sheets contain lists of slaves. 23 November 1824.
Includes typed and written transcriptions for the remaining membranes of vellum. Transcriptions completed in 1985. Cross-referenced examples, as seen above in other folders.
4515 K - 1790-1860. #4524 A - 1810. #4524 C - 1813. #4524 D - 1808. #4508 A/B - 1768. #4508 C - 1814. #4525 - 1812. #4523 A - 1805. #4523 B - 1811. #4523 C - 1858.
