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An American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia: A Series of Letters
written by George Francis Train, 1829-1904 (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1857), 521 page(s)
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written by George Francis Train, 1829-1904 (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1857), 521 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
George Francis Train, 1829-1904
Date Published / Released
1857
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Person Discussed
George Francis Train, 1829-1904
Topic / Theme
International travel, Family and Culture, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Arctic Mood: A Narrative of Arctic Adventures
written by Eva Louise Alvey Richards (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1949), 282 page(s)
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written by Eva Louise Alvey Richards (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1949), 282 page(s)
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography, Letter
Author / Creator
Eva Louise Alvey Richards
Date Published / Released
1949
Publisher
Caxton Printers
Topic / Theme
Education, Frontier and pioneer life
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1949, Eva Louise Alvey Richards
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The Black Panther, vol. 13, no. 26:1-26 (August 18, 1975)
in Black Panther, 13 no. 26:1-26 (August 18, 1975) (San Francisco, CA: Black Panthers, 1975), 26 page(s)
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in Black Panther, 13 no. 26:1-26 (August 18, 1975) (San Francisco, CA: Black Panthers, 1975), 26 page(s)
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Essay
Date Published / Released
1975
Publisher
Black Panthers
Series
Black Panther
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1975 by Huey P. Newton. Reproduced by permission of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, Inc.
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Communication from the secretary of the Treasury: transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 8, 1851, the report o...
written by Israel Andrews, in Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (08 March 1851) (District of Columbia, 1853, originally published 1853), 201 page(s)
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written by Israel Andrews, in Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (08 March 1851) (District of Columbia, 1853, originally published 1853), 201 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
08 March 1851, 1851
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Israel Andrews
Date Published / Released
1853
Topic / Theme
Canada and the United States Border, Fisheries, Natural resources, Cotton, Trade and commerce, Colonization, History, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Copyright Message
Material sourced from Senate House Library, University of London. Copyright © The University of London.
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Early Western Travels, vol. 28: Part I of Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, Etc., May 21-October 16, 1839
edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913 (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1904), 380 page(s)
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edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913 (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1904), 380 page(s)
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913
Date Published / Released
1904
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Co.
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Nature, Geophysical features
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Early Western Travels, vol. 29: Part II of Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, Etc., October 21-December 4, 1839: De Smet's Ore...
edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913 (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1904), 424 page(s)
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edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913 (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1904), 424 page(s)
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1853-1913
Date Published / Released
1904
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Co.
Topic / Theme
American Indians
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Images of America, Alaska's Whaling Coast
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through...
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whaling—in fact, their entire livelihood—would be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5...
In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whaling—in fact, their entire livelihood—would be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, a new type of whaling using modern steel whale-catchers and harpoon cannons appeared along the Alaskan coast. Yet the Inuit and Inupiat continue whaling today from approximately 15 small towns scattered along the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. Whaling for these people is a life-or-death proposition in a land considered uninhabitable by many, for without the whale, whole villages probably could not survive as they have for centuries.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Images of America
Topic / Theme
Maritime commerce, Whaling
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 by Dale Vinnedge
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Images of America, California's Whaling Coast
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual ex...
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual extinction due to over-fishing. Small whaling operations from California, called shore whaling, continued from the 1850s until Secretary...
Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual extinction due to over-fishing. Small whaling operations from California, called shore whaling, continued from the 1850s until Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans (1969–1972) whistled down the industry in 1971.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Images of America
Topic / Theme
Maritime commerce, Whales, Whaling
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 by Dale Vinnedge
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Images of America, The Port of Los Angeles
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 128 page(s),
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The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world’s largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the firs...
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 128 page(s),
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The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world’s largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the 1850s. The bay’s namesake village expanded from...
The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world’s largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the 1850s. The bay’s namesake village expanded from a backwater loading point for raw cattle hides to a deepwater harbor rivaling and eventually surpassing San Francisco as the busiest port on the U.S. Pacific coast, and would later become the nation’s largest container port. Political battles in far-off Washington, D.C., economic booms and depressions, world wars, and billions of tons of cargo and material later, the Port of Los Angeles remains America’s premier revolving door for trade with markets around the world.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Images of America
Topic / Theme
Seaports
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Michael D. White
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Indian Pioneer History Collection, vol. 1
written by United States. Work Projects Administration; edited by Grant Foreman, 1869-1953 , 495 page(s)
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written by United States. Work Projects Administration; edited by Grant Foreman, 1869-1953 , 495 page(s)
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history
Contributor
Grant Foreman, 1869-1953
Author / Creator
United States. Work Projects Administration
Topic / Theme
Settlements
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