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Massachusetts -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Rodman and William Logan Fisher correspondence

 File — Box Multi-collection box: [Barcode: 31116021976540]
Identifier: 003-02-29

Charles Henry Wilbur papers

 File — Box Multi-collection Box : [Barcode: 31116021976383]
Identifier: 003-02-16
Scope and Contents This collection includes 69 letters to and from Wilbur, his mother, sister and brother in law, his friends, and two whaling agents, as well as a variety of other people involved in the life and death of this whaleman from New Jersey. The correspondence in this collection begins during Wilbur’s naval service in 1864 and continues through his whaling career and into the next generation of his sister's family, ending in 1916. It includes correspondence between members of his family and the U....
Dates: 1843 - 1916