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Description:: Dates of execution from Elizabeth Marsh's journal, dated, presumably in her own hand, Dec. 13, 1774-June 20, 1776. Bound with a copy of her captivity narrative in the hand of her brother John Marsh. The captivity narrative, an account of the seven months in 1756 she was held in Morocco as prisoner of the sultan Sidi Muhammad, has title "Narrative written by Miss Elizabeth Marsh during her captivity in Barbary in the year 1756."
Date:: 1756-1775
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Description:: Full title:A journal of a voyage to the South seas, in His Majesty’s ship the Endeavor: faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Prksin, draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, Remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke
Date:: 1784
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Description:: In most of the manuscript, text is only written on one side of each page.
Date:: 1796
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Description:: Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco carrying units of Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st New York Volunteer Regiment to participate in the military conquest of California. Included are descriptions of life aboard the vessel, in San Francisco and at Santa Barbara, where the troops were on garrison duty.
Date:: September 26, 1846-July 3, 1847
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: 1852
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Description:: "Books referred to for illustrations, literary and pictorial": 1 p. preceding pl. LXXIV.
Date:: 1856
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: circa 1864
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

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