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Logbook kept aboard the schooner Arabia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0164
Abstract
This logbook chronicles the voyage of the fishing schooner Arabia from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the Western Banks of Newfoundland in September 1908.
Dates:
1908
John W. Jordan, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0025
Abstract
John Woolf Jordan (1840-1921) was a Philadelphia historian specializing in genealogies and personal histories, especially those of Pennsylvania families. This scrapbook comprises a single volume containing clippings of John W. Jordan's travel narrative, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" from an unknown publication; also included are picture postcards and photographic illustrations of the ships on which he traveled and locations he visited, several of which are accompanied by...
Dates:
1911