01873cam a22003251  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017007001500034008004100049010001700090040001900107043001200126050001400138245003600152260005500188300001800243500003600261500006800297520072400365505013001089530007201219540004201291651003401333651002501367650002601392700003301418700002301451856005601474999001701530rc 01000777 DLC20260227111901.0cr |||||||||||820513s1874    mau           000 0 eng    arc 01000777   aDLCcCarPdDLC  an-us-ca00aF865b.E200aEarly voyages to California ...  a[Salem, Mass.,bPrinted at the Salem press,c1874]  a32 p.c24 cm.  aEach part has also special t.p.  a"From Essex institute historical collections, vol. XII, no. 2."  aAlbert Peabody (1806-1879) and John Eagleston were Salem, Massachusetts merchants who sailed to California in the last months of 1848 to exploit the market for Eastern goods among the miners. Early voyages to California (1874) reprints two pieces from the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. In the first, Peabody describes his December 1848 sailing with a cargo of foodstuffs and mining tools for the California gold camps, where he remained until 1851. Highlights include a voyage round the Horn and business life in San Francisco and Sacramento. In the second, Eagleston recounts his voyage in October 1848 and his brief stay in San Francisco to sell his cargo before returning east in the summer of 1849.0 aThe early days and rapid growth of California, by Alfred Peabody -- Account of an early California voyage, by J.H. Eagleston.  aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.  aNo known restrictions on publication. 0aCaliforniaxGold discoveries. 0aCaliforniaxHistory. 0aBusinesszCalifornia.1 aPeabody, Alfred,d1806-1879.1 aEagleston, John H.41dcalbkf175qtuhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.175  c51900d51900