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100 1 _aCalkin, Milo,
_d1810-1872.
245 0 0 _aMilo Calkin papers,
_f1833-1953
_g(bulk 1833-1842).
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506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aPhotocopy and transcript of journal kept by Calkin as a carpenter aboard the whaling ship, Independence, on its voyage from Nantucket, Mass., to the South Pacific Ocean. Calkin made the trip on the advice of his physician as a cure for asthma. Includes description and sketches of whaling, shipwreck on Starbuck Island (Kirihati), subsequent boat trip to Rarotonga (Cook Islands) and Hawaii, Calkin's years in Hawaii as a clerk in a mercantile firm, and his return to the U.S. (1842). Also includes an introduction to the journal written in 1953 by George Boland Eckhart, biographical information concerning Calkin, and a map (1952).
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Huntington Library.
_bSan Marino, Calif.
535 1 _aCalifornia: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino
545 0 _aBusinessman, librarian, and shipwright.
546 _aCollection material in English.
610 2 0 _aIndependence (Whaling ship)
650 0 _aAsthma.
650 0 _aShipwrecks
_zKiribati
_zStarbuck Islands.
650 0 _aVoyages and travels.
650 0 _aWhaling
_zMassachusetts.
650 0 _aWhaling
_zSouth Pacific Ocean.
651 0 _aHawaii
_xCommerce.
651 0 _aHawaii
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aNantucket (Mass.)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aRarotonga (Cook Islands)
_xDescription and travel.
656 7 _aBusinessmen.
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656 7 _aLibrarians.
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656 7 _aShipwrights.
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700 1 _aEckhart, George Boland,
_d1897-
_tGeorge Boland Eckhart papers.
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