American Activities in Central Pacific 1790-1870

Dodge, Ernest (1966). Ward, Gerard (ed.). American Activities in Central Pacific 1790-1870. 1–5. Ridgewood: The Gregg Press.

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Abstract: American activities in the central Pacific, 1790-1870 : a history, geography, and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers etc. / edited by R. Gerard Ward with an introduction by by Ernest S. Dodge. A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers etc. The material on which these volumes are based, consists of over 6,700 quarto pages of single-spaced typescript. Virtually all are carbon copies on very thin paper. In general the legibility is fair and although the typescript is often blurred, it is very rare for a line to be indecipherable. For many years the typescript has been held by the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., where it was bound in 17 loose-- leaf files with the reports arranged in alphabetical order, by name of island or vessel referred to in the text. Most of the reports, which, when duplicates and similar ac- counts from different sources are removed, number over 2,000, are taken from newspapers held in Massachusetts libraries. The majority of the reports were published in Massachusetts, but some were derived from papers published in Honolulu, San Francisco, New York , Washington and other centers. A few reports consist of articles from periodicals and one is made up of short extracts from a book. Although, over 1,000 log books were apparently scanned by project workers, no material from these is to be found in the extant typescript. The time span covered by the project was initially 1790 to 1870 and the majority of the reports fall within these limits, but a few are dated -between 1871 and 1877. Similarly, although the geographical limits of the project were supposedly carefully defined and restricted to the 'Central Pacific,' many reports deal with islands and localities in other parts of the Pacific Basin. Due to faulty identification by project workers, approximately 60 reports are included which deal with islands in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans, and these are printed as an appendix in the last volume of this work

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DOI: 10.2307/363177
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