William H. Meyers diary

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{"value"=>"MssCol 1986", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"1986", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"William H. Meyers diary"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1838-1839", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1838/1839"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 v. (36 tipped-in leaves)"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"32 ill. (watercolor drawings)"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"36 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1838

date_inclusive_end

1839

origination

{"value"=>"Meyers, William H., b. 1815", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>William H. Meyers (b. 1815), a native of Philadelphia, sailed on merchant vessels, worked at the U.S. Naval Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and served as a gunner in the U.S. Navy.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Meyers' illustrated diary (17 Oct. 1838-4 Mar. 1839) records his voyages from: Philadelphia to Baltimore and Cuba (with visits to Xibara and Santiago de Cuba) on the schooner Ajax; Santiago de Cuba to Nassau, Bahamas, as master of the brig Lucy; and Nassau to New York as a passenger on the brig Victress, noting his later return to Philadelphia. The diary, which functions as a ship's log for the Lucy, includes accounts of his visit to a Cuban plantation and his illness from yellow fever, and poetic tributes to women encountered in his travels. Watercolor drawings (one in ink wash) illustrate ships at sea, localities visited, entertainments, shipboard activities and illness at sea.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS"}

{"method"=>"Gift of", "source"=>"Worthington C. Ford and Paul Leicester Ford as part of the Ford Collection", "value"=>"Gift of, Worthington C. Ford and Paul Leicester Ford as part of the Ford Collection"}

altformavail

{"value"=>"<p>Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-219</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p>Illustrations also available as digital images</p>"}

bibliography

{"value"=>"<p>Walton, Terry. \"A Not-So-Ordinary Seaman : Intimate pages from the Diary of William H. Meyers, on board and ashore, 1838-39.\" Seaport : The magazine of South Street Seaport Museum (Summer 1979): 22-27</p>"}

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1838

prefercite

{"value"=>"William H. Meyers diary, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"William H. Meyers (b. 1815), a native of Philadelphia, sailed on merchant vessels, worked at the U.S. Naval Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and served as a gunner in the U.S. Navy. Meyers' illustrated diary (17 Oct. 1838-4 Mar. 1839) records his voyages from: Philadelphia to Baltimore and Cuba (with visits to Xibara and Santiago de Cuba) on the schooner Ajax; Santiago de Cuba to Nassau, Bahamas, as master of the brig Lucy; and Nassau to New York as a passenger on the brig Victress, noting his later return to Philadelphia. The diary, which functions as a ship's log for the Lucy, includes accounts of his visit to a Cuban plantation and his illness from yellow fever, and poetic tributes to women encountered in his travels. Watercolor drawings (one in ink wash) illustrate ships at sea, localities visited, entertainments, shipboard activities and illness at sea.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 v. (36 tipped-in leaves) : 32 ill. (watercolor drawings) ; 36 cm

date_start

1838

date_end

1839

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