Found 3 collections related to Lumber trade

This logbook was kept on board the Walter H. Thorndike, a merchant ship out of Rockland, Maine, between July 8, 1867 and May 3, 1868 during trips between Rockland, the Delaware breakwater, Philadelphia, Salem, New York, Jamaica, and Cuba. The ship carried cargoes of granite, lumber, and other items less

Phelps, Dodge & Co. was founded by Anson G. Phelps in 1834 as the successor to the firm of Phelps and Peck of New York City, the leading importer of metals in the U.S. The company imported metals, mainly tin, from Great Britain and distributed them throughout the U.S., and exported cotton to England. In addition to the metal trade, Phelps & Dodge invested in the lumber industry, brass, copper and iron manufacturing, iron mining, railroads, real estate, and banking. In 1883 the firm purchased copper mines in Arizona and was transformed into one of the nation's foremost mining companies, dealing in the mining, smelting, refining, and manufacturing of copper. In 1917 the assets of the firm were acquired by Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. and the name was changed to Phelps Dodge Corporation. Collection consists of incoming correspondence, financial and legal documents of Phelps and Peck, 1818-1834, and its successor Phelps, Dodge & Co., 1834-1869. Letters are from commission agents, customers, suppliers, and those concerned with the firm's manufacturing, lumber, real estate, railroad, and banking interests. In addition, there are letters from Daniel James of Phelps, James & Co., the firm's branch in Liverpool, England, discussing the British side of the business; letters pertaining to the estate of Anson G. Phelps; and some family correspondence. Financial and legal records include accounts of sales of Phelps, Dodge & Co. goods, invoices, receipts, 1818-1865; copies of partnership agreements, 1834-1882; the will of Anson G. Phelps; and account books, bank books and memoranda books, 1831-1864. less

This log book of the May Flower consists of two logs bound together, one dated February 29, 1859-July 20, 1860 and the other dated September 18, 1860-October 7, 1861. James T. Seaver, a seaman of Chelsea, Massachusetts, kept the logs and William Chatfield was Master of the ship The May Flower left Boston on February 29, 1859 and arrived at San Francisco on August 1, 1859, going thence to Port Gamble in the Puget Sound and stopping at Taltal, Caldera, Valparaiso, and Talcahuano, Chile on the return trip, which ended in New York on July 20, 1860. Lumber, which was taken on board in the Puget Sound, was discharged at Valparaiso where copper, iron, bricks, wool, sugar, and other goods were received The second log begins September 18, 1860, when the May Flower left Boston for Bombay, where it arrived on February 23, 1861, going from there to Calcutta whence it sailed on the return trip June 4, 1861 and arrived at Boston on October 7, 1861 less