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Field name | Value |
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Title | Correspondence and Account Documents from The Alaska Commercial Company, 1897. Folder I |
Library | University of California, San Diego |
Collection | Alaska Commercial Company Records |
Date | 1897 |
Description | Materials include 34 letters [59 pages] written from early March to 12 October 1897 between agents Otto W Carlson at Unga, R T Lying and James M Wilson at St. Michael, and company representatives N Gray and Rudolph Neumann at Unalaska. The letters contain orders for merchandise, accounts of fur pelts shipped, and general accounts. |
Document Type | Manuscript, Correspondence |
Theme(s) | Employment and Labour; Trade and Commerce; Transport and Communication |
Keywords | commerce, death, fur trade, merchant, skins, steamship, trade, transportation, voyage |
Countries | USA |
Places | Alaska; San Francisco; Unalaska |
Company | Alaska Commercial Company; Apollo Consolidated Mining Company; Russian American Company |
Additional Information | The Alaska Commercial Company was a San Francisco based company which bought out the assets of the Russian-American Company in 1867. The company supported the Alaskan fur trade by providing steamship transportation, general merchandising, and other commercial and financial services. The company had offices at Unalaska on Unalaska Island, at Unga on Unga Island, and at St. Michael on the west coast of Alaska in the Norton Sound. |
Copyright | University of California, San Diego |