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Title Ship Sailing Cards: Mc-O
Reference MSS 470, box 7
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Clipper Ship Sailing Cards Collection
Date 1857-1894
Description A selection of cards advertising the voyages of multiple ships. Information includes the name of the ship, the port of origin, its destination, the company, and the master of the ship. Sailing ship cards were printed to inform prospective passengers and freight shippers of a vessel's impending departure.
Document Type Ephemera, Advertisement
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce; Advertising and Consumption
Keywords freight, voyage, vessel, passengers, wharf, trade, cargo, shipping, merchant, clipper, postcard
Countries USA; Australia; China
Places California
Ports San Francisco, USA; Melbourne, Australia; Boston, USA; Adelaide, Australia; Sydney, Australia; Hong Kong, China
Ships McGilvery, Meg Merrilies, Melrose, Memel, Memnon, Merchant, Mercury, Messenger, Meteor, Midnight, Mindoro, Minstrel, Monsoon, Montana, Moonbeam, Moonlight, Morning Light, Morning Star, Mount Lebanon, Mystic Belle, N Boynton, Nabob, Napier, National Eagle, Ne Plus Ultra, Nellie, Nellie Chapin, Nellie Hastings, Nellie M Slade, Nellie May, Neptune's Car, Neptune's Favorite, Nereid, Nestor, Nesutan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Nicobar, Nicoline, Nonpareil, Noonday, Nor' Wester, Norseman, North Star, North Wind, Northern Crown, Northern Light, Norway, Oak Hill, Obed Baxter, Ocean Eagle, Ocean Express, Ocean Rover, Ocean Telegraph, Old Colony, Old Dominion, Oliver Cutts, Olivia Davis, Omaha, Oneco, Ontario, Orion, Orpheus, Osberga, Osborn Howes, Osseola, Otseonthe, Otis Norcross, Oxenbridge
Additional Information Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.
Copyright Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum