MS 1207-a Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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content: NAA MS 1207-a
name: label: Creator
content: Swan, James G., 1818-1900
topic: label: Topic
content: Expeditions -- Wolcott, cruise of
creator: label: Creator
content: Swan, James G., 1818-1900
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Northwest Coast
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: October 11, 1875
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1207A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Report of a cruise in the U. S. Steamer Wolcott of the Revenue Marine Service, June-July, 1875 in the waters of Alaska and British Columbia. A chart, referred to on page 1 of the letter is not present: "I send a chart published by the English Admiralty of that portion of the Northwest Coast from Fort Simpson, British Columbia to Cross Sound, Alaska, on which I have indicated the route of the Wolcott and the various Indian villages we visited."
label: Scope and Contents
content: There is a manuscript copy and a printed copy. The latter appeared in the Port Townsend Weekly Argus, Supplement, September 4 and 11, 1827. There are a few significant differences between the two.