Name/Title
Ledger and Scrapbook of the Steamship 'Ranger', 1853-1854Entry/Object ID
1997.333.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.333.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: TRANSPORTATION
DATE OR PERIOD: 1853-1854
OBJECT: LEDGER
DESCRIPTION:
HARD-BOUND LEDGER, WITH COVER OF BLUE-COLORED PAPER. COVER HAS ATTACHED TYPEWRITTEN PAPER LABEL. INTERIOR HAS HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES IN SEPIA INK. BACK PORTION OF VOLUME WAS USED AS A SCRAPBOOK, AND CONTAINED NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS.
SIZE: L 13" x W 8"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
LEDGER CONTAINING ENTRIES FOR THE STEAMSHIP, "RANGER," WHICH COMMUTED BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND ALAMEDA. LEDGER RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES FOR AUGUST 20, 1853 TO JANUARY 1, 1854 ARE INCLUDED. VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES CLIPPINGS CONCERNING SUPREME COURT DECISIONS FROM THE "DAILY UNION," AND OTHER NEWSPAPERS (1856 TO 1857). THE "RANGER" WAS A STEAMSHIP THAT CHIPMAN AND AUGHINBAUGH HAD PURCHASED TO TRANSPORT PASSENGERS FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO ALAMEDA AND RETURN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE COMMUNITY. THE VESSEL BLEW UP ON JANUARY 8, 1854 NEAR THE SHORELINE OF FOURTH STREET, ALAMEDA, CA. THIS BOOK, #S-77, WAS GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY THE LATE MRS ARTHUR HECHE, WHO WAS THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE COFOUNDER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA --- W W CHIPMAN.
ACQUIRED FROM:
MRS ARTHUR HECHE
CATALOGED: JULY 12, 1997
