United States -- Boundaries -- Canada
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Anderson papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1292
Overview:
The papers, which chronicle Anderson's work on the North American Boundary Survey, contain Anderson's letters to his family, a diary from the survey, and other personal papers.
Dates:
1813-1881
Emmons family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1306
Overview:
The papers, consisting of the personal and official papers of George Foster Emmons and George Thornton Emmons, document the history of the United States Navy in the nineteenth century and of early ethnological research on the native peoples of Alaska. The papers contain extensive correspondence of naval officers and the Emmons's family, ship's journals and captain's letterbooks, naval orders and reports, research notes and publications on Alaska, scrapbooks, and artwork by the Emmons family.
Dates:
1821-1925
William Hemsley Emory papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1187
Overview:
The bulk of the collection documents William Emory's service on the Mexican boundary survey in the years 1848 to 1858. Series I contains correspondence with members of the boundary commission, the American and Mexican Survey parties, and government officials. Correspondence for 1849-50 describes California during the Gold Rush and Forty-Niners on the Gila route. There are also other military records. Series II contains letters and other records from Emory's service in Kansas and in the Civil...
Dates:
1823-1886
J. D. Graham papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1403
Overview:
The papers document the military career of a topographical engineer in the nineteenth century. The collection contains correspondence, reports, maps, and data from astronomical observations created during the surveys of the Northeastern and Mexican boundaries, a review of the Mason-Dixon Line, a project to improve the Great Lakes's harbors, and a survey of the North and North West Lakes. The papers also have information on Graham's personal life as well as family members such as his son,...
Dates:
1804-1896, bulk 1848-1865
Joseph Smith Harris papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1293
Overview:
The papers, which document Harris's work on the United States surveys of the Mississippi Sound and the northwest boundary, contain correspondence, reports of the Northwest Boundary Survey, photographs of the survey, and a genealogical record of the Harris family up to 1903.
Dates:
1848-1903
Views of the Pacific Northwest.
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1817
Overview:
Photographic prints, drawings, and watercolors chiefly depicting sights on the Northwest Coast, particularly around Vancouver Island. The images were originally housed in a scrapbook kept by an unidentified individual; based on the contents of the scrapbook it is presumed that the person was a member of the joint U.S./British Northwest Boundary Commission. The photographs, taken by an unidentified photographer or photographers, depict deck scenes from what may be the H.M.S. Satellite; Victoria...
Dates:
1828-1860, bulk 1854-1860
Sir Edward Thornton correspondence with the British Foreign Office
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 864
Overview:
The papers are comprised of more than 2,500 original autograph manuscript letters and dispatches received by Sir Edward Thornton, and manuscript copies of Thornton's outgoing official and private correspondence and dispatches, in the period following the American Civil War. Thornton's correspondence was with several important figures in British foreign policy including foreign secretaries Edward Henry Stanley, George William Frederick Villiers, and George Leveson-Gower. Hundreds of other...
Dates:
1868-1875