Schooner Lottie Beard account book
Scope and Contents
Account book containing memoranda of outward and inward freights on seventeen voyages of whaling ships to St. Helena Island. The private marks for each ship's barrels are given. It appears that the Lottie Beard carried supplies to various whaling vessels and brought back whale oil and bone from the same vessels.
Dates
- Creation: 1878-1886
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information on access procedures and reproduction services.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 volume)Biographical / Historical
Shipping vessel out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Built in Fairhaven, Massachusetts in 1866.
Physical Location
MANU
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Charles H. Taylor.
Processing Information
Processed: February 2021 By: Baker Library Special Collections Staff
Processing Information
To enhance discoverability, this collection was removed from an artificial collection of account books and other material relating to the whaling industry chiefly from New Bedford and Nantucket, Mass. in February 2021.
Subject
- Lottie Beard (Schooner) (Organization)
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- bak01362
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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