Shipwrecks

Scope and Contents The first volume in a series of three volumes of the journals of Captain "Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien. This particular copy includes information about the collection from which they were copied and gives descriptions of each volume. These are photocopies of the microfilm version of the journals housed in the University of Alaska archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks, Alaska. This volume covers the period roughly from 1851-1889. "The journals, handwritten in pencil, are a...

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The first volume in a series of three volumes of the journals of Captain "Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien. These are photocopies of the microfilm version of the journals housed in the University of Alaska archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks, Alaska. This volume covers the period roughly from 1851-1889. "The journals, handwritten in pencil, are a narrative of his life and were written between 1928 and 1930."

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The second in a series of three volumes of the journals of Captain "Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien. These are photocopies of the microfilm version of the journals housed in the University of Alaska archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks, Alaska. This volume covers the period roughly from 1889-1909. "The journals, handwritten in pencil, are a narrative of his life and were written between 1928 and 1930."

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This item is a second and slightly different copy of the second in a series of three volumes of the journals of Captain "Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien. These are photocopies of the microfilm version of the journals housed in the University of Alaska archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks, Alaska. This volume covers the period roughly from 1889-1909. "The journals, handwritten in pencil, are a narrative of his life and were written between 1928 and 1930."

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The third in a series of three volumes of the journals of Captain "Dynamite" Johnny O'Brien. These are photocopies of the microfilm version of the journals housed in the University of Alaska archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks, Alaska. This volume covers the period roughly from 1909-1930. "The journals, handwritten in pencil, are a narrative of his life and were written between 1928 and 1930."

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The book by Donald Shomette entitled "The Hunt for HMS De Braak." Photocopied by Dennis Powers.

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A book entitled The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton (1958).

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This item is a photocopied version of the entire book, The Sea Saga of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: American Master Mariner for Fifty-Three Years; A Seaman for Sixty-Five Years; Whose Shipmates and Friends called him the 'Nestor of the Pacific'; Who Feared God by Defied His Storms; Who Fought the Good Fight; Whose Firsts were as Hard as his Spirit was Stout by Milton A. Dalby (1933).

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This item is a photocopied version of the entire book, The Sea Saga of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: American Master Mariner for Fifty-Three Years; A Seaman for Sixty-Five Years; Whose Shipmates and Friends called him the 'Nestor of the Pacific'; Who Feared God by Defied His Storms; Who Fought the Good Fight; Whose Firsts were as Hard as his Spirit was Stout by Milton A. Dalby (1933).

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This folder contains a paper about the SS Pomona. Also included here are a variety of items about maritime events, court cases involving steamships, biographies of San Francisco residents, and some email correspondence between Dennis Powers and others.