HIST 166 - Sea of Islands Pacific History

Archival Collections:

• Whitman College Biology Department records
  • Whitman College group trip to American Samoa: pictures, map, handbook, and news clippings, [interim] 1969
• Port C. Martin Photographs
• Student Groups: 
  • Whitman College Yearbooks
  • Whitman College Student Newspapers

Rare Books:

Atlases - 

• Early American Maps [prints] - 16th & 17th centuries - 1597-1695
•  SCL1005 Atlas Noveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarqués les Empires ... et Peuples. 1696
• SCF1008 Cosmography in four books: Containing the choreography and history of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof. 1703
• SCC1017 Philippi Cluverii Introductio in universal geographiam: Tam veterem quam novam tabulis geographicis XLVI. 1697
• SCF1015 Thesaurus geographicus :a new body of geography, or, a compleat description of the earth... 1695
• SCL1007 Atlas. Tot Amsterdam. [n.d. pre 1700]
• SCF1026  Bertius, Petrus, Isaac Elsevier, Jodocus Hondius, Gerhard Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Marcus Welser, and Ptolemy. Theatrum Geographiæ Veteris : Duobus Tomis Distinctum. Lugduni Batauorum: Excudebat typis suis Isaacus Elzevirius, sumptibus Iudoci Hondij., 1618.
• SCC1023 Historia mundi, or, Mercators atlas: containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world. 1637
• SCF1047 Atlas Chinesis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company… 1671
• SCL1010 Atlas minor: or, a set of sixty-two new and correct maps of all the parts of the world. 1732
• SCF1037 A complete system of geography… 1747

Travelogues - 

• SCB1538 Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Samuel Patterson, experienced in the Pacific ocean, and many other parts of the world, with an account of the Feegee and Sandwich islands. 1817
• SCB1528 A voyage to the Pacific Ocean: undertaken by the command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere: performed under the direction of captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1778, 1780. 1818
• SCA1315 A narrative of the shipwreck, captivity and sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. J. Nute: Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants ot Lord North’s Island. 1839
• SCC1754 Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, etc.: with a scientific appendix. 1839
• SCB1350 Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky mountains under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., containing a description of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives. 1844
• SCC2082 A residence of twenty-one years in the Sandwich Islands: or, the Tivil, religious, and political history of those islands: comprising a particular view of the missionary operations connected with the introduction and progress of Christianity and civilization among the Hawaiian people. 1847
• SCB1355 Ten years in Oregon: travels and adventures of doctor E. White and lady, west of the Rocky mountains: with incidents of two sea voyages cia Sandwich Islands around Cape Horn… 1848