Alaska Cruises Via Totem Pole Route - Season 1913 - Steamship Spokane Tourist Souvenir Diary

Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Publication: Passenger Traffic Department, Pacific Coast Steamship Company of San Francisco in 1913, San Francisco

4.5" x 3.5" in stiff printed wrappers. 64 pages, illustrations, An attractive small travel diary for passengers on the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's cruises to Alaska. Offers information on their various routes departing from San Francisco, information on tonnage of 18 various steamships in their fleet, distances from Seattle to various points, and heights of principal mountains and peaks on the Pacific coast. History of Alaska, natural history, significance of totem pole figures, Alaska's commerce, its salmon, its agriculture and reindeer. Black and white photographs of Rudyerd Fiord, Old Kasaan, Eddystone Rock, Taku Glacier, street scene in Sitka, and sightseers on Steamship Spokane. Forty pages of blank forms for passengers to record expenses, arrivals and departures, names and addresses of other passengers, and notes. "The company Pacific Coast Steamship Company of San Francisco was first organized in 1867 under the name of Goodall, Nelson and Perkins. In 1876 Christopher Nelson retired and the remaining partners reorganized, on October 17, 1876, as the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, providing service to twenty ports in California. The company later expanded to operate on routes to Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and Alaska, owning a number of steamships. Its steamships regularly sailed from Seattle to SE Alaska before and after the Klondike Gold Rush. Light soiling to covers. Very good.

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