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FormatJournal Article
Title, AnalyticContract for a steamship journey from Switzerland to America, 1866 (no imbeciles or passengers with only one eye accepted)
Journal TitleDer Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society
Date of PublicationOct./Nov./Dec. 2000
Volume ID18
Issue ID2
Location in Work56-58
Language or Document TypeEnglish
ISSN1063-8849
AbstractA four-page 1866 contract is transcribed here, between a Swiss shipping company (Jean Stoessel & Company) and the family of Jakob Meier from Eglisau, Switzerland. Transport was from Buelach, Switzerland to New York via Basel and Havre, France.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsEmigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Switzerland/ Atlantic crossing