California Gold Rush shipping ephemera 1859

Heading: (California Shipping)
Author:
Title: Bill of lading for One Case Mdse. shipped aboard the ship Morning Light of the Glidden & Williams Line of California Packets, by the Phillips Sampson Co.
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Watson's Press
Date Published: July 19, 1859
Description:

Partially printed, filled out in ink, with woodcut of a clipper ship and a color flag of the line; ms. docketing on verso. 18.5x25 cm (7¼x9¾").

Shipping ephemera from the latter years of the California Gold Rush. The case of merchandise is being shipped to James Bithell in Sacramento.

Glidden & Williams was a Boston-based clipper ship packet line which ran ships primarily between Boston and California in the 1850s and 1860s. Over the years Glidden & Williams owned over 50 ships, although not all at the same time due to losses and sales. In its heyday the firm ran about one ship per month to California. It also ran ships to other destinations, including China.

An extreme clipper ship, Morning Star was built in 1853 by Toby & Littlefield, Portsmouth, NH, at a cost of $117.000. It sailed at various times from Boston to San Francisco, Cardiff to San Francisco, San Francisco to Callao, and many other routes. In 1863 it was sold to the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, and was renamed Queen of the South.
Condition Report: Fine, with old folds.