Alaskan History
John Webber. “A View of Snug Corner Cove, in Prince William’s Sound.” From A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. London: W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. This view shows Cook’s two ships, the Resolution and the Discovery, in the background, while natives in canoes are seen in the foreground.
Captain Cook Trading Cards The Third - and Final - Voyage Colorful chromolithographic trading cards were a popular promotional item for commercial businesses in the last part of the 19th century, and the first half of the 20th. Small and easily inserted in almost any commodity, they encouraged return business and customer loyalty to a brand, qualities still being sought after by promoters today. The cards on these pages were produced for the Arbuckle Brothers Coffee Company, founded by John and Charles and Arbuckle of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the post Civil War era. At that time coffee was sold as green coffee beans which had to be roasted in a skillet over a fire, or in a pan in the oven of a woodstove, and then ground using a handheld coffee grinder. James A. Folger was among the first to provide pre-roasted, pre-ground coffee, serving the 49er’s of the California Gold Rush, and the Arbuckle brothers took coffee a step further, being the first to package their coffee in convenient one pound bags by developing a machine to
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