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Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society : 48th Annual Report of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society of the Port of San Francisco, Cal. For the Year Ending July 31st, 1904

The Salvation Army Press, San Francisco, CA, 1904

Original publisher's beige wrapper with a small illustration on the front cover of a ship at sea. Staple binding. 6" x 8 3/4." Eighteen pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Small chip in lower-right corner of front cover. Staples are rusted but have not marked the pages. A Near Fine copy. This pamphlet lists members and officials of the society, several reports, the society's constitution and by-laws, and a list of seaport cities and towns around the world with sailors' homes. Back cover promotes the Sailor's Home in San Francisco founded and run by the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society and gives a description of its amenities which include bedrooms, bathrooms, a library, and a reading room. The Sailors' Home is an example of sailors' boarding houses which were located near ports and offered boarding for homeless sailors and sailors who were simply ashore between trips. The Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society was a humanitarian group based in San Francisco whose mission was to protect the welfare of sailors who arrived on land through the city's port. The society was founded by Rebecca H. Lambert (1806-1886). Lambert was sympathetic to sailors, in part because she had been married to a sea captain, Thomas Lambert. She was widowed in 1842, and after seeing the plight of a sailor being taken advantage of by "land sharks," she founded the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society in 1852. Excerpt from the Prospectus given by Mrs. E. B. Cooper, the president of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society: "The object of this Society is to relieve shipwrecked and destitute seamen and to protect sailors from the pernicious influences and injustice to which they are subjected in this port, and for such other purposes as shall tend to their moral and intellectual improvement." Excerpt from the Secretary's Report: "The object of our society is, as it always has been, to keep open a home for the seamen entering this port, where they can enjoy a good room, with a clean, comfortable bed; a well-spread table, provided with properly prepared food. Through this Home, we desire to surround the sailors with such an atmosphere, socially and religiously, as shall lead them to a noble manhood; to protect them from the baneful influences that hinder this, and save them from injustice to which they are subjected. Also to relieve shipwrecked and destitute seamen, to care for the sick, and to secure a burial place for indigent seamen who may die in this port, or be brought here for interment.". Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft cover

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