Hides and Tallow Exhibit February 11, 2010

The story of the hide and tallow trade and of 1830s California was vividly told in Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s 'Two Years Before the Mast.' This exhibit features a first edition copy of the book, a model of the ship Pilgrim (which carried Dana to California), and a ship's cross section demonstrating 40,000 hides packed in the hold.