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Minnesota 1856
No full textShows counties as of 1856.; " Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by Silas Chapman."; "Lith. of Ferd. Mayer & Co., 96 Fulton St., N.Y."; This map, copyrighted in 1856, was published in as many as five versions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imageColor;1:633,60
Military map showing the marches of the United States forces under command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman U.S.A. during the years 1863, 1864, 1865 : Compiled by order of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman U.S.A. at head quarters Military Division of the Mississippi under the direction of Bvt. Maj. W.L.B. Jenney, capt. a.d.c. U.S.A
No full textLithographed by: Ferd. Mayer, 96 & 98 Fulton St., N.Y.; Movements of Sherman's forces shown by different types of lines identified in a table of references but not colored
Map of Sea Islands, coast of South Carolina : from Bull's Bay to Savannah River
No full textPrime meridian : [London]; Library's copy has one panel missing at upper left.; Oriented with north toward the upper right
Central Park, New York, New York 1856
No full textPark map. Covers the area later bounded by 59th and 106th Streets, 5th Avenue and Central Park West, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.) Shows rock outcrops, buildings, reservoir, existing roads. Also shows landforms and streams. Shows relief by hachures. Oriented with north to right of sheet. "Engr. by Ferd. Mayer & Co." on companion map.Grayscale;1:3,50
Minnesota 1855
No full textShows ranges west of the fifth principal meridian.; Shows area bounded by Todd and Brown counties in Minnesota to the west and Douglass and Trempeleau counties in Wisconsin in the east.; Includes decorative border.; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by Silas Chapman in the Clerks Office of the District of the State of Wisconsin."Color;1:600,00
Fortress Monroe. February 1862. / Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lith. 96 Fulton St. N.Y.
No full textBird's-eye view of Fort Monroe, Virginia, in February of 1862.; Includes table of reference showing locations of officers' quarters, hotels, hospitals, wharfs, churches, government buildings, ordinance buildings, storehouses, a 'contraband quarters' for holding slaves siezed by Union Army forces as contraband of war, barracks, batteries, sutlers' quarters, a naval blockade, and more.; Camp Hamilton and the city of Hampton are also labeled in the distant background. The tents of encamped regiments, the '16. Mass.', '20. N.Y.,' 'U.C.G.,' '11. Cav.,' '1t. Del.' and the '20. Ind.' are visible on the shore near Camp Hamilton.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Jacob Cohen in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Minnesota 1856
No full textCadastral map.; Relief shown by hachures. Held at the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.Color;1:6,00
Jane Mayer, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1995. She writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, how the United States out-sources torture, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, and Sarah Palin. Mayer was the 2008 winner of the John Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence. She was also a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mayer is the author of the best-selling 2008 book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, The Economist Magazine, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg
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