Format Map
Contributors Thayer, Eli
Dates 1863
Location United States
Virginia
Virginia Peninsula
Language English
Subjects Civil War
History
United States
Virginia
Virginia Peninsula
Virginia Peninsula (Va.)
Title
Map of the country between the York and James Rivers in 1862 and 1863 : showing the names of the owners of the divisions of land at that time.
Description
"From a survey made for Hon. Eli Thayer of Massachusetts, who fixed at this point the site of the city he intended to build in connection with his plan for the free-labor colonization of Virginia. Mr. Thayer passed the union lines twice in 1862-3, receiving written authority from Secretary Seward, and with the aid of a surveyor was able to complete this map."--verso.
Show rivers, railroads, roads, towns and houses with names of the owners.
Sun print.
This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
Title from verso of map.
Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 1041
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
c. 1, May 1904, Franklin P. Rice, gift; c. 2 1974 photocopy, LVA; c. 3 photocopy, LVA; Feb. 2004, Map Cataloging Team.
Civil War project no.: lva00180.
Copy 1: Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, Dec. 2003.
Copy 1: map accession no. 5237X; c. 2 map accession no. 4172 (1974), (negative photostat, LVA, Oct. 1974, 30 x 41 cm.); c. 3 (positive photocopy, LVA, 31 x 42 cm.)
Digital image available: 11.75 x 16 in.
Previously filed as: 755.4 S8 1863.
1 map : photocopy, mounted on paper ; 29 x 41 cm.
Creator
Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899.
Created Published
[S.l. : s.n., 1863?]
Subject Headings
-  Virginia Peninsula (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  United States--Virginia--Virginia Peninsula.
Notes
-  "From a survey made for Hon. Eli Thayer of Massachusetts, who fixed at this point the site of the city he intended to build in connection with his plan for the free-labor colonization of Virginia. Mr. Thayer passed the union lines twice in 1862-3, receiving written authority from Secretary Seward, and with the aid of a surveyor was able to complete this map."--verso.
-  Show rivers, railroads, roads, towns and houses with names of the owners.
-  Sun print.
-  This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
-  Title from verso of map.
-  Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 1041
-  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
-  c. 1, May 1904, Franklin P. Rice, gift; c. 2 1974 photocopy, LVA; c. 3 photocopy, LVA; Feb. 2004, Map Cataloging Team.
-  Civil War project no.: lva00180.
-  Copy 1: Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, Dec. 2003.
-  Copy 1: map accession no. 5237X; c. 2 map accession no. 4172 (1974), (negative photostat, LVA, Oct. 1974, 30 x 41 cm.); c. 3 (positive photocopy, LVA, 31 x 42 cm.)
-  Digital image available: 11.75 x 16 in.
-  Previously filed as: 755.4 S8 1863.
Medium
1 map : photocopy, mounted on paper ; 29 x 41 cm.
Repository
Library of Virginia Richmond, VA 23219-8000 USA vau For copies contact: Archives Research Services.
Digital Id
glva01 lva00180 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/glva01.lva00180


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