Alfred Thayer Mahan correspondence and battle diagrams

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{"value"=>"Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Alfred Thayer Mahan correspondence and battle diagrams"}

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{"value"=>"1897-1909", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1897/1909"}

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abstract

{"value"=>"Correspondence, largely with John Shaw Billings, relating to research done at the New York Public Library by American naval strategist and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan. Some letters include brief discussions of naval history. Also included are notes and numerous drafts of diagrams depicting naval battles with annotations from Mahan to the draughtsman, ostensibly created for his book Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812"}

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1897

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1909

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1897

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.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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{"value"=>"Alfred Thayer Mahan correspondence and battle diagrams, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

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1897

date_end

1909

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