. Book of the Royal blue . RicM. rMxrhh: ri:.\.\h //. .i/.i )/■;/,•. resilience in llaltimoiv, iin\i^ instnicticm innumerous students. Of these Mr. Mayer was one, and whileacting as librarian of the Maryland Histori-cal Society he made the illustrations furthe works of his uncle, (ol. llrantz Mayer,on Mexico and for the Twenty Years ofan African Slaver. The result of his lalioi-enabled him to accomplish the cherisliedwish of actual acquaintance with our ab-origines and as a traveler to know his owncountry. A summer s]ient among the Ma- Thunder l>aMce,two pictuies founded onthese drawings, h
. Book of the Royal blue . RicM. rMxrhh: ri:.\.\h //. .i/.i )/■;/,•. resilience in llaltimoiv, iin\i^ instnicticm innumerous students. Of these Mr. Mayer was one, and whileacting as librarian of the Maryland Histori-cal Society he made the illustrations furthe works of his uncle, (ol. llrantz Mayer,on Mexico and for the Twenty Years ofan African Slaver. The result of his lalioi-enabled him to accomplish the cherisliedwish of actual acquaintance with our ab-origines and as a traveler to know his owncountry. A summer s]ient among the Ma- Thunder l>aMce,two pictuies founded onthese drawings, have been eiigi-aved for theInited States (lovernment. .\fter attend-ing the treaties of Traverse de Sioux andMendota. which jueluded the departure ofthe last red man iVom the banks nf theMississippi (Mechasibil, an extended tnur,iniduding the Mammoth Cave and Mackinaw,fiillowed, and proved an object lesson inhi line scenery and humanity. In the interval between the instructionsI if Miller and fisrher. Mr. Mayer was em-. BenjaminFninl:lins/7rs/ ^liia. F. H. Miiyci. ISr CuiirlfSVlit ■ l)i\if kota Indians, as one of the jiarty accom-panying the of the Govern-ment who were to make the treaties whichcreated the State of Minnesota, and theDakotas, offered a rare opjiortunity to oli-serve ceremonies and scenes which ordina-rily took jjlace only at long intervals, andto see many tyjies of the Indian collectedin an imjiurtant council. The artist, witiiever-busy jiencil. filled sketch book and .joui-nal, which are already valuaide as uniquerecords of a rapidly disappearing Feast of Mondawmin and The |iliiyed liy a lhilailel]ihia publisher in draw-ings on wood, illustrative of scenes in thethen recent war with Mexico, attentionhaving been drawn to his work by a litho-graphic comjiosition of the charge of Cap-tain May at the battle of Resaca de laIalme. While at work in Ihiladelphia hepassed his evenings in the life-school ofthe Pennsylvania
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