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The company was founded in 1900 in [[Brooklyn, New York]] by Caleb Stillson Hammond, and incorpoarted in 1901 as '''C. S. Hammond & Co.''' and moved to Manhattan. It soon relocates to a warehouse in [[Maplewood, NJ]] that was near the family home. During it's hayday in 1950s and 1960s it was second only to [[Rand McNally]]. The company was privately owned by the Hammond family until its assets were acquired by Langenscheidt Publishers Inc. in 1999.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E0D81531F93AA35755C0A9609C8B63] NY Times obituray of C.D.Hammond</ref><ref>[http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0305/hammond.html] Library of Congress article on Hammond maps donation</ref> |
The company was founded in 1900 in [[Brooklyn, New York]] by Caleb Stillson Hammond, and incorpoarted in 1901 as '''C. S. Hammond & Co.''' and moved to Manhattan. It soon relocates to a warehouse in [[Maplewood, NJ]] that was near the family home. During it's hayday in 1950s and 1960s it was second only to [[Rand McNally]]. The company was privately owned by the Hammond family until its assets were acquired by Langenscheidt Publishers Inc. in 1999.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E0D81531F93AA35755C0A9609C8B63] NY Times obituray of C.D.Hammond</ref><ref>[http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0305/hammond.html] Library of Congress article on Hammond maps donation</ref> |
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Hammond Map or Hammond World Atlas Corporation is an American map company. It was formerly an operating subsidiary of The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, a major map publisher in the United States, but was sold to Universal Map, a affiliate of Kappa Publishing Group, in 2010.
The company was founded in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York by Caleb Stillson Hammond, and incorpoarted in 1901 as C. S. Hammond & Co. and moved to Manhattan. It soon relocates to a warehouse in Maplewood, NJ that was near the family home. During it's hayday in 1950s and 1960s it was second only to Rand McNally. The company was privately owned by the Hammond family until its assets were acquired by Langenscheidt Publishers Inc. in 1999.[1][2]
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