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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of Virginia, and North Carolina.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Samuel Augustus Mitchell  (1792–1868)  wikidata:Q3445785
 
Alternative names
S. Augustus Mitchell; S. Augustus Mitchell, Sr.
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1792 18 December 1868 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol Philadelphia
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artist QS:P170,Q3445785
Title
County Map of Virginia, and North Carolina.
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English: One of the most difficult to find atlas maps issued by S. A. Mitchell Jr. From the first edition (1860) of Mitchell’s Mitchell’s New General Atlas , depicts a unified Virginia with North Carolina. Includes parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina and Delaware. Denotes both political and geographical details including roads and proposed railroads. One of the most attractive American atlas maps of this region to appear in the mid 19th century. Features the floral border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1860-65 period. Prepared by W. Williams for inclusion as plate no. 23 in the 1860 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. A. Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1860 (dated)
Dimensions height: 11.2 in (28.5 cm); width: 13.5 in (34.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13.5U218593
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Geographicus link: VANC-mitchell-1860
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Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc. Embraced In Forty-Seven Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Seventy-Six Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. (1860 first edition.)

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