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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Delaware and Maryland.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Delaware and Maryland.
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English: This is A. J. Johnson’s 1862 map of Maryland, Delaware and Washington D.C. Covers both states as well as the capital district in considerable detail. This is the most decorative of Johnson's Maryland-Delaware series with three inset views along the top as well as an inset map of the District of Columbian the bottom right corner. Most earlier and later editions of this map remove these decorative elements. Offers color coding according to county and notations for railways, roadways, cities, towns, and river systems. Engraved views along the top of the map detail the General Post Office, the Treasury Building and the Patent Office. At the bottom center there is a note regarding the work of Mason and Dixon i surveying the Maryland - Pennsylvania border. Features the strapwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863. Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate number 35 in the 1862 edition of Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas . This is the first edition of the Family Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint.
Date 1862 (undated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 17 in (43.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17U218593
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Geographicus link: MDDE-johnson-1862
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. (1862 A. J. Johnson & Ward edition)

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