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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of the State of Illinois. - Plan of Chicago.   (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 the State of Illinois. - Plan of Chicago.
Description
English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1861 map of Illinois and Chicago. Depicts the state of Illinois in considerable detail with color coding at the county level. Also notes roads, railroads, rivers, cities towns, and some geographical features. Features a large and detailed inset plan of Chicago in the lower left hand quadrant. Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S.Illinois for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.” Engraved by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as map no. 38 in the 1864 edition of Mitchell’s New General Atlas .
Date 1861 (dated)
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 14 in (35.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,14U218593
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Geographicus link: IL-m-60
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Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Fifty-three Quarto Maps, forming a series of Eighty-Four Map and Plans, together with Valuable Statistical Tables. (1864 Edition)

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