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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.
Description
English: This is a magnificent 1864 hand colored map of the states of Maryland and Delaware by the important American map Publisher A. J. Johnson. Depicts the two states in considerable detail. Includes a large inset map of the District of Columbia or Washington D.C. Made during the Civil war, this map includes a paragraph notation on the surveying of the boundary between Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, commonly called the “Mason Dixon Line”. This line marked the geographical division between the Northern from the Southern states at the outset of the Civil War.
Date 1864
date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 16.5 in (41.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16.5U218593
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Geographicus link: DEMD-j-64
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