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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map Of The States Of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode Id. And Connecticut.   (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 States Of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode Id. And Connecticut.
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English: A fine example of Mitchell’s 1864 map of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Depicts the region in considerable detail with notations regarding political divisions, rail lines, roads, and geographical features. Features two inset maps in the lower left quadrant, one of Boston Harbor and the other of New York Harbor. No notable variations from earlier issues. One of the most attractive American atlas maps of New York and New England 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 map nos. 16, 17 and 18 in the 1864 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: 13.5 in (34.2 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593
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Geographicus link: NYNewEngland-mitchell-1864
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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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