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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson’s Missouri and Kansas   (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 Missouri and Kansas
Description
English: This is Johnson and Ward’s 1866 map of Missouri and Kansas. Covers the state divided into counties with special attention to transportation, especially roads, railroads, and canals. Features three inset woodcuts: “Fire on the Prairie”, Santa Fe From the Great Missouri Trail” and American Indians “Spearing Fish” at night from river canoes. Depicts the two states in an early configuration with western Kansas largely unexplored. Includes important roads such as the Santa Fe Road and the proposed route of the Union Pacific Railroad. Also noted are numerous American Indian tribes, forts, passes, topographical details, proposed railroads, mines, etc. Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1863 to 1869. Steel plate engraving prepared by A. J. Johnson for publication as plates no. 58 and 59 in the 1866 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas… This is the last edition of the Johnson’s Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint.
Date 1866 (dated 1864)
Dimensions height: 17 in (43.1 cm); width: 23 in (58.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,17U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,23U218593
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Geographicus link: MIKA-j-64
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, (1864 Johnson and Ward edition).

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