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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: A New Map of Mississippi with its Roads & Distances   (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
A New Map of Mississippi with its Roads & Distances
Description
English: This hand colored map is a copper plate engraving, dating to 1849 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. It represents Mississippi. This historically important map is extremely rare as it existed only in the 1849 edition of the Mitchell’s Universal Atlas. This map also contains notes on steamboat routes to New Orleans and to Pittsburg.
Date 1849
date QS:P571,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 14 in (35.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,14U218593
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