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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: West Indies.   (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
West Indies.
Description
English: This scarce hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of the West Indies dating to 1850 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. Covers from Florida and the Bahamas south through the Caribbean nations of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic) to the northern Part of South America and east to the Caribbee Islands or the Lesser Antilles. Includes the Bahamas (Bahama Islands).
Date 1850 (dated)
Dimensions height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 15 in (38.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,15U218593
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Geographicus link: WestIndies-m-1850
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Mitchell Sr., S. A.,A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. (1850 issue)

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