File:1850 Cowperthwait Map of Illinois - Geographicus - IL-m-50.jpg

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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Map of the State of Illinois.   (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
Map of the State of Illinois.
Description
English: This is beautiful hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of the state of Illinois dating to 1850. Map divides the state into counties with notations on both political and geographical features. Produced by the legendary American map publisher S. A. Mitchell Sr. out of his 253 Market Street office in Philadelphia, PA.
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 14 in (35.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,14U218593
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Geographicus link: IL-m-50
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