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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: A New Map of Kentucky with its Roads & Distances from place to place along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes.   (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 Kentucky with its Roads & Distances from place to place along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes.
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English: A stunning hand colored map of Kentucky published by S. A. Mitchell Sr. in 1850. Depicts the state in superb detail with counties, roads, canals, cities and rivers clearly noted. Inset maps depict the vicinity of Lexington, the Falls of Ohio, and Lewis & Mason counties. A table in the upper right quadrant indicates steam boat millage. Cartographically this map is based on earlier maps by J. S. Tanner. Map was issued as plate no. 28 in Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted “Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: KT-m-50
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