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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: City of Washington.   (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
City of Washington.
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English: This is beautiful hand colored 1850 map of Washington D.C., Capital of the United States. The map covers all of Washington D.C. as well as parts of adjacent Georgetown. The whole is highly detailed with individual buildings noted and color coding to define city wards. Some seventy-five buildings, including the Capitol, the White House, the Cemetery, the Brewery, various markets, the Masonic Hall, and the Tobacco Warehouse, and many others, are identified. Produced by the American map publisher S. A. Mitchell Sr. from his offices on the northeast corner of Market and 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date 1850 (undated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: WashingtonDC-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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