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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Switzerland.   (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
Switzerland.
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English: An attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of the Switzerland. Depicts the entire country color coded according to individual regions. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 58 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal 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 1853 (dated 1850)
Dimensions height: 10 in (25.4 cm); width: 12.5 in (31.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,10U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Switzerland-mitchell-1853
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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. (1853 issue)

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