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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Plan of Boston.   (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
Plan of Boston.
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English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1864 map of Boston, Massachusetts. Depicts Boston along with parts of East Cambridge, Charlestown, East Boston, and South Boston. Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks, individual streets, trains, piers, ferries, and important buildings. Colored coded with pastels according to city wards. An inset in the lower right quadrant depicts Boston Harbor and the greater Boston area. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. This variant differs from earlier examples (1860-2) of Mitchell’s Boston only in coloration. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Boston to appear in the mid 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 20 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1860 (dated)
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 9.5 in (24.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Boston-mitchell-1864
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Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Fifty-three Quarto Maps, forming a series of Eighty-Four Map and Plans, together with Valuable Statistical Tables. (1864 Edition)

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