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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
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
County Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri.
Description
English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1864 map of Iowa and Missouri. Detailed to the county level with special attention both political and geographic elements. Notes important river systems, railways, canals, and cities. Updated from the 1860 variant in 1861 to reflect the rapid settlement of this region by European Americans in the mid-19t century. One of the most attractive American atlas maps of this region to appear in the mid 19th century. Features the floral border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1860-65 period. Prepared by W. H. Gamble for inclusion as plate no. 40 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1861 (dated)
Dimensions height: 14.2 in (36.1 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,14.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Geographicus link: IAMO-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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