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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Plan of Baltimore.   (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 Baltimore.
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English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1867 map of Baltimore, Maryland. Covers Baltimore from the Northwest Brach of the Patapsco River and Locust Point northwards as far as Green Mountain Cemetary and Oliver Street. Hand colored in pink, green, yellow and blue pastels to identify city wards. In general this map offers extraordinary detail at level of individual streets and buildings. Identifies the city Hospital, Railroad Depot, Mt. Clare Station, St. Mary's College, and the City Jail, among many other sites. Surrounded by the attractive vine motif border common to Mitchell atlases between 1866 and 1880. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Baltimore to appear in the latter half of the 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate no. 28 in the 1867 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1867 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1867 (dated)
Dimensions height: 10 in (25.4 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,10U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Baltimore-mitchell-1867
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Mitchell Jr., S. A.,Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., 1867 edition.

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