File:1867 Mitchell Map of New York State - Geographicus - NewYork-mitchell-1867.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(5,000 × 3,355 pixels, file size: 6.15 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of the State of New York.   (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
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3445785
Title
County Map of the State of New York.
Description
English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1867 map of New York. Detailed to the county level with attention to towns, geographical features, proposed railroads, and cities. Five inset city plans detail Buffalo, Rochester, New York City and Harbor, Albany and Troy. Features the vine motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1865-80 period. Prepared by W. H. Gamble for inclusion as plate 18 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 Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Date 1867 (dated)
Dimensions height: 14 in (35.5 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,14U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593
Accession number
Geographicus link: NewYork-mitchell-1867
Source/Photographer

Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., (1867 edition).

Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current07:49, 18 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 07:49, 18 March 20115,000 × 3,355 (6.15 MB)BotMultichill (talk | contribs){{subst:User:Multichill/Geographicus |link=http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/NewYork-mitchell-1867 |product_name=1867 Mitchell Map of New York State |map_title=County Map of the State of New York. |description=A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell