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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Cuba.   (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
Cuba.
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English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1872 map of Cuba. Shows cities, towns, railroads and roadways with color coding according to district. Also includes the Great Bahama Bank and many of the Bahama Islands. Shows parts of south Florida, naming Miami, Ponce de Leon Bay, Key West and the Everglades. Shows shipping routes from Havana to New York and other destinations. Features the vine motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1865-80 period. Prepared for inclusion as plate 18 in the 1872 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1872 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Date 1872 (dated)
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 14.5 in (36.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,14.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Cuba-mitchell-1872
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Mitchell, S. A., Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., (1872 edition).

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