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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Plan of the City of Philadelphia and Camden.   (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 the City of Philadelphia and Camden.
Description
English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1876 folio map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Covers downtown Philadelphia and adjacent Camden, offering street detail on both sides of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Names important buildings, parks, roads, railways, public work, and military installations. Color coded according to city wards. Surrounded by the attractive vine motif border common to Mitchell atlases between 1866 and 1880. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Philadelphia to appear in the later 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plates 42-43 in the 1876 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1876 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington.
Date 1876 (dated)
Dimensions height: 15 in (38.1 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22U218593
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Geographicus link: Philadelphia-mitchell-1876
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Mitchell Jr., S. A., Mitchell's New General Atlas, 1876 edition.

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