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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.   (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
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.
Description
English: A beautiful example of the first edition of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1860 map of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri Kansas and Nebrasa. Detailed to the county level with attention to towns, geographical features, proposed railroads, and cities. Western Nebraska and Kansas exhibit archaic county lines as the U.S. Land Office had not yet completed its survey and partitioning of this region. Appeared only in the 1860 edition of the Mitchell Atlas . In subsequent editions this map was replaced with individual state maps. Features the floral motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1860-67 period. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for inclusion as plate 33 in the 1860 First Edition issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 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 1860 (dated)
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 13.5 in (34.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13.5U218593
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Geographicus link: ILMIIANEKA-mitchell-1860
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Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., (1860 edition).

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