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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of Michigan and Wisconsin.   (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
County Map of Michigan and Wisconsin.
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English: A beautiful example of the first edition of S. A. Mitchell’s 1860 map of Michigan and Wisconsin. Depicts both states in considerable detail with color coding at the county level. Also includes all of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron as well as parts of Lake Superior and Lake Erie. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases issued between 1860 and 1865. In later editions of his atlas, Mitchell would update this map by increasing the scale and layout. One of the more attractive atlas maps of New York to appear in the mid 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 34 in the 1860 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: MIWI-mitchell-1860
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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. Embraced In Forty-Seven Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Seventy-Six Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables, (1860 first edition).

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