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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: New York and Brooklyn.   (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
New York and Brooklyn.
Description
English: This beautiful hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of New York City, dating to 1882, by the legendary American map publisher S.A. Mitchell, Junior. Covers all of Manhattan and much of Brooklyn as well as adjacent parts of Jersey City and Queens. Includes in inset map of northern Manhattan and parts of Queens in the lower right quadrant. Superb detail at the street level including the indication of individual buildings. The Brooklyn Bridge, still one year away from its 1883 completion, is indicated. Also names the various ferry routes between New York and Jersey City, as well as between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Central Park shown in its completed state. Dated and copyrighted “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1882 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Date 1882 (dated)
Dimensions height: 14 in (35.5 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,14U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593
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Geographicus link: NewYorkCity-mitchell-1882
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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 Ninety-Three Quarto Maps. Forming a series of One Hundred and Forty-Seven Maps and Plans. Together with Valuable Statistical Tables. (Philadelphia) 1882.

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