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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Chili La Plata and Uruguay. - South Part of Patagonia.   (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
Chili La Plata and Uruguay. - South Part of Patagonia.
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English: An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of Chili, La Plata and Uruguay. Covers the south part of South America from Bolivia and Paraguay south to Tierra del Fuego. Includes the modern day nations of Chili, Argentina and Uruguay with parts of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. An inset in the lower right quadrant details the southern part of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands. Shows South America's highest mountian, the Volcan de Aconcagua, on the border between Mendoza and Chili. Offers various interesting annotations regarding the indigenous peoples of the region. Color coded according to region. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 44 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal Atlas .
Date 1850 (undated)
Dimensions height: 15.5 in (39.3 cm); width: 12.5 in (31.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U218593
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Geographicus link: LaPlata-mitchell-1850
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A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. (1853 issue)

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