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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Russia   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Russia
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English: A beautiful example of Johnson and Ward’s 1862 map of Russia. Depicts the European portions of Russia from the Arctic Sea south to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Extends west as far as Warsaw and east as far as Orenburg and Perm. Includes the Ukraine. Surrounded by the attractive ribbon border common to Johnson’s atlases between 1860 and 1862. One of the more attractive American atlas maps of Russia to appear in the mid 19th century. Based upon Colton’s 1855 map of the same region. Prepared by A. J. for inclusion as plate 76 in the 1862 issue of Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas .
Date 1862 (undated)
Dimensions height: 16 in (40.6 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
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Geographicus link: Russia-johnson-1862
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. (1862 A. J. Johnson & Ward edition)

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