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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County and Township Map of the States of Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
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 and Township Map of the States of Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Description
English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1873 map of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Shows cities, towns, railroads and roadways with color coding according to district. Also includes both Martha Vineyard and Nantucket. Features the vine motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1865-80 period. Prepared by W. H. Gamble for inclusion as plate 14 in the 1873 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1873 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Date 1873 (dated)
Dimensions height: 15 in (38.1 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22U218593
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Geographicus link: MACTRI-mitchell-1873
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Mitchell, S. A., Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., (1873 edition).

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