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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: County Map of California.   (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 California.
Description
English: A rare 1866 Map of California by the American map publisher S. A. Mitchell Jr. Covers the region in considerable detail showing extant and proposed rail lines, cities and counties as well as an assortment of additional topographical information. Colored coded with pastels according to county. A large inset in the upper right quadrant details the regions surrounding the Great Salt Lake, in Utah. Another inset, in the lower left quadrant, details San Francisco Bay. This is the last edition of this map to use the basic map plate created by Mitchell in 1860. Subsequent editions replaced the Great Salt Lake inset with an inset of the city of San Francisco. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1866. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 45 in the 1866 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Like many American map publishers of this period, Mitchell did not regularly update his copyrights, consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860: “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 1866 (dated 1860)
Dimensions height: 13.5 in (34.2 cm); width: 11 in (27.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11U218593
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Geographicus link: California-mitchell-1866
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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., embraced in Fifty-Five Quarto Maps, Forming a series of Eight-Seven Maps and Plans, together with Valuable Statistical Tables, 1866 edition.

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