Mitchell's Reference & Distance Map Of The United States. By J.H. Young. Published By S. Augustus Mitchell. Philadelphia: For Sale By S. Augustus Mitchell, No. 8-1/2 South Seventh Street. 1845. Engraved by J.H. Young, F. Dankworth, E. Yeager & E. F. Woodward. Entered ... 1845 by S. Augustus Mitchell ... Pennsylvania. (illustration) Designed by W. Mason. (inset) A General Map Of The United States with the contiguous British & Mexican Possessions. (with 10 additional inset maps)
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| Call number | Status |
|---|---|
| G3701.P15 1845 .M5 ROLLED |
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David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Libraries
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started in the mid 1980s and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th to 21st century maps of North and South America, the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Mitchell, Samuel Augustus.
- Contributor
- Dankworth, F.
- Mason, W.
- Woodward, E.F.
- Yeager, E.
- Young, James H.
Subjects
- Subject
- Distances > United States > Maps > 19th century.
- United States > Maps > 19th century.
- Genre
- Maps
- Wall maps.
- Local subject
- The David Rumsey Map Collection.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1845
- Map Data
- Scale 1: 1,584,000.
- Note
- References: cf Karrow 1-1497.
- This is the early 1845 issue with Iowa Territory extending north of the later state borders, Michigan counties undeveloped in the northern peninsula, the copyright date still 1833, and the smaller ornamental borders of the 1841 issue. Later in the year Mitchell changed the map substantially (see our #4223). The John Arrowsmith delineation is used in the Great Basin. Insets include the United States, south part of Florida, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, north part of Maine, Rochester, Niagara Falls, Albany, Baltimore and Washington, and Charleston. With black top and bottom rollers, and dark green cloth edging. Full color by county.
- Wall Map.
- Note
- Pub list no.: 5151.000.
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