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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Plan of the City of Philadelphia and Camden. (

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Artist

Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792–1868)
Alternative names	S. Augustus Mitchell; S. Augustus Mitchell, Sr.
Description	American cartographer
Date of birth/death	1792	18 December 1868 / 20 December 1868
Location of birth/death	Bristol	Philadelphia
Authority file	: Q3445785 VIAF: 72637097 ISNI: 0000000083446251 LCCN: n50036750 NLA: 35057283 Open Library: OL160112A WorldCat

Title

Plan of the City of Philadelphia and Camden.

Description

English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1876 folio map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Covers downtown Philadelphia and adjacent Camden, offering street detail on both sides of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Names important buildings, parks, roads, railways, public work, and military installations. Color coded according to city wards. Surrounded by the attractive vine motif border common to Mitchell atlases between 1866 and 1880. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Philadelphia to appear in the later 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plates 42-43 in the 1876 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1876 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington.

Date

1876 (dated)

Dimensions

height: 15 in (38.1 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)

Accession number

Geographicus link: Philadelphia-mitchell-1876

Source/Photographer

Mitchell Jr., S. A., Mitchell's New General Atlas, 1876 edition.

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