File:1853 Mitchell Map of Louisiana - Geographicus - LA-mitchell-1850.jpg

Samuel Augustus Mitchell: A New Map of Louisiana with its Canals, Roads & Distances from placeto place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes.. (

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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
Location of birth/death	Bristol	Philadelphia
Authority file	: Q3445785 VIAF: 72637097 ISNI: 0000000083446251 LCCN: n50036750 NLA: 35057283 Open Library: OL160112A WorldCat

Title

A New Map of Louisiana with its Canals, Roads & Distances from placeto place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes..

Description

English: An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of Louisiana. Depicts the entire state color coded according to individual counties. Shows canals and roads with notations regarding steamboat and overland mileage. A large inset in the upper right hand quadrant offers a detailed city plan of central New Orleans. Shows grid structure, districts, important buildings, piers and wharfs. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 30 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Date

1853 (dated)

Dimensions

height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 15 in (38.1 cm)

Accession number

Geographicus link: LA-mitchell-1850

Source/Photographer

A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. (1853 issue)

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