ARTIST: Samuel Augustus Mitchell
PUBLISHER: Published by S. A. Mitchell, Philadelphia.
MEDIUM: Handcolored engraving,
DATE: 1860-c.1865.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 13 1/4 x 21 1/8" (33.6 x 53.6 cm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A nice coast to coast double page map of U.S. from Mitchell's "New General Atlas". A decorative printed "rose & flower vine border" surrounds this map. Two insets in the lower right, Hampton Roads and Pensacola Bay. Shows the Pony Express and overland mail routes. Wyoming is noted as being attached to Dakota. Soon after this map was issued the two inset map were dropped and an inset of Newfoundland was a added.
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CONDITION: Good condition save fore some repaired splitting along upper and lower centerfold. Original hand coloring.
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