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Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States
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Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States

Relief shown by hachures.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington D.C.; Includes distance, 1850 census information, and statistical tables and decorative border.; Also includes illustrated vignettes: Landing of the Pilgrims Dec. 22nd 1620 -- American steamship crossing the Atlantic -- Columbus' ship discovery of America Oct. 12th 1492 -- Clipper ship Flying Cloud.; Inset maps: Map of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Capt.n Cook in 1778 -- Map of the world on the Mercator projection exhibiting the American continent as its centre -- Map of the world on the Globular projection exhibiting the eastern and western Hemispheres.; Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Date
1857
Mapmaker / publisher
Scan by NYPL
Place
Central America
Archive
New York Public Library (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
6,295 × 9,528 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States" (1857). Scan by NYPL. New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchell%27s_new_national_map_exhibiting_the_United_States_(NYPL_b20643856-5476462).jpg

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