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Persia, Arabia, and Afghanistan.

1850 Mitchell Map of Persia

This beautiful hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of Persian and Arabia, dating to 1850, by the legendary American map publisher S.A. Mitchell, the elder. Includes what is today Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Many fascinating features including desert oases, caravan routes, and camps, as well as both political and geographical information. Dated and copyrighted: “1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait & co. in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”.

Date
1850
Place
Afghanistan
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 3,284 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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"Persia, Arabia, and Afghanistan." (1850). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1850_Mitchell_Map_of_Persia,_Arabia_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_Arabia-m-50.jpg

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