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The World in Hemispheres, with other Projections &c. &c.
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The World in Hemispheres, with other Projections &c. &c.

A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1864 decorative double hemisphere map of the world. Depicts the world on a hemisphere projection. Upper part of the map shows the rivers in relative proximity. Lower half of the map features three additional world maps, a hemisphere map on a polar projection, a land and water hemisphere projection, and one of the northern polar regions. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 1 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas. Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Date
1860
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,020 × 3,436 pixels

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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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"The World in Hemispheres, with other Projections &c. &c." (1860). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1864_Mitchell_Map_of_the_World_on_Hemisphere_Projection_-_Geographicus_-_WorldHemi-mitchell-1864.jpg

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