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Title	United States 1856
Full Title	Mitchell's new traveller's guide through the United States : showing the rail roads, canals, stage roads &c., with distances from place to place / drawn and engraved by I.S. Drake & J.L. Hazzard ; published by Charles Desilver
Creator	Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Contributors	Drake, Ira S. Hazzard, J. L. Desilver, Charles
Publication Date	1856
Map Publisher	Charles Desilver
Subject	United States--Maps United States--Distances, etc.
Continent	North and Central America
Country	United States
Notes	Keyed to index. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Charles Desilver in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania." Prime meridian: Washington. Includes five inset maps, notes, ill. and decorative border. Insets: Map of the copper mine region -- vicinity of Nigara Falls -- Map of the maritime and overland routes to California -- Map of the gold and quicksilver district of California -- Map of New England or eastern states.
Contents	This map has been conserved through the generosity of Dianne & Michael Marini, 2010.
Essay Description of Item	Samuel Augustus Mitchell was an American geographer who worked as a teacher before turning to publish geography textbooks and maps. In this 1856 map of the United States Charles Desilver, another Philadelphia publisher, updated Mitchell’s map with new counties, roads, towns, and transportation networks of canals, roads and railroads. Growth across this region of the country was remarkable during the mid-Nineteenth Century.
Type	image
Scale	[1:3,700,000]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : col. ; 52 x 70 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 800 B-1856a
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am010309
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2010-01-09
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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