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| Keywords: 1856 Mitchell Wall Map of the United States and North America - Geographicus - AmerNorthWall-m-1856.jpg This is the first edition of Mitchell ™s important 1856 wall map of the United States Mexico and the West Indies Depictss the entire nation from Atlantic to Pacific with inset maps of the World on Mercator ™s Projection and the World on Globular Projection and Hawaii The Sandwich Islands In his important book on Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861 Wheat calls this map an achievement and describes it ™s western portion in considerable detail This wall map includes the territory acquired following the Mexican American war and was one of the best depictions of the Western U S to appear in the 1850s The map includes the 1854 Gadsden Purchase in Texas the 1855 Mexico / United States border and detailed information derived from Stansburys 1852 study of the region A seminal map and a must for any serious United States Southwest or Trans-Mississippi map collection 1856 dated Size in 60 60 object history credit line accession number AmerNorthWall-m-1856 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of the United States Old maps of Mexico Old maps of Central America 1856 maps | ||||
