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| Keywords: 1866 Mitchell Map of California - Geographicus - California-mitchell-1866.jpg A rare 1866 Map of California by the American map publisher S A Mitchell Jr Covers the region in considerable detail showing extant and proposed rail lines cities and counties as well as an assortment of additional topographical information Colored coded with pastels according to county A large inset in the upper right quadrant details the regions surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah Another inset in the lower left quadrant details San Francisco Bay This is the last edition of this map to use the basic map plate created by Mitchell in 1860 Subsequent editions replaced the Great Salt Lake inset with an inset of the city of San Francisco Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1866 Prepared by S A Mitchell Jr for inclusion as plate 45 in the 1866 issue of Mitchell ™s New General Atlas Like many American map publishers of this period Mitchell did not regularly update his copyrights consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860 Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S Augustus Mitchell Jr in the Clerk ™s Office of the District Court of the U S for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1866 dated 1860 Size in 11 13 5 object history credit line accession number California-mitchell-1866 Mitchell S A <i>Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc embraced in Fifty-Five Quarto Maps Forming a series of Eight-Seven Maps and Plans together with Valuable Statistical Tables</i> 1866 edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of California Topographic maps of California Old California in the 1860s 1866 maps | ||||
