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| Keywords: 1866 Mitchell Map of Washington D.C. - Geographicus - WashingtonDC-mitchell-1866.jpg A rare 1866 Map of Washington D C by American map publisher S A Mitchell Jr Depicts the city shortly following Lincoln ™s assassination Important buildings such as the capitol the Arsenal the Smithsonian Institute the White House etc are individually drawn in and labeled Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks individual streets piers ferries and important buildings Colored coded with pastels according to city wards Includes Georgetown Based upon the original plan of Washington D C developed by French architect Pierre-Charles L'Enfant Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1866 Prepared by S A Mitchell Jr for inclusion as plate 26 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 1861 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 1866 dated 1861 Size in 14 11 5 object history credit line accession number WashingtonDC-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 Washington D C | ||||
