Image: 1864 Mitchell Map of Baltimore, Maryland - Geographicus - Baltimore-mitchell-1864

Description: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1864 map Baltimore, Maryland. Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to the important buildings, trains, canals, and roads. Colored coded with pastels according to city wards. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Baltimore to appear in the mid 19th century. Prepared by S. A Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 25 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “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.
Title: Plan of Baltimore.
Credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.
Author: Samuel Augustus Mitchell
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