1877 Mitchell Map of Arizona and New Mexico
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Description: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1877 map of Arizona and New Mexico. Superb detail regarding American Indian Tribes, mining areas, and emigrant trails. Denotes both political and geographical details. One of the most attractive American atlas maps of this region to appear in the mid 19th century. Features the vine motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1866 - 1882 period. Prepared by W. H. Gamble for inclusion as plate no. 92 in the 1877 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas. Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1877 by S. A. Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.”
Date: 1877 (dated)
Source: Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Fifty-three Quarto Maps, forming a series of Eighty-Four Map and Plans, together with Valuable Statistical Tables. (1877 Edition)
References: Rumsey 0586.047. Arizona State University Map Collection: 4300.1879 M56. Phillips (atlases) 892.
Cartographer: The Office of the Coast Survey, founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin, is the oldest scientific organization in the U.S. Federal Government. Jefferson created the "Survey of the Coast," as it was then called, in response to a need for accurate navigational charts of the new nation's coasts and harbors. The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss immigrant and West Point mathematics professor Ferdinand Hassler. Under the direction of Hassler, from 1816 to 1843, the ideological and scientific foundations for the Coast Survey were established. Hassler, and the Coast Survey under him developed a reputation for uncompromising dedication to the principles of accuracy and excellence. Hassler lead the Coast Survey until his death in 1843, at which time Alexander Dallas Bache, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, took the helm. Under the leadership A. D. Bache, the Coast Survey did most of its most important work. During his Superintendence, from 1843 to 1865, Bache was steadfast advocate of American science and navigation and in fact founded the American Academy of Sciences. Bache was succeeded by Benjamin Pierce who ran the Survey from 1867 to 1874. Pierce was in turn succeeded by Carlile Pollock Patterson who was Superintendent from 1874 to 1881. In 1878, under Patterson's superintendence, the U.S. Coast Survey was reorganized as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (C & GS or USGS) to accommodate topographic as well as nautical surveys. Today the Coast Survey is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Click here for a list of rare maps from the U. S. Coast Survey.
Size: Printed area measures 14 x 11.5 inches (35.56 x 29.21 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Map of Utah and Nevada on verso.
Code: AZNM-mitchell-1877 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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