1874 Mitchell Map of Florida w/ Mobile, Alabama inset
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Description: This hand colored antique map of Florida is a lithographic engraving dating to 1874 by the important American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell, the younger. Map features a large inset of Mobile Alabama, indicating streets and important buildings. Florida itself is shown in considerable detail with interesting references such as “Indian Hunting Grounds” and “Mangrove Woods”. Prepared for inclusion in the 1874 issue of Mitchell's New General Atlas. Dated and copyrighted, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1874 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington".
Date: 1874
References: Rumsey 2483.024, 0586.026. Newberry Library, A3417. Phillips 1511, 859.
Cartographer: Samuel Augustus Mitchell Senior began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Having worked as a school teacher, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid-19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers H. S. Tanner and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell's Universal Atlas and the Mitchell's General Atlas. In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell's son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, entered the picture. S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time. Click here for a list of rare maps from Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
Size: Printed area measures 14 x 12 inches (35.56 x 30.48 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition.
Code: FL-m-1874 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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