This hand colored map is a copper plate engraving, dating to 1849 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. It represents Mississippi. This historically important map is extremely rare as it existed only in the 1849 edition of the Mitchell’s Universal Atlas. This map also contains notes on steamboat routes to New Orleans and to Pittsburg.
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1849<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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