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Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States: a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c

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Title

Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States: a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c

Collection

Maps of North America
Countries
United States (except New York)
Parts

Names

Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868 (Publisher)
Young, J. H. (James Hamilton) (Engraver)
Haines, D. (Engraver)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1838
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 15-5070

Subjects

Transportation -- United States
Transportation
United States -- Distances, etc
United States

Genres

Maps
Tourist Maps

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: by J.H. Young.
Statement Of Responsibility: "Engraved on steel by J.H. Young & D. Haines."
Statement Of Responsibility: In lower right margin: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1834 by S. Augustus Mitchell ...
Content: Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Longitude coordinates expressed here as measured from Greenwich.
Content: Colored in outline showing boundaries.
Content: Insets: Vicinity of Cincinnati -- Vicinity of Albany -- Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara -- Vicinity of New Orleans -- Vicinity of Boston -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington -- Vicinity of Charleston.
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 41 x 52 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 59131978
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20643877
Other local Identifier: US006.3.01
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 57b03eb0-4299-0133-0e93-00505686d14e

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1838

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States: a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/57b03eb0-4299-0133-0e93-00505686d14e

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1838). Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States: a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/57b03eb0-4299-0133-0e93-00505686d14e

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States: a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes &c" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/57b03eb0-4299-0133-0e93-00505686d14e

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