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| Keywords: 1866 Mitchell Map of Boston, Massachusetts - Geographicus - Boston-mitchel-1866.jpg A beautiful example of S A Mitchell Junior ™s 1866 map of Boston Massachusetts Depicts Boston along with parts of East Cambridge Charlestown East Boston and South Boston Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks individual streets trains piers ferries and important buildings Colored coded with pastels according to city wards An inset in the lower right quadrant depicts Boston Harbor and the greater Boston area Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865 This variant differs from earlier examples 1860-2 of Mitchell ™s Boston only in coloration One of the more attractive atlas maps of Boston to appear in the mid 19th century Prepared by S A Mitchell Jr for inclusion as plate 20 in the 1866 issue of Mitchell ™s New General Atlas Like many American map publishers of this period Mitchell did not regularly update his copyright consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860 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 1866 dated 1860 Size in 9 5 11 5 object history credit line accession number Boston-mitchel-1866 Mitchell S A <i>Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc embraced in Fifty-Five Quarto Maps Forming a series of Eight-Seven Maps and Plans together with Valuable Statistical Tables</i> 1866 edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of Boston 1866 maps | ||||
