1853 Mitchell Map of Michigan - Geographicus - Michigan-mitchell-1850

An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of Michigan. Depicts the entire state color coded according to individual counties. An inset on the right hand side of the map details the western part of the Upper Peninsula. Shows canals and roads with notations regarding steamboat and overland mileage. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 30 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.