Historic Map : Mitchell Map of Pennsylvania, Version 2, 1854, Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Mitchell Map of Pennsylvania, Version 2, 1854, Vintage Wall ArtThis carefully defined piece of S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of Pennsylvania features the state's cities, towns, roads, canals, and railroads in great detail. This map covers from Lake Erie eastward to Delaware and New Jersey. An elevation profile of the important Pennsylvania Canal system fills the upper right quadrant of the map. In the lower left quadrant steamboat travel distances are rendered in tabular format. The whole is engraved and colored in

This carefully defined piece of S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of Pennsylvania features the state's cities, towns, roads, canals, and railroads in great detail. This map covers from Lake Erie eastward to Delaware and New Jersey. An elevation profile of the important Pennsylvania Canal system fills the upper right quadrant of the map. In the lower left quadrant steamboat travel distances are rendered in tabular format. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure.

This map was prepared by S. A. Mitchell for publication by the Philadelphia firm of Thomas Cowperthwait and Co. as plate no. 13 in the 1854 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas. Dated and copyrighted, 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait and Co. in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.'