Keywords: 1849 Cowperthwait - Mitchell Map of Mississippi - Geographicus - MS-m-49.jpg 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 1849 Size in 14 12 object history credit line accession number MS-m-49 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of Mississippi 1849 maps |