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| Keywords: 1850 Cowperthwait - Mitchell Map of Pennsylvania - Geographicus - PA-m-50.jpg This hand colored map is a copper plate engraving dating to 1850 by the legendary American Mapmaker S A Mitchell the elder It represents Pennsylvania Contains notes on steamboat stops and routes between Pittsburg and Louisville Philadelphia and New York both via Trenton and via Bordentown and from Philadelphia to Baltimore via New Castle Upper portion of the map is dedicated to a profile of the Pennsylvania Canal and the Columbia Railroad This historically important map is extremely rare as it existed only in the 1850 edition of the Mitchell ™s Universal Atlas 1850 Size in 14 12 object history credit line accession number PA-m-50 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of Pennsylvania 1850 maps Canals in Pennsylvania Allegheny Portage Railroad Maps in English | ||||
