1854 Mitchell Map Missouri (1 results)

Very good. Overall age toning. Minor spotting at places. Narrow top margin. Size 13.5 x 16.5 Inches. A fine example of Thomas Cowperthwait and S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of Missouri. The map outlines with vivid detail counties, survey platting, towns, topography, and one railroad route from St. Louis to Jefferson City. This fledging railroad route is in fact the beginnings of the Pacific Railroad which, in the course of the next two decades, would make its way westward to Sacramento, becoming America's first transcontinental railroad. This map was drawn during the heated dispute that eventually led to the Missouri Compromise of 1850, thus postponing the inevitable hostilities Civil War by about 10 years. 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 & Co. as plate no. 33 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 & Co. in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. References: Rumsey 0537.031 (1846 edition). Phillips (Atlases) 814.