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DescriptionMitchell map michigan.jpg
English: Excerpt from the Mitchell Map, a circa 1757 map of the United States by botanist and cartographer John Mitchell, centered on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The inaccuracy of this map is one of the factors that led to the Toledo War of 1835-1836.
Date
between 1755 and 1757
date QS:P,+1755-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1755-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
The author died in 1768, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
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2006-05-03 00:35 Hotstreets 258×277×8 (28294 bytes) Mitchell Map of Michigan region from late 1700s. Public domain, since an image of a public domain image is also public domain. Found on [http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/mitchell/full2.jpeg].
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