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Attractive map of New Orleans, showing Mississippi River to Algiers, parks and trolleys.
The map is hand colored by wards. Shows streets, buildings, rail lines, etc.
An attractive city plan from the pre-eminent commercial publisher of the era.
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. inherited the Mitchell Company from his father in 1860. For over thirty years, the company had specialized in the production of school atlases and wall maps of America. They were one of the pioneers on engraving on steel plates. In 1860, Samuel Jr. released the New General Atlas, which had been compiled in house and replaced a previous atlas by Tanner. The elder Mitchell died in 1868 and Samuel Jr. continued the business until the 1890s. At its height, the Mitchell Company employed 250 people and sold 400,000 publications annually.
