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The "Red Line" Map, First Map of U.S.

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John Mitchell's Red Line Map of the United States - First Map United States - Walters Art Museum
Courtesy of Walters Art Museum and The British Library, London
"Red Line" Map - Map of the British and French Dominions in North America by John Mitchell
1755
Printed map, hand colored with handwritten annotations
The very first map of the United States, as annotated with a red line around the former colonies for the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution, outlines the beginnings of democracy in the modern world.

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