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

by Laureen Miles Brunelli
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John Mitchell's Red Line Map of the United States - First Map United States - Walters Art Museum

"Red Line" Map - Map of the British and French Dominions in North America by John Mitchell

Courtesy of Walters Art Museum and The British Library, London
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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