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Source Description
This manuscript, or hand drawn, map of the United States, was made by a Connecticut girl most likely as a school assignment when she was roughly twelve years old. Laura Roys may have been a student at the Hartford Female Seminary ? an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut, founded by Catherine Beecher. Copying or tracing maps onto paper was a common assignment for both girls and boys attending academies in the 19th century, as students simultaneously practiced geography, and the necessary skill of penmanship. Miss Roys? United States map displayed here has similarities to a map of the country produced for the Senate in 1855. A map of the state of Connecticut from 1857, also drawn by Roys when she was a student, is in the Leventhal Map Center collection.
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Document identity
localId
0r96fn93f
label
United States
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
0r96fn93f
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
United States
description
This manuscript, or hand drawn, map of the United States, was made by a Connecticut girl most likely as a school assignment when she was roughly twelve years old. Laura Roys may have been a student at the Hartford Female Seminary ? an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut, founded by Catherine Beecher. Copying or tracing maps onto paper was a common assignment for both girls and boys attending academies in the 19th century, as students simultaneously practiced geography, and the necessary skill of penmanship. Miss Roys? United States map displayed here has similarities to a map of the country produced for the Senate in 1855. A map of the state of Connecticut from 1857, also drawn by Roys when she was a student, is in the Leventhal Map Center collection.
date
["1858"]
year
1858
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_016040
creators
Roys, Laura A.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
United States--Maps
Manuscript maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
38
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 manuscript map : hand color ; 31 x 39 cm
notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Manuscript map in ink by a schoolgirl. State boundaries outlined in color.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
0r96fn93f
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
3a0cd5db8b924268