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Back to School: This school atlas from the early decades of the 19th century provided visual aids in the form of maps to supplement geography textbooks. At this time, geography textbooks were constructed as catechisms – long passages of text from which the student was to read from and then answer questions. These paragraphs on countries listed places and natural features such as mountains and rivers. This type of rote memorization was common in teaching methods of the time. The school atlas displayed here contains maps which would help students answer questions, and illustrations which depict historical events to supplement their geographical learning.
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Document identity
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3f463193z
label
The common school atlas
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
id
3f463193z
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
The common school atlas
description
Back to School: This school atlas from the early decades of the 19th century provided visual aids in the form of maps to supplement geography textbooks. At this time, geography textbooks were constructed as catechisms – long passages of text from which the student was to read from and then answer questions. These paragraphs on countries listed places and natural features such as mountains and rivers. This type of rote memorization was common in teaching methods of the time. The school atlas displayed here contains maps which would help students answer questions, and illustrations which depict historical events to supplement their geographical learning.
date
["[1836]"]
year
1836
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_012148
creators
Huntington, Nathaniel G. (Nathaniel Gilbert), 1785-1848
Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852
Reed and Barber
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Atlases
Children's atlases
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Hartford, Conn
publisher
Reed & Barber
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
extent
1 page ; 27 cm.
notes
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1836, by Eleazar Huntington, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
Title from cover.
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no
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3f463193z
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map
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1
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