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The colonies in 1660, Virginia, Maryland, and the Dutch and Swedish settlements on the Delaware showing extent and dates of settlement

1 pp 1905

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The common school atlas

1 pp 1836

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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The cotton kingdom

1 pp 1863

During the antebellum period, cotton was considered “king“ in the South, as it was the region’s predominant cash crop. Cotton cultivation began in coastal South Carolina, but with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, spread rapidly as far west as Texas. Requiring fertile soil and an extensive growing season, there was a northern geographic limit to cotton cultivation. This boundary is suggested by the “mean summer temperature“ line on this detailed statistical map delineating the major areas of cotton production. Published by Brookline resident Edward Atkinson, this map was one of many documents about cotton that he authored. An executive officer for a number of Boston area textile factories, Atkinson was also an ardent abolitionist and wrote numerous tracts advocating cotton cultivation with free labor.

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The counti of Warwick the shire towne and citie of Coventre described

1 pp 1676

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The counties of Southern California

1 pp 1890

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The countries of the Caribbean

1 pp 1922

Relief shown by gradient tints and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints.

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The country around Herat

1 pp 1885

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The country of So red the rose, by Stark Young, Scribners

1 pp 1935

Pictorial map showing characters and places from Young's So red the rose.

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The country round Washington

1 pp 1863

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The cross and the crescent--Harper's pictorial map of the seat of the war in the east

1 pp 1877

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The eagle map of the United States

1 pp 1833

In this unusual map, one pictorial image -- an eagle -- was superimposed on a map of the United States. The author of the accompanying geography book stated that the map was designed to serve as a memory device for young students learning the country's geography and history. He explained that the eagle was selected for its visual and iconic appeal. The author also made the point that secession could disfigure this national icon, suggesting that the map was intended to promote unity at a time when political debates about tariffs, slavery, and states' rights were part of the national discourse.

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The eclipse map of the seat of war, between France and Prussia, 1870

1 pp 1870