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Young European women also practiced geography in school-settings during the early 19th-century. This map of North America by Louisa Pinchon of Elbeuf, France, a village on the Seine River fifty miles northwest of Paris, may well have been part of a larger collection, as evidenced by the fold marks along the center of the sheet. Louisa signed her work under a cartouche comprised of tobacco leaves, grown extensively in Cuba and the southeastern United States. Geographic education at the time often included lessons on natural and cultural resources of an area, and most likely played a role in the mapmaker's design.
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Document identity
localId
x059cd06q
label
Amérique du Nord
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
x059cd06q
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Amérique du Nord
description
Young European women also practiced geography in school-settings during the early 19th-century. This map of North America by Louisa Pinchon of Elbeuf, France, a village on the Seine River fifty miles northwest of Paris, may well have been part of a larger collection, as evidenced by the fold marks along the center of the sheet. Louisa signed her work under a cartouche comprised of tobacco leaves, grown extensively in Cuba and the southeastern United States. Geographic education at the time often included lessons on natural and cultural resources of an area, and most likely played a role in the mapmaker's design.
date
["[1880]"]
year
1880
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
French
identifierLocal
06_01_005737
creators
Pinchon, Louisa.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
North America--Maps, Manuscript
subjectsGeographic
North America
North and Central America
genreBasic
Maps
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
58.166
schema:longitude
-104.466
extent
1 ms. map : col. ; 29 x 42 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Manuscript map in pen-and-ink and watercolor, drawn by a schoolgirl.
Date based on that shown on companion map.
Companion map to author's Amérique du Sud [G5200 1880 .P56].
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no
dcId
x059cd06q
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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