Palestine or Canaan
Item Information
- Title:
- Palestine or Canaan
- Description:
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Copying maps onto paper was a common assignment for both girls and boys attending academies in the 19th century, as students practiced geography and penmanship simultaneously. Phebe Nichols produced her map of Palestine while a student at the Windham Phonetic School – a Quaker boarding school in Windham, Maine. As was the practice at Quaker schools, this map was executed in a plain, utilitarian style.
- Creator:
- Nichols, Phebe Ellen.
- Name on Item:
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[drawn by Phoebe Ellen Nichols, Windham Phonetic School 1853]
- Date:
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[1835]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Palestine--Maps, Manuscript
- Places:
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State of Palestine
- Extent:
- 1 ms. map : col. ; 30 x 22 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Scale:
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Not drawn to scale.
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Relief shown pictorially.
Pen-and-ink, graphite and watercolor.
Drawn by a schoolgirl at the Phonetic School in Windham Centre, Maine.
Shows areas of Israel, and lands east into modern-day Jordan.
Map accompanied by description: "Map of Palestine drawn by Phoebe Ellen Nichols at the Windham Phonetic School 1853.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Back to School: Geography in the Classroom" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2014-2015.
- Identifier:
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06_01_005739
- Call #:
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G7480 1853 .N53
- Barcode:
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39999059016855
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