The common school atlas : drawn and engraved on steel : to illustrate and accompany The introduction to modern geography [cover]

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The common school atlas

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Title:
The common school atlas : drawn and engraved on steel : to illustrate and accompany The introduction to modern geography [cover]
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.
Creator:
Huntington, Nathaniel G. (Nathaniel Gilbert), 1785-1848
Contributor:
Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852
Contributor:
Reed and Barber
Name on Item:
by Nathaniel G. Huntington
Date:
[1836]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Atlases
Children's atlases
Extent:
1 page ; 27 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Hartford, Conn : Reed & Barber
Language:
English
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.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "Back to School: Geography in the Classroom" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2014-2015.
Identifier:
06_01_012148
Barcode:
39999065662775