COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Baker, Harriet E.
Date:
1819
Short Title:
Description of : United States of America
Publisher:
Manuscript
Publisher Location:
Windsor, Vermont.
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
25
Obj Width cm:
19
Note:
Geographical description of the United States. Hand lettered text.
Reference:
(Regarding the Henshaw Book, our 2501.000) - Bethany Nowviskie, “‘Inventing the Map’ in the Digital Humanities (A Young Lady’s Primer).” in Visualizing the Archive, special issue of Poetess Archive Journal, vol 2. no. 1, 2010: 1-46.
Country:
United States
Subject:
School
Subject:
Children's Maps
Full Title:
(Description of ) United States of America. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No:
8307.017
Page No:
17
Series No:
17
Publication Author:
Baker, Harriet E.
Pub Date:
1819
Pub Title:
Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Maps. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
Pub Reference:
None found.
Pub Note:
The existence of this book of penmanship throws interesting light on our other book of penmanship by Frances Henshaw, our 2501.000. This book by Harriet Baker is dated four years earlier, 1819, and from another school in Windsor, Vermont (Henshaw's school was in Middlebury, Vermont). Generally, the two books follow very similar structure, both the text and the maps, which would indicate that the production of these books of penmanship was more frequent than previously thought and also suggests that there was a common template used, even by different schools, in their construction. It can be said that Baker's maps are exquisite, perhaps a bit more so than Henshaw's, but Henshaw's text descriptions of the states are more elaborate than Baker's. For some reason, Baker omits maps of New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, while including descriptions of most of them. Henshaw has no map or description of Michigan or Illinois. For the sources of the maps and text, see our entry for Henshaw's book, 2501.000. The Osher Map Library has a copy of another book of penmanship, also from Mr. Dunham's School in Windsor Vermont, titled “Catharine M. Cook’s Book of Penmanship at Mr. Dunham’s School, Windsor, Vermont, June 15th, 1818”
Pub List No:
8307.000
Pub Type:
Manuscript Map
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
14
Pub Height cm:
25
Pub Width cm:
20
Image No:
8307017.jp2
Authors:
Baker, Harriet E.
Link To Source
Description of : United States of America
