| Summary: | Relief prints--wood engravings; Illustrated with wood engravings, some uncolored, some hand colored. This page depicts a map of North America, including the United States, Mexico, Yucatan, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Greenland, and Iceland. British America and Russian America are also included (now Canada and Alsaska, respectively). This is a revised edition. Education in America began to change in the middle of the nineteenth century as graded classrooms began replacing one-room schoolhouses. Textbooks also became differentiated according to grade level with authors attempting to ensure that the content was appropriate for each grade level. Cornell noted that the maps in existing textbooks were not appropriate for the use of elementary students because they were, "…covered with circles, lines, and various names and emblems, mysterious to the student, irrelevant to his stage of progress…a waste of time." As a result, Cornell and others changed the maps in their elementary textbooks by limiting the number of place names, using clearer fonts, and developing sets of map questions specific to each map. Sarah S. Cornell was one of the leading cartographers of her time and one of the few women in the profession. This book was a gift of Edward W. Allen. Textbooks; Geography and travel;
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