Kay Guildner forwarded this to me and I thought I'd share ... Rebus atlas of New England blog by Rebecca Onion These pages from Anna Heermans' 1875 project, A Hieroglyphic Geography of the United States, tell little stories about the New England states and New York, in picture form. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., a company that then specialized in juvenile texts<http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/dutton/>, the pictorial atlas was intended for children's use-an attempt to bring life to geographical information through imagery.? http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/29/history_of_geographical_education_hieroglyphic_geography_of_the_united_states.html [http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/29/Maine.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.jpeg]<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/29/history_of_geographical_education_hieroglyphic_geography_of_the_united_states.html> History of geographical education: Hieroglyphic geography of the United States. These pages from Anna Heermans' 1875 project, A Hieroglyphic Geography of the United States, tell little stories about the New England states and New York, in picture form. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., a company that then specialized in juvenile texts, the pictorial atlas was intended for children's use-an attempt to... Read more...<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/29/history_of_geographical_education_hieroglyphic_geography_of_the_united_states.html> We also posted some photos - https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/sets/72157648294852355/# -Angie Angie Cope American Geographical Society Library UW Milwaukee Libraries 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282 / (800)558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) / (414)229-3624 (FAX) 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/agslibrary Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/
