Nice find Michael. In my view its an interesting topic and not well understood how adept young people were meant to be in a variety of map related pursuits in the early 1900s. In the UK, Australia etc the ‘boys’ own’ annuals are another good source. Along with a regular diet of heroes and villains, ‘strange’ lands and people, and the latest technology,  tuition in recon and mapping were regular topics in compilations such as The Boy’s Own Annual, The Australian Boy’s Annual, The Empire Annual for Boys, Chums and others. Early Scouting publications are another possibility - ‘Real Scouts must be able to read a map’, and better still how to make one.



I’d be interested in seeing a few sample images if you contact me offline – our holdings of TBM don’t go back that far.



Thanks,

Martin





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Today I was loaned all three volumes of The Boy Mechanic.  They were published in 1913, 1915, and 1919.  In Book 2 the first article is "Plane Table Surveying," by Harold G. McGee.  This one is the only thing I have found so far about maps, but from a two-minute glance at each of them, drafting and drafting tools are a part of being a boy a century ago. Might there be any interest in republishing articles like this, about how to make maps at home?  I can imagine it being done in some high schools.



I'll try to have the pages copied (my scanner is dead), but I will have these books for only a few days.







Michael Holt











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