I thought you might find this blog post from the Library of Congress interesting. It's about teaching geography and maps to children in the early 1900s.
Cheers,
Louise Ratliff
Retired UCLA map cataloger
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Philip Lee Phillips Society Meets Peter Parley, a Geographer for Children
This is a guest post by Jackie Coleburn, Rare Book Cataloger at the Library of Congress. Did Philip Lee Phillips study Peter Parley geography books when he was a child? This is a detail of his personal history we may never know. Philip Lee Phillips (1857–1924) was the first Superintendent of Maps when the Hall …
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