Hello all,

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

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Library of Congress <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 7:17 AM
Subject: Library of Congress Daily Digest Bulletin
To: <[log in to unmask]>


Library of Congress
Philip Lee Phillips Society Meets Peter Parley, a Geographer for Children
06/02/2023
Philip Lee Phillips Society Meets Peter Parley, a Geographer for Children
06/02/2023 03:22 PM EDT

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 …
library of congress
facebook   twitter   youtube   instagram   flickr   pinterest

Home  |  About  |  Contact

Subscriber Preferences & Unsubscribe | Subscriber Help

 
This email was sent to [log in to unmask] using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: Library of Congress · 101 Independence Ave, SE · Washington, DC 20540 · 202-707-5000