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Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Title Page to) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Maps. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.002
Note
The existence of this book of penmanship throws interesting light on our other book of penmanship by Frances Henshaw, our 2501.000. This book by Harriet Baker is dated four years earlier, 1819, and from another school in Windsor, Vermont (Henshaw's school was in Middlebury, Vermont). Generally, the two books follow very similar structure, both the text and the maps, which would indicate that the production of these books of penmanship was more frequent than previously thought and also suggests that there was a common template used, even by different schools, in their construction. It can be said that Baker's maps are exquisite, perhaps a bit more so than Henshaw's, but Henshaw's text descriptions of the states are more elaborate than Baker's. For some reason, Baker omits maps of New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, while including descriptions of most of them. Henshaw has no map or description of Michigan or Illinois. For the sources of the maps and text, see our entry for Henshaw's book, 2501.000. The Osher Map Library has a copy of another book of penmanship, also from Mr. Dunham's School in Windsor Vermont, titled “Catharine M. Cook’s Book of Penmanship at Mr. Dunham’s School, Windsor, Vermont, June 15th, 1818”
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Description of) New Hampshire. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.019
Note
A short description of the state of New Hampshire. Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
New Hampshire. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.020
Note
Outline color map by county. Showing cities and towns, and rivers.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Description of) Connecticut. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.025
Note
A short description of the state of Connecticut surrounded by vines. Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
Connecticut. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.026
Note
Outline color map by county. Showing cities and towns, and rivers. Relief shown by hachures.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Description of) New Jersey. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.031
Note
A short description of the state of New jersey. Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
New Jersey. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.032
Note
Outline color map by county, with decorative cartouche. Showing cities and towns, and rivers. Relief shown by hachures.
Author
Ordway, Eliza S.
Full Title
Map Of The United States. Eliza S. Ordway.
List No
2454.000
Note
Date is approximate, estimated by Howard Welsh. Probably a school project. With black top and bottom rollers. Without color.
Author
American Publishing Company
Full Title
Rambles Through Our Country. An Instructive Geographical Game For The Young. Copyright Secured 1881. American Publishing Company. Hartford, Conn. 1886.
List No
3886.000
Note
This is meant to accompany a board game with a map of the United States (see our #5086). However, it functions as a geography of the U.S. by itself. In full color.
Author
Anonymous
Full Title
United States.
List No
5442.000
Note
Outline color hand drawn map by a young student. A silk blue border has been sown onto map with silk hooks for hanging. Date estimated from geography of the west.
Author
[Fitch, George W., Weeks, Lydia S.]
Full Title
United States. Drawn by (to be filled in. By George W. Fitch. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, 115 Nassau Street. Entered ... 1850, by Huntington and Savage ... New York)
List No
0289.002
Note
Printed map form with title, grid lines and numbers or "mapping plate." Map data added including relief by hachures in pen-and-ink by Lydia S. Weeks. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(Covers to) Frances A. Henshaw's Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy April 29, 1823.
List No
2501A
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(Title Page to) Frances A. Henshaw's Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy April 29, 1823.
List No
2501B
Note
Exquisite hand drawn maps of the states. Notwithstanding the title, this is a geography book hand drawn by a very promising student. It includes descriptions of Astronomical Geography, the Ptolemaic, Brahean and Copernican Systems, Comets, Great Circles, Equator, Meridian, Horizon, Colures, Tropics, Polar Circles, Zones, Climates, Latitude and Longitude, a section titled America, and 19 maps of the states with a descriptive page for each. The maps are copied from the 1805 edition of Carey's American Pocket Atlas, except for Ohio, which is from Arrowsmith and Lewis' Atlas, 1812, and Indiana, from an unknown source. The text is copied from Morse's Geography Made Easy, probably 1807, 11th edition, but certainly before the 12th edition (which was changed substantially); the text describing the maps is original. The only mystery is why she used such out of date sources if, in fact, she made this book in 1823. The penmanship is remarkable both in the execution of the maps and text. One of a kind. At the bottom of the title page: "presented to her son T.A. Post - Feb 4th 1872." Emma Willard led the Middlebury Female Academy from 1807-9, see DAB. Henshaw lived from 1809-1873 (email from her great-great-great-grandson to us) so she would have been about 14 years old when she made these maps in 1823.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Astronomical Geography.
List No
2501V
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
On the several Astronomical Systems. The Ptolemaic System.
List No
2501W
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
The Brahean System. Middlebury Vermont.
List No
2501X
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
The Copernican System.
List No
2501Y
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
The Comets.
List No
2501Z
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Doctrine of the Spheres. Great Circles. Less Circles.
List No
2501AA
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(Circles continued).
List No
2501AB
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Axis and Poles of the Earth. Equator. Meridian.
List No
2501AC
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Horizon.
List No
2501AD
Note
Handlettered text. Lists astonomical signs, English names, characters, and months.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Colures. Tropics.
List No
2501AE
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Polar Circles. Zones.
List No
2501AF
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
Climates. Latitude. Longitude.
List No
2501AG
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
America.
List No
2501AH
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(America continued).
List No
2501AI
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(America continued).
List No
2501AJ
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(America continued).
List No
2501AK
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(America continued).
List No
2501AL
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Henshaw, Frances A.
Full Title
(America continued).
List No
2501AM
Note
Handlettered text.
Author
Gilman, Frances P.
Full Title
United States. Frances P. Gilman.
List No
3136.000
Note
Child's hand drawn outline color map of the U.S. circa 1838. Copied from Olney's School Atlas, probably the 1838 edition.
Author
Scott, Bradford
Full Title
United States of America by Bradford Scott 1816.
List No
3542.002
Note
In outline color.
Author
Symonds, Maria
Full Title
United States. Maria Symonds. Topsfield Academy. 1830.
List No
3602.000
Note
This map bears a strong resemblance to both Benjamin Warner's United States of 1820 and John Melish's United States of 1822 (although Melish's does not cover the west coast). This is very well drawn, backed with linen and varnished, outline color map.
Full Title
United States of America. (By Frances Bowen. 1810)
List No
4871.022
Note
Manuscript map. Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Covers to) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Maps. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.001
Note
The existence of this book of penmanship throws interesting light on our other book of penmanship by Frances Henshaw, our 2501.000. This book by Harriet Baker is dated four years earlier, 1819, and from another school in Windsor, Vermont (Henshaw's school was in Middlebury, Vermont). Generally, the two books follow very similar structure, both the text and the maps, which would indicate that the production of these books of penmanship was more frequent than previously thought and also suggests that there was a common template used, even by different schools, in their construction. It can be said that Baker's maps are exquisite, perhaps a bit more so than Henshaw's, but Henshaw's text descriptions of the states are more elaborate than Baker's. For some reason, Baker omits maps of New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, while including descriptions of most of them. Henshaw has no map or description of Michigan or Illinois. For the sources of the maps and text, see our entry for Henshaw's book, 2501.000. The Osher Map Library has a copy of another book of penmanship, also from Mr. Dunham's School in Windsor Vermont, titled “Catharine M. Cook’s Book of Penmanship at Mr. Dunham’s School, Windsor, Vermont, June 15th, 1818”
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Astronomical Geography. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.003
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Ptolemaic System. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.004
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Brahean System. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.005
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Of the several Astronomical Systems. Harriet E.aker. Windsor Vermont. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.006
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Doctrine of the Spheres. Great Circles. Less Circles. Axis and Poles of the Earth. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.007
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) The twelve signs. Horizon. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.008
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Torrid zone. Frigid zone. Temperate zone. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.009
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Blank Page
List No
8307.054
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Tropics. Polar Circles. Zones. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.010
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) Latitude. Longitude. Climate. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.011
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) America. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.012
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) America. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.013
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) America. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.014
Note
Hand lettered text.
Author
Baker, Harriet E.
Full Title
(Text Page to) America. (to accompany) Harriet E. Baker's Book of Penmanship & Map. At Mr. Dunham's School Windsor Vermont March 31, 1819.
List No
8307.015
Note
Hand lettered text.
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