Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

In the 19th century , it was vulgar practice for American school children to see geography by creating their own maps , painstakingly copy maps from exist Atlas . The event are sometimes originative reinterpretations of the world ’s geography .

Although some students still draw maps today , single-valued function - drawing was especially pop in 19th - century schools ( and especially girls ’ schoolhouse ) thanks to the influence of educational activity militant Emma Willard , who founded the Emma Willard School ( then the Troy Female Seminary ) to provide young women with the same gamy educational opportunities usable to men . Willard believed that function - making was a valuable method for learn geography , and a few artifacts of this catamenia in educational history . The US function capture a especially optimistic period in the commonwealth ’s history , a time when the land was expanding apparently inevitably west , and would stretch across the total width of the continent .

nineteenth Century Maps by Children[David Rumsey Map Collection viaMetafilter ]

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