The Rand-McNally Primary School Geography
date: label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: publisher
content: Rand McNally and Company
notes: label: Description
content: <i>The Rand-McNally Primary School Geography</i> is richly illustrated with drawings and diagrams, as well as maps in color. Content covers the world with an emphasis on the United States. It contains information on plant and animal life, history, anthropology and industry. The book has question-and-answer style lessons and oral exercises. The brown cover is illustrated on the front and back with a red and blue globe of the world.
label: Description
content: Rand-McNally & Company was established in Chicago in 1868 by print shop owner William Rand and printer partner Andrew McNally. The company incorporated in 1873. The company ventured into educational publishing, and began offering a line of globes, maps, and geography textbooks in 1880. It became so lucrative that they opened a textbook department in 1894 featuring their primary school geography. By 1923, the company was publishing <i>Goode School Atlas</i>, later <i>Goode’s World Atlas</i> as a standard geography text for high schools and colleges.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: associated subject
content: Geography
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.002
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.2 cm x 20.2 cm x 1.2 cm; 9 1/8 in x 7 15/16 in x 15/32 in