Rand-McNally Grammar School Geography Illustrated with Diagrams, Colored Maps, and Engravings, Prepared Expressly for this Work
date: label: date made
content: 1897
label: date made
content: 1899
name: label: maker
content: Rand McNally and Company
notes: label: Description
content: <i>The Rand-McNally Grammar School Geography</i> textbook contains detailed chapters on all 50 states and each continent. It discusses the topography, climate, industries, and population of each country and region. With a 19th Century perspective, the Preface declares that "Geography, as taught in schools, …has come to be a study of the earth as adapted to the wants of man." Its 167 pages contain numerous maps and illustrations, most in black and white. The Appendix is devoted to Kansas, as this is the Kansas Edition. The front cover contains a blue and red globe depicting the Western Hemisphere, while the back cover's image depicts the Eastern Hemisphere.
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content: Rand-McNally & Company was established in Chicago in 1868 by print shop owner William Rand and 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 this <i>Primary School Geography</i>. 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.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kansas, Topeka
topic: label: associated subject
content: Geography
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: The Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3127.19
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content: 2014.3127
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content: 2014.3127.19
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content: book
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content: Books
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content: books
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 10 in x 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 25.4 cm x 1.27 cm