"Nature in Descending Regions" from Levi Walter Yaggy's 1887 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑜—𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝘩𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑦. This popular set of maps and charts was intended for use in classrooms. Each page was 2 feet by 3 feet in size!
@johncarlosbaez Still – these are such eye-catching works of art! I would have loved to have had such pretty illustrations festooning the walls of my childhood classrooms. Mostly, we had rather bleak-looking posters with empty "motivational phrases" hung up.
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