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Maine, Atlas of the US, Printed for the Use of the Blind (1837). All photos through David Rumsey Map Associates
A couple of decade after French educator Louis Braille invented the eponymous system for blind and sight-impaired readers, the New England Establishment for Schooling of the Blind launched its personal embossed designs permitting these with low or no imaginative and prescient entry to essential data. Beneath the management of Samuel Gridley Howe, the college, which is now the Perkins School for the Blind, acquired a printing press in 1835 and commenced to create quite a lot of studying supplies with raised writing for its college students. A kind of books was an atlas of the US, which held touchable cartography inside its pages.
Paired with descriptions written in commonplace Latin script—this proved way more tough to learn than braille and by no means gained the recognition of its counterpart—the maps include typical data like longitude and latitude, together with the realm’s inhabitants, local weather, and commerce. Stable strains denote rivers, a singular raised shoreline buttressed by parallel strains represents oceans, and clustered triangles are mountains. Printed in 1837 in an version of fifty, this model of the atlas incorporates simply 24 states. Solely 4 copies are recognized to stay.
Flip by means of digital scans of the e book at David Rumsey Map Associates. (through Kottke)
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
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