1883 Warren’s Common-School Geography
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This is an 1883 edition of Warren’s Common-School Geography, published by Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Intended for classroom use, the atlas presents a comprehensive view of the world through a series of hand-colored maps supported by explanatory text, statistics, and population tables.
The volume emphasizes international geography, with detailed maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania, each accompanied by notes on physical features, political boundaries, commerce, and natural resources. These maps reflect the global outlook of late 19th-century American education, highlighting colonial possessions, trade routes, and demographic data that connected students to a rapidly modernizing world.
In addition to its international scope, the atlas includes a special geography of New York, complete with county and city detail and population figures drawn from the 1880 census. This localized section illustrates how Warren’s series blended global perspective with material relevant to American students’ immediate surroundings.
Warren’s geographies remain important for their visual appeal and for the way they document how 19th-century Americans were taught to understand both their place in the world and the world itself.
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