What did teenagers do earlier prison theatre mobile telephone phones, video games together with the internet?
I know - they made maps.
At to the lowest degree that what Frances Alsop Henshaw was doing inward the 1820's. Henshaw's 'Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy' contains a release of hand-drawn maps of nineteenth century America.
Neatline.org has used its map timeline tool to do an interactive presentation of Henshaw's beautiful hand-drawn maps. 'Inventing the Map': Frances Henshaw’s Book of Penmanship uses the Google Maps API to overlay Henshaw's nineteenth century maps on today's map of America.
The accompanying text for each map places Henshaw's map exercises into the context of her teaching together with the detail influence of educational reformer Emma Willard.
