Geography notebooks of two young women pupil-teachers

by Women's Education, Pupil Teacher Mary Barker, Allison Jane

$2,250 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

United Kingdom : 1870 and 1865. Geography notebook of Mary Barker: Quarter black roan over marbled boards measuring 9 x 7 inches. Comprised of a calligraphic title and frontis plus 59 hand drawn-and-colored maps done by a young woman in her first three years of teacher training. Throughout, Mary annotates on the margins which year and term she is in and occasionally notes that the map was drawn From Memory ; and each map has penciled corrections and assessments.

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