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Rare educational map puzzle set, published by the Educational Map Manufacturing Co. of San Francisco, "Patent Applied For".
The primary map is colored by counties and cut so that each puzzle piece is a county. At the top right, there is a topographical map, showing the state color coded by elevations.
Includes:
- Decorative covers in red faux leather with title and California Golden Bear in gold
- Key map on a thicker original board.
- Puzzle Key / List of Counties and facts
- Puzzle board and pieces, die cut by county.
- Original red cardboard box (damaged)
Rarity
This California map is completely unrecorded.
The US Copyright Office records show that J.W. Blundon of San Francisco submitted a puzzle map of the United States for copyright on January 24, 1893, which remains in the Library of Congress, described as:
1 jigsaw puzzle (39 pieces) : col., mounted on cardboard ; 34 x 56 cm., in portfolio 57 x 35 cm.
The US Map was advertised in the June 1896 Western Journal of Education and also apparently exhibited at the Report of the Industrial Exposition: 29th Industrial Exposition in 1896, with the following entry the
Educational Map Manufacturing Co.—Educational Maps.
This most useful help to the study of geography, instead of being a wallmap printed on paper, is on composition blocks of heavy strawboard subdivided into sections, each State out, following the latest surveyed State lines, each block giving the exact shape of each State accurately. The map comes in book form and contains a large amount of statistics relating to the United States, and is especially designed for use in kindergartens and schools.
In taking the map apart and putting it together one learns the exact location of each State, and forms a knowledge that permanently impresses it upon the mind the comparative area of the different States; in other words, the act of taking apart and putting together gives an object lesson in geography of this country that remains thoroughly impressed upon the minds of old and young.
We are unaware of any other examples of the US map, other than the one acquired at the same time as the present map of California: https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/62953
