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A Window on the World: Views of 19th Century Life in American Schoolbooks, 1823-1852

Olney's Modern Geography, 1841. Image courtesy of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library.

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Detail from the previous slide showing the illustration over the list of canals. The picture shows a boat being pulled by a string of three horses through a canal in a hilly region.