Appraisal: 1823 Schoolgirl United States Map
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Appraisal: 1823 Schoolgirl United States Map
See Laura Ten Eyck appraise a 1823 schoolgirl United States map in Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: 1823 Schoolgirl United States Map
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See Laura Ten Eyck appraise a 1823 schoolgirl United States map in Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: It's a family piece.
The person who generated it was a, uh, either fourth or fifth great-aunt.
APPRAISER: Do you know how old she was when she did the map?
Do you have any ideas?
GUEST: I think she was in her early teens-- 13, 14.
APPRAISER: It's a manuscript map.
Everything has been done by hand, and it's called The United States by Eliza Ann Oliver.
She drew the map in March either 24 or 29-- we can't read her calligraphy there-- 1823.
So it's very early, and it, it shows the United States and territories at the time.
It's what's called a schoolgirl map.
It represents a shift in 19th-century education for women.
They were educated outside of the home.
Female academies were established.
One of the methods that they used for teaching was maps, and it was a mnemonic device to teach calligraphy, geography, and penmanship.
Her craft of handwriting, you can see her, she's so talented.
She's using at least three different fonts, and she has taken a lot of care with river systems.
And also something I've never seen before is, she has rendered topography with little curls.
So she's rendered mountains in three dimensions.
This map is particularly accomplished and would have taken a long time to create.
This is one of the largest examples I've seen of the so-called schoolgirl map craze.
The craze took place from, I would say, the 1810s to about the 1840s, because by that time, commercially printed maps were available.
So it's just a small window in time when these maps were made.
One other thing I wanted to point out that, is that Eliza won an award.
She got a city award from Boston.
In a retail setting, I would put a value on it between $5,000 and $7,000.
GUEST: Very nice.
APPRAISER: It's a masterpiece.
GUEST: Thank you.
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 3m 13s | Appraisal: Ming Dynasty Bronze Guanyin, ca. 1620 (3m 13s)
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 7s | Appraisal: PEZ Dispenser Collection with Store Display, ca. 1975 (1m 7s)
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 58s | Appraisal: Uncle Sam Cast-iron Doorstop, ca. 1915 (2m 58s)
Preview: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Hour 2
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