National Historical Chart, in sections, plus original rollers.
National Historical Chart, in sections, plus original rollers.
[Long Prairie, MN: National Historical Chart Company, 1891]
Color-printed lithograph, 15¾ inches in height, originally issued on 6 conjoined sheets in one 20-foot scroll, presently cut neatly into 6 segments from 38 to 48 inches in length, linen-backed as issued; moderate wear on top edge and elsewhere, a few short tears. With the two original matching wooden roller cases with operational metal cranks and fixtures, 19¼ inches long plus cranks, and about 3 inches round, minor wear.
This enormous chart shows the full scope of the history of the United States in graphic form from 1775 to 1891. It is arranged by presidential administration, and shows the evolution of the political parties and the admission of each state. Key events are described and illustrated.
Other examples of this chart bear an inked copyright statement dated 1890, but they all list deaths through General Sherman in February 1891, and show 1892 as the end of Benjamin Harrison's first term (likely in anticipation of the next election).
No author or place of publication is given, but newspaper notices show that George N. Bressler of Long Prairie, MN was exhibiting a draft as early as 14 August 1890 (per the Sauk Centre Herald), and that he was a partner in the National Historical Chart Company when it was incorporated (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 14 October 1890). The first mention we find of the completed product is in the Wadena (MN) Pioneer Journal of 16 April 1891, when a salesman exhibited one to a local school board; it was found to be "a very handy affair for schools." The company continued to promote it actively through 1894.
2 in OCLC (Indiana University and Princeton), and only one traced at auction (the one now at Princeton).
Provenance: Irma Elizabeth Schlobohm Lowe (1914-2010), who taught 3rd grade in Findlay and Sullivan, IL from 1935 until her 1939 marriage, and later taught at schools for the deaf in Illinois; gift from Lowe's daughter to the mother of the consignor.
National Historical Chart, in sections, plus original rollers.
[Long Prairie, MN: National Historical Chart Company, 1891]
Color-printed lithograph, 15¾ inches in height, originally issued on 6 conjoined sheets in one 20-foot scroll, presently cut neatly into 6 segments from 38 to 48 inches in length, linen-backed as issued; moderate wear on top edge and elsewhere, a few short tears. With the two original matching wooden roller cases with operational metal cranks and fixtures, 19¼ inches long plus cranks, and about 3 inches round, minor wear.
This enormous chart shows the full scope of the history of the United States in graphic form from 1775 to 1891. It is arranged by presidential administration, and shows the evolution of the political parties and the admission of each state. Key events are described and illustrated.
Other examples of this chart bear an inked copyright statement dated 1890, but they all list deaths through General Sherman in February 1891, and show 1892 as the end of Benjamin Harrison's first term (likely in anticipation of the next election).
No author or place of publication is given, but newspaper notices show that George N. Bressler of Long Prairie, MN was exhibiting a draft as early as 14 August 1890 (per the Sauk Centre Herald), and that he was a partner in the National Historical Chart Company when it was incorporated (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 14 October 1890). The first mention we find of the completed product is in the Wadena (MN) Pioneer Journal of 16 April 1891, when a salesman exhibited one to a local school board; it was found to be "a very handy affair for schools." The company continued to promote it actively through 1894.
2 in OCLC (Indiana University and Princeton), and only one traced at auction (the one now at Princeton).
Provenance: Irma Elizabeth Schlobohm Lowe (1914-2010), who taught 3rd grade in Findlay and Sullivan, IL from 1935 until her 1939 marriage, and later taught at schools for the deaf in Illinois; gift from Lowe's daughter to the mother of the consignor.
