The American nation:
A school history of the United States, compiled by Albert Bushnell Hart and David Maydole Matteson and published in New York and London by Harper & Brothers in 1904, aimed at students. Its pictures are plain black-and-white maps with shaded regions, dotted boundary lines, and small place labels, showing colonial settlement, the Loyalist legislation by degree of severity, and western land claims. A designer could take from them a restrained cartographic vocabulary of hatched tones, dashed borders, and serif lettering for historical diagrams.
