Matthew Mariner
The latest little oddity to grace Auraria Library Digital Collections is "A School Geography: Embracing a Mathematical, Physical, and Political Description of the Earth." Our own copy is the third book in the "Eclectic Series of Geographies" line and hails from around 1880. Aside from the nifty color maps of continents and U.S. states, the book is replete with handwritten marginalia, presumably from the last young scholar to have carried it up hill--both ways--to and from school almost 150 years ago. Among the many interesting tidbits of information within are the broader points of hunting moose in Canada; the current happenings in the Kingdom of Belgium; and how lovely a place Colorado is for the ill and infirm.
