# Eagle Map of the United States Engraved For Rudiments of National Knowledge, edit

- By: Isaac W. Moore (engraving) / Published by E. L. Carey & A. Hart, Philadelphia
- Date: 1833
- Classification: Photograph
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- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle_Map_of_the_United_States_Engraved_For_Rudiments_of_National_Knowledge,_edit.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Eagle_Map_of_the_United_States_Engraved_For_Rudiments_of_National_Knowledge%2C_edit.jpg/1920px-Eagle_Map_of_the_United_States_Engraved_For_Rudiments_of_National_Knowledge%2C_edit.jpg
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Eagle Map of the United States Engraved For Rudiments of National Knowledge.

Famous map of the United States in the shape of an Eagle, from an extremely rare geography book, Rudiments of National Knowledge, Presented To The Youth Of The United States, And To Enquiring Foreigners. By A Citizen Of Pennsylvania." Published by E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Philadelphia, 1833.

The map represents America as an eagle; the states are shown in outline color with the eagle transparently sitting atop the nation. The eagle's head coincides with New England (except Maine), its eye with Vermont, its neckline follows Lakes Ontario and Erie, and the wing outlines Lakes Huron and Superior (and further west the eventual Canadian-American border at the 49th parallel). The eagle's breast follows the Atlantic seaboard; its talons form Florida - though the claws protrude far from the coastline towards Cuba. The great inland empire of Louisiana is already being divided into states and territories, with Louisiana and Missouri separated from the 'mainland' of the formerly French lands. The tail feathers are shaped to follow a border that would not exist after 1848. Texas is labeled and illustrated just before…