Accession No

5441

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting crop distribution in the U.S.A. (Waller), by Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1940mm; height 1363mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘CROP DISTRIBUTION 1909.
in the
United States
(U.S. Agril. yearbook 1915 - Waller, Crop Centres of U.S.
Am. Jowin Agnon. 1918) (below map)

Description Notes

Map of the United States, depicting crop distribution. Map is an outline, with states marked by broken black lines. Map has coloured dots on, which represent types of crop. Six colours are used. There is a key in the bottom right corner. This reads:
‘Spring wheat Purple
Winter wheat Yellow
Corn (maize) Red
Cotton Blue
Tame Grasses (Hay) Green
Wild Prairie Grasses Black’.
Insciption runs below the map.

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