Atlas for the Blind

The map below — from the “Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind” — was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Braille was invented in 1825, but this atlas uses embossed letters for place names as well as longitude and latitude. The map is from the David Rumsey Map Collection — they have over 32,000 map and map-related items online. You can see all the pages they have from the Atlas here.

First map (of Maine) in an 1837 Atlas of the United States for the Use of the Blind.