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Chicago, Ill.
Teachers' wages have generally been advanced. The Schools
should be properly equipped with apparatus to enable the
teachers to do their best work. Wages in most all other lines
have been advanced. We hear a lot about the high cost of
living. The cost of material is high. The cost of labor is high.
And yet, our Maps are now being sold for about seventy
cents per Map, which is lower than they were sold for, before
the War.
For over a quarter of a century we made Maps and Charts
and sold them to the trade. All the leading school supply
houses sold our goods under different names. After America
entered the War, the cost of making Maps, like other things,
advanced. The school supply houses wanted to advance the
price beyond the price to which we considered it could go with-
out cutting off the sales. As we could not agree, we are selling
the Maps ourselves.
Two things keep down the price. We sell direct and we sell
large quantities of them. We are selling more school Maps
than all the other Map Makers put together.
McCONNELL MAP COMPANY.
Office of
T. B. ALDRICH
Commissioner of Schools
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., October 2nd, 1919.
To Whom It May Concern:
The study of Geography and of History must be correlated
to be worth -while. I have found that teachers who use the
atlas most are most successful. We have purchased the expensive
Hart Historical Maps for the Carnegie Library. McConnell's
Maps are less expensive and available for School Districts.
Any live teacher can use them and really needs them to be a
successful teacher of History.
F. R. EASTERDAY,
Press. Carnegie Library Board.
SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE
1076 West Twelfth Street
Chicago, Ill.
Professors of History will find the McConnell maps a great
aid in their task. The sets are complete, covering every period
of Greek and Roman, Mediaeval and Modern, and United
States History, give the student a quicker and more thorough
grasp of the subject matter, thus stimulating interest and
assisting the memory, rendering it easy to retain what has been
learned.
ROLAND 1. KENNY, S. J.
THE ST. MEL HIGH SCHOOL
Christian Brothers
Madison Street and Kildare Avenue
Chicago
October 23, 1919.
McConnell Map Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen:
We have been using the following sets of your Maps in our
classes for the past two months: Physical, Ancient History,
Mediaeval and Modern History, and United States History.
The Brothers find them the most helpful sets of Maps we have
ever used. They are convenient to handle during the lesson
and easily transferred from one class to another. They are a
great aid in arousing interest in the history lessons and from
the standpoint of economy, I know of no sets to equal them.
Sincerely yours,
BROTHER JUSTUS,
Principal.
BATES TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
Iron River, Michigan
R. F. D. No. I
September 28, 1917.
Mr. Lagendorf,
Sec. of School Board,
Iron River, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
I have just had the pleasure of looking at the set of His-
torical Maps which the McConnell Map Co. is showing. They
are a wonderful set of maps, making the history work of the
seventh and eighth grades easier for the boys and girls. The
work as a rule seems to be difficult for the pupils of these grades
to understand. They are the best set of maps of the kind that
I have ever seen. I would like to have a set of them to use
in the Rogers School.
Very sincerely,
(Signed) A. E. BISHoP.
McMILLAN TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
Ewen, Michigan
To whom this may concern:
Have used the McConnell Maps in our schools for past two
years. They have given the best of satisfaction. We have
today placed an order for more of these Maps.
Very truly,
MARY E. LINDGREN, Secy.
Also Lwen, Mich., County F.xaminer.
County Superintendent of Schools
Iron County
Hurley, Wis., Aug. 30, 1919.
To the School Board Members of Iron County:
This is to certify that I have examined the latest set of the
McConnell Maps and wish to recommend them to any school
board. They are as complete as any set of maps could be at
this time showing the changes made by the World War. When
a set of these maps is purchased you will receive a coupon
which when sent to the company within a year from now will
entitle the school board to the new map showing the permanent
changes in boundaries in Europe. The McConnell set of maps
are worth the price of thirty-eight dollars and would be a very
valuable addition to the school equipment this year when the
World War must be taught in the history classes. I trust that
every school in Iron County can have a set of these maps.
Very truly yours,
DELLA EMUNSON.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ADAMS TOWNSHIP
Houghton County, Michigan
Painesdale, Mich., July 16, 1919.
To whom it may concern:
McConnell's Maps impress me as being very desirable for
the teacher of history and geography. In an age when the
importance of teaching the history of our own country and that
of other nations more thoroughly has been so forcefully empha-
sized by the recent war such aids to teaching as these maps,
illustrating well the essentials to be taught, will be welcomed
by the progressive teacher.
We are no longer an isolated people but our destiny is closely
wrapped up with that of other nations so it is vital that we
know the geography of the world, its resources, its possibilities,
if we are to interpret correctly other peoples. History and
geography must be well taught and McConnell's maps in my
opinion are first class aids.
CORA JEFFERS.
Mrs. F. A. Jeffers,
Painesdale, Mich.
July 28, 1919.