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Insets distinguish Gaul in Caesar’s time and selected frontier regions.", "depictedPeriod": "Roman imperial regional reference, with separate historical insets", "publishedYear": 1911, "creationDateNote": "No separate drawing date is established here; 1911 is the verified atlas publication date, not the period depicted.", "creator": "William R. Shepherd (atlas compiler); Velhagen & Klasing (printed credit; no individual draughtsman identified)", "publication": "Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.", "pages": "38–39", "grades": "Grades 6–12; guided comparison for upper elementary.", "caution": "Provinces and frontiers changed over centuries. The main imperial reference is not a map of the early Republic or of every event in Caesar’s life. Use each inset’s own heading and date.", "activity": "Locate Rome and the Rhine. 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Shepherd (atlas compiler); V. & K. (printed abbreviated credit; no individual draughtsman identified)", "publication": "Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.", "pages": "49", "grades": "Grades 3–12; younger children with an adult. Place names are small at thumbnail size.", "caution": "Published in 1911, not at the dates of these stories. It offers broad physical orientation, not a guide to every real village or a map of invented places. Historical labels and the title “British Isles” are retained from the source.", "activity": "Find the uplands of northwest England and compare them with southeastern England. 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This is a visual companion to questions about labor, growing towns, and public life in Dickens.", "depictedPeriod": "Industrial England since 1750; England and Wales in 1832", "publishedYear": 1911, "creationDateNote": "No separate drawing date is established here; 1911 is the verified atlas publication date, not the period depicted.", "creator": "William R. Shepherd (atlas compiler); Velhagen & Klasing (printed credit; no individual draughtsman identified)", "publication": "Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.", "pages": "162–163", "grades": "Grades 7–12; upper-elementary map comparisons with an adult.", "caution": "The left panel summarizes an extended industrial era; the right is specifically 1832. Do not treat every industrial label as a snapshot of that year. Coketown is fictional, not a place located on this map.", "activity": "Compare the industrial regions with the 1832 representation panel. What question about political representation could you investigate without pretending the map alone proves the answer?", "relationship": "For industrial and reform-era background; no precise fictional route or town identification is supplied.", "alt": "A two-panel 1911 atlas sheet comparing industrial England since 1750 with parliamentary representation in England and Wales in 1832.", "source": { "institution": "University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection", "itemUrl": "https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/shepherd-c-162-163.jpg", "catalogUrl": "https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1911.html", "titlePageUrl": "https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/shepherd-b-01.jpg", "creditLine": "From William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911). 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