According to this print of Occupations (which includes charts concerning "Total Females Occupied" and "Increase in Occupations"), there were more women engaged in "useful occupations" in New York than in any other state in 1880. (if you go by ratio instead of total number, South Carolina takes the cake.) But what was considered a "useful occupation" in 1880? This chart of Occupations by Race and Nationality provides some clues. Plus,...
If you google "superior instruction of women," the top two hits are our Education print and the same print over at our sister site, Handsome Atlas. This is bad news if you want to find out more about what the makers of this map ("Charles Scribner's sons," evidently) meant, as I did. But it is very good news for anyone who'd like to start her very own School for the Superior Instruction of Women:...
