While teaching at a school for young women, he saw the need for a geography textbook oriented to the forming nation.
It was initially established to produce graphic materials and geography textbooks for educational purposes.
Mitchell worked as a teacher before turning to publish geography textbooks and maps.
Geography tends to be get blended into a block curriculum; we don't have a geography textbook in the whole building.
His geography textbook might tell him something about the part of the country that he was entering.
It was as if she'd suddenly developed a photographic memory and each page of the geography textbook was stored in her head.
Today it is possible to experience places and events which even thirty years ago could only be seen on the pages of geography textbooks.
He also wrote some geography textbooks for schools together with other scholars.
His wife died in 1995, and his brother, Richard, author of a prominent geography textbook, in 1992.
The geography textbook for the 3rd grade of elementary school, in 1911, said: