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The Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union is an organizational chart of the Federal Government and the American Union designed by N. Mendal Shafer, and published circa July 15, 1862.〔(Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, attorney and counseller at law, office no. 5 Masonic Temple, Cincinnati ) at Library of Congress. Accessed 15.01.2015.〕〔New York (N.Y.). Board of Education (1864) ''(Journal of the Board of Education of the City of New York. )'' p. 108〕 By the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the political landscape was radically altered and the diagram was probably outdated. The diagram eventually ended up in the archives of the US Library of Congress. == Overview == The Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union was intended to show the whole of the US Federal government and the relationships between its different parts. It shows the outline of 42 states and Indian Territory, a Civil War battle scene, and Liberty holding U.S. flag and sword riding on the back of an eagle, Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet (the secretaries linked to images of the Army, Navy, Treasury, Interior, P.O. Dept., and State Department) representing the "Executive" branch, the Senate and the House of Representatives representing the "Legislative" branch, and the Supreme Court representing the "Judicial" branch of the federal government. Also, its portraits of "The seven builders and leading spirits of the revolution."〔 The diagram is designed by Noah Mendal Shafer, who was an attorney, counsellor at law and inventor. He held office at Masonic Temple in Cincinnati. Onion (2014) interpreted that Mendal Shafer aimed "to end the conflict between North and South through education. 'The object' of the chart, Shafer writes, 'is to make the subject of Government familiar to the masses.' Familiarity, he intimates, would solve the problems that the nation was experiencing; the implication is that secessionists (and, perhaps, people living in the North who didn’t support the war) just didn’t comprehend the government’s purpose."〔Rebecca Onion "(Love Your Government, Or Else: A Civil War-Era Infographic With a Mission )." on ''slate.com/blogs/the vault'' 2014/10/30.〕 The Diagram was published in two editions: * The "Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union" of 1861, and * The "Diagram of the Federal Government, Or the Great Republic of the United States of America" from 1864. The map was lithographed by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., a manufacturer of American Civil War lithography portraits and other documents, such as diplomas and maps. Later in the 1860s Mendal Shafer moved to the city of New York, where he once more came into prominence for receiving a patent for the invention of "improvements in binders for papers and the like, which allow the whole or parts of the contents to be removed or exchanged" on the 4th May, 1867,〔Great Britain. Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft (1868). ''(Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents Granted: Being the Abridgements of Provisional and Complete Specifications for the Year's 1867-1868 )'' p. 313.〕〔(The London Gazette, May 13th 1870 ).〕 and a patent for a washing machine in 1868.〔United States. Patent Office (1869) ''Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents.'' p. 234〕 The map was published in 1862 by J.T. Pompilly, a life insurance agents,〔''The Insurance Times.'' Vol. 2. (1869), p. 296〕 in Cincinnati. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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