A Playskool jigsaw puzzle map of the United States. CBS News Soon, puzzles expanded their reach beyond learning, with puzzles depicting nursery rhymes and fairytale subjects, ships and trains.

Some of the earliest surviving dissected maps, made in London in the 1760s, were sold by London mapmaker John Spilsbury. Spilsbury affixed paper to wooden boards and cut his puzzles into pieces ...

Maps & puzzles 'How the States Got Their Shapes' is like a really cool history ... “The reality is we’re united, ... “States” offers an opportunity for parents and kids to learn together.

The Library of Congress recently digitized a group of these early puzzles. ... the "dissected maps" were handcrafted by cartographers as learning tools. ... "Dissected map of the United States," 1900 ...