Having a nickel-plated calibrated full meridian, within a circular horizon band with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, supported by three curved iron quadrants, raised on a mahogany tripod base with richly ring-turned circular tapered legs. The Dakotas are shown as one territory. Geographical entities shaded in colors of pink, green, others natural cream colored as are the oceans.

Circular cartouche: Joslin's/ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE/ containing all/ THE LATEST DISCOVERIES/ and/ Geographical Improvements,/ also the Tracks of/ the most celebrated circumnavigators./ Compiled from Smith's New English Globe, with/ additions and improvements by Annin & Smith/ Revised by G.W. Boynton/ Manufactured by Gilman Joslin, Boston/

For more information on Gilman Joslin see our Guide to Globemakers.

References:

Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993.  pp. 126, 140, 176.

How to Use a Globe, Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes/ Joslin’s Hand-book to the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.  Gilman Joslin & Son, Manufacturers and Dealers, 5 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts:  [n.d., but c. 1890], pp. 3-4.

Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, Vol. 2, No. 3. 1987. pp. 100-103.

Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968. pp. 37-38.