13.25-Inch Slate Globe
English or Continental: c. 1940s
Globe covered with slating material on Bakelite stand
18 inches high, 8.25 inch diameter base
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13.25-Inch Slate Globe
Art Deco Style Stand
Art Deco Style Stand
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A slate globe with red latitude and longitude lines on a stand in the Art Deco taste, the sphere covered as issued with black slating material. The globe is canted on an angle on an aluminum inclination arm and mounted on a molded circular Bakelite stand.
Globes coated with slating material were produced from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century as educational aids for the study of geography. Students practiced drawing maps in chalk on the surface; in this example they were guided by lines of latitude and longitude.
Reference:
Dahl, Edward H. and Gauvin, Jean-François. Sphaerae Mundi: Early Globes at the Stewart Museum. Canada: Septentrion, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.