Gilman Joslin/Josiah Loring
Ten-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Boston: c. 1880s
17 inches high, 9 inches diameter base
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Gilman Joslin Table Globe
Ebonized Stand, 19th Century
Ebonized Stand, 19th Century
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The terrestrial globe with printed hour calotte at North Pole, and having a brass calibrated half meridian, raised on a turned wooden ebonized stand with central baluster standard and dish base.
The oceans are cream colored and geographical features are outlined in green with some green shading. North Dakota and South Dakota are divided. Physical geography relating to temperate zones indicated by lines showing Northern and Southern "Limit of Wood," "Limit of Grain," "Limit of the Vine," and "Limit of Bananas."
For information on Gilman Joslin and Josiah Loring, see our Guide to Globe Makers.
Trapezoidal Cartouche: JOSLIN'S/ TEN INCH/ TERRESTRIAL/ GLOBE./ Manufactured by/ GILMAN JOSLIN, BOSTON
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.