8-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe on Cast Iron Tripod Stand
John Wanamaker: New York, Philadelphia (seller)
British for the American market: c. 1930s
13 inches high
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8-Inch Terrestrial Globe
British for the American Market: c. 1930s
British for the American Market: c. 1930s
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An attractive globe sold by the John Wanamaker department store for home or school use. The terrestrial globe surmounted by final and hour circle, canted at an angle on axis arm, raised on a cast-iron stand in the Art Nouveau taste, with foliate central standard, the foliate and scrolled round base with four openings, on scroll feet. Geographical entities shown in various colors. Oceans appear light green. Leningrad shown. Globe gores likely supplied by W. & A.K. Johnston.
Printed Circular Overlabel: 8 INCH [printed above cartouche]/ TERRESTRIAL/ GLOBE/ JOHN WANAMAKER/ New York/ Philadelphia.
Table printed below globe:
Railways
Cables
International Date Line
The value of a degree of Longitude/ for each 10th degree of Latitude is/ stated in Geographical miles at/ the 30th Meridian
PRINTED IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND/ Copyright