George Glazer Gallery - Antique Globes

Star Spangled Globes

Fourth of July, 2001


Click image for full description and enlargement	Q: Maybe some of our viewers have one of these globes in their attic waiting to be discovered? Well perhaps, though those examples are fairly rare. Sometimes 19th Century globes are found in American houses, around from the days when they were used in schoolrooms. Here are two 20th Century globes that are more commonly	Click image for full description and enlargement
encountered. This Hammonds American globe from the 1940s (left) eliminates showing constellations figures; instead the stars are connected by simple straight lines. Here is the big and little dipper in the Northern Sky. This Rand McNally globe, from about the 1960s, has a midnight blue sky, and still shows the constellation figures in full form.

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