Gilman Joslin
12-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Boston: c. 1890s
Turned ebonized wooden stand
21.5 inches high; 11.5 inch diameter base
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12-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Gilman Joslin, Boston: c. 1890s
Gilman Joslin, Boston: c. 1890s
The terrestrial globe is mounted within a calibrated brass half meridian, raised on a turned ebonized wooden stand with central baluster standard and dish base. North and South Dakota are shown as separate states. Oklahoma is shown as Indian Territory with names of various tribes; the western extension of Oklahoma is shaded pink, the remainder is shaded blue. Geographical entities are shaded brightly in pink, green, blue, yellow, with some thin red and thicker green outlining. Waters and some geographical entities are a cream color. There are also a figure-eight analemma and printed polar hour circles.
Gilman Joslin was a prolific 19th century maker of globes. Read more about the firm in our Guide to Globe Makers.
Circular Cartouche: Joslin’s/ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE/ containing all/ THE LATE 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/
Condition: Generally very good overall, the original colors bright, the surface overall glossy, with the usual light toning. Some minor scattered stains, scuffs, abrasions, dings, hairline cracks, all professionally restored.
References:
Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt. Globes from the Western World. Zwemmer, London: 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. Boston, Massachusetts: Gilman Joslin & Son, [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. 100-03.
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968, pp. 37-38.