18-Inch Art Nouveau Floor Globe
Sears Roebuck & Company: c. 1907-14
45 inches high
24.5 inches diameter
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18-Inch Art Nouveau Floor Globe
Sears Roebuck, c. 1907-14
Sears Roebuck, c. 1907-14
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The 18-inch terrestrial globe with metal hour discs at North Pole, in full graduated metal meridian, the horizon with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, raised on an tripod cast iron stand in the Art Nouveau taste, with zebra-pattern copper flash finish, the three shaped tubular legs joined by a tri-form medial stretcher.
The globe made of two sets of twelve gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees in both directions, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, showing Mean Isothermal Lines for January and July, the oceans with an analemma, submarine and wireless telegraph cables indicated, ocean currents shown by white curvy lines but not indicated in table. The oceans blue, continents finely detailed, with geographic entities colored in shades of yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green.
Oklahoma is shown in its entirely dating the globe after 1907. St. Petersburg is shown dating the globe before 1914. A similar tubular stand is shown on a Rand McNally globe in An Educational Catalogue -- Maps and Globes, issued by Rand McNally on the occasion of the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Worlds Fair. Nonetheless this globe appears to have been made by W. & A.K. Johnston of London and Edinburgh for export to the United States, based on similar characteristics to labeled Johnston globes.
For more information on the Chicago globe makers and W & A.K. Johnston, see our Guide to Globe Makers.
Circular Cartouche Overlabel: SEARS ROEBUCK & CO./ SCHOOL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT/ EVERYTHING/ FOR THE SCHOOL/ SATISFACTION/ GUARANTEED
Legend Below Cartouche: Submarine Telegraph Cables thus [hatched line] Black/ Mean Isothermal lines for January [blue line] Blue/ Mean Isothermal lines for June [thin red line] Red/ INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE [thick red line]/ Wireless Telegraph/