Description
Oceans are green, some geographic are shaded in yellow or green. Isothermal lines are in degrees red (warm) and blue (cold), and ocean current lines are yellow, but none of these are so identified in a key. Mountains are shaded with hatch marks. There is an elongated oval analemma in the Pacific Ocean.The Antarctic coastline is partially mapped reflecting knowledge at the time. In the United States, certain cartographical features date the globe to between 1890 and 1907. Modern-day Oklahoma is divided between Ok’L’Ma, an abbreviation for Oklahoma Territory in the west, and IND TERI, an abbreviation for the Indian Territory in the east. These boundaries reflect the 1890 Oklahoma Organic Act, which created the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory out of a combination of the region’s “unorganized” Indian Territory, Greer County, and the Oklahoma panhandle. In 1907, Oklahoma achieved statehood, and was indicated on globes as such rather than a territory in any part. A second feature helping to date the globe is the division of the Dakotas, named Nth. Dakota and Sth. Dakota, in accordance with their admission as the 39th and 40th states in November 1889.
This globe is by Charles Holbrook, the last in a line of globe makers of the renowned Holbrook family started in the 1832 by Josiah Holbrook in Massachusetts. In 1888, Charles Holbrook advertised his business as “Three Generations and Sixty years in the Cause of Education.” In a chronology from Charles Holbrook’s Teacher’s Manual for Lunar Tellurian dated 1888 he states that Dwight Holbrook took over the family business in 1840 located in Berea Ohio, and that Dwight later relocated to Connecticut. He further stated that he purchased the business in 1877.
O.D. Case & Company was a publishing firm, bindery and school desk manufacturer in Hartford, Connecticut, during the second half of the 19th century. The company was founded by Orlando Dwight Case (1826-1903). Born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, Case moved to Hartford in 1849 and founded O.D. Case & Co. in 1851, which he operated for 52 years until he died of a heart attack in his office in 1903. An engraving in the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society, Fall of the City Bindery of O.D. Case & Co., Hartford, Ct. (1866) shows the collapse of the back wall of the company’s five-story building at 49 Trumbull Street. They clearly recovered from this disaster and eventually moved to Asylum Street. In addition to publishing books, O.D. Case produced maps and atlases from at least 1857 to 1881. These included Case’s Bible Atlas, which provided maps related to the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament designed for Sunday School teachers and their students. During this period they are know to have collaborated in their map and atlas publication with the firms of S. Augustus Mitchell, A.H. Andrews and W. & A.K. Johnston respectively. O.D. Case also published advanced textbooks for use in college classrooms and reference books such as American Commercial Law.
Cartouche: CHAS. W. HOLBROOK’S/ EIGHT INCH/ GLOBE.
Condition: Globe generally very good with the usual expected light scattered surface wear to varnish, discolorations, fading, toning, small cracks and abrasions, all now professionally restored. Stand very good, with the usual light wear oxidation to metal.
References:
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. p. 175.
“Fall of the City Bindery of O.D. Case and Company.” Connecticut History Illustrated.http://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/object/40002%3A10998 (7 March 2016).
“Holbrook’s School Globes.” O.D. Case & Company, 302 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn. Broadside in George Glazer Collection
“O.D. Case.” Connecticut Historical Society Museum & Library.http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/view/people/asitem/C/59?t:state:flow=a1b82e3f-52a8-46f7-8c19-ad1816efedea (7 March 2016).
“Search results for O.D. Case & Co. maps.” Worldcat.org. http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=O.D.+Case+%26+Co.#x0%253Amap-format (7 March 2016).
Seeger and Guernsey’s Cyclopaedia of the Manufactures and Products of the United States. New York: United States Industrial Publishing Company, 1899. p. 148. Online at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=u0FgyWc_xcAC&pg=PA148 (7 March 2016).
Sumira, Sylvia. Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. p. 31.
Tumblin, J.C. “Fountain Citians Who Made a Difference: The Holbrooks.” Fountain City News. http://www.fountaincitytnhistory.info/people22-theholbrooks.htm (27 February 2018).
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, Vol. 2, No. 3. 1987. pp. 94-98 (all Holbrook manufacturers).
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968.