Terrestrial Globe
Joslin's
Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, ca. 1840
Geography & Map Division
Gift/purchase from Philip Colman, 2002 (119A.2)
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Globes were widely used as educational tools in nineteenth-century
America and were more popular than their current representation
in American museums and libraries would suggest. During the past
decade, the Geography and Map Division has made a concerted effort
to assemble a strong collection of globes produced by American
manufacturers, and now holds the major study collection for globes
produced in the United States. The Division holdings include approximately
400 terrestrial globes, like this example produced by Gilman Joslin
about 1840.
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