Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Murdock, David C.
notes: label: Description
content: This terrestrial globe consists of a solid wooden sphere atop a simple brass base with 3 cabriole legs. The curious brass structure mounted on the globe has not been identified. The cartouche in the north Pacific reads: “MADE / BY / D.C. MURDOCK / WEST BOYLSTON / MASS.”
label: Description
content: There are very few geographical names or boundaries on this globe. But “Oasis at Taudeny” is shown in West Africa, as is the “Great Desert.” Australia (a name adopted by the United Kingdom in 1824) is here labeled “NEW HOLLAND.”
label: Description
content: David C. Murdock (1805-1880) made inexpensive school apparatus from the 1830s until his small factory was destroyed by fire in 1868.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 116-117.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, West Boylston
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Brookline
topic: label: Subject
content: Geography
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Globes
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0922.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0922.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0922
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 6 in; 29.845 cm x 15.875 cm x 15.24 cm