Wilson 9-Inch Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1819
name: label: maker
content: Wilson, James
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription in the Pacific reads “THE / AMERICAN NINE INCH / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, / EXHIBITING / with the greatest possible Accuracy / POSITIONS of THE PRINCIPAL / PLACES OF THE EARTH / with New Discoveries & Political Alterations / down to the present / PERIOD; / 1819. / BY J. WILSON & Co. / Albany.” This globe shows no political boundaries within the United States, but does identify Maine and Florida. Longitude is shown from London and from Washington.
label: Description
content: The globe has a four-leg mahogany stand, a wooden horizon circle, and a brass meridian.
label: Description
content: James Wilson (1763-1855) was America’s first commercial globe maker. He was self-taught in geography and the techniques of engraving, but his globes were accurate, beautiful, and a commercial success. Wilson made his first globes in Vermont around 1810. Working with his sons he established an “artificial globe manufactory” in Albany in 1818.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 135-137.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
label: associated place
content: United States: Vermont, Perkinsville
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: PH.328410
label: accession number
content: 272473
label: catalog number
content: 328410
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23 cm; 9 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 5/8 in x 12 in; 34.6075 cm x 30.48 cm