Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Joslin, Gilman
label: maker
content: Annin, William B.
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche reads: “JOSLIN’S / Ten-Inch / CELESTIAL GLOBE / CONTAINING / all the Stars to the fifth Magnitude, inclusive. / From the Maps of the Stars, Published by the Society / for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. / Drawn and Engraved by W. B. Annin / BOSTON -- GILMAN JOSLIN.”
label: Description
content: This globe is supported on Joslin’s “full wood stand” with four short wooden legs, a wooden horizon circle and a brass meridian.
label: Description
content: Gilman Joslin (1804-about 1886) worked for Josiah Loring in Boston before issuing a globe under his own name in 1839. At mid-century, Joslin’s manufactory employed three men and two women, and boasted a 3-horsepower steam engine. The women probably pasted the paper gores onto the globe balls.
label: Description
content: William B. Annin, the artist who drew and engraved for this celestial globe, also worked for Loring.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gilman Joslin & Son, <i>Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes</i> (Boston, 1885), p. 41.
label: Description
content: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 100-103.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Sheffield
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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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.330000
label: accession number
content: 285855
label: catalog number
content: 330000
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: 10 in; 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 5/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 37.1475 cm x 31.75 cm