Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1890
name: label: maker
content: Nims & Knight
label: maker
content: Merriam & Moore
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche on this globe reads “THE FRANKLIN / TERRESTRIAL / 10 INCHES IN DIAMETER CONTAINING ALL THE / Geographical Divisions / & POLITICAL BOUNDARIES / to the present date / carefully compiled from the best Authorities / NIMS & KNIGHT / TROY, N.Y.”
label: Description
content: The first Franklin terrestrial globe was issued in the mid-1850s by Merriam & Moore, booksellers in Troy, N.Y. That firm and its successors would issue several new editions over the course of the next half century. This example carries the signature of Nims & Knight, as the firm was known from 1886 to 1889, but it shows some geographical information from a year or two later. This includes such states as North and South Dakota (1889), Wyoming and Idaho (1890), and the panhandle (1890) of the “Indian Territor” later known as Oklahoma.
label: Description
content: The globe is mounted on an inclined axis on a simple pillar stand. The circular cast iron base is covered with lithographed tinplate.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 63-64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
label: associated place
content: United States: Maine, Damariscotta
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: 1987.0534.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0534.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0534
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24.8 cm; 9 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 9 in; 46.0375 cm x 22.86 cm