Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Weber Costello Company
label: maker
content: W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
notes: label: Description
content: Globe with white stars on a dark blue background, and constellation figures faintly outlined in gold. A label in the southern hemisphere reads: “CELESTIAL / GLOBE / Manufactured by / Weber Costello Co. / Chicago Heights, Ill.” There is a three-footed metal base, wooden horizon circle, metal meridian circle, and metal yoke.
label: Description
content: C. F. Weber & Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews & Co. in 1896. The firm became Weber Costello Frick Co. in 1902 and Weber Costello in 1909. The firm boasted in 1922: “The manufacture of globes requires skilled, experienced workmen, and the most accurate machinery. We have for this work the largest and best appointed establishment in the world. We have had forty-one years’ experience in globe manufacture. There are no globes made anywhere, by anyone, that equal our product.” The firm went to say that their globe maps were “made by the greatest map makers in the world, G. W. Bacon & Co., London, England, and W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburg, Scotland.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Weber Costello, <i>Globes, Hyloplate Blackboards, Erasers—Wall Maps</i> (Chicago Heights, 1922).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago Heights
label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Rock Island
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Augustana College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0196.02
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0196.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: celestial globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 45.7 cm; 18 in