Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1872
name: label: maker
content: Schedler, Joseph
label: maker
content: Weissenborn, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche in the South Pacific reads “J. SCHEDLER’S / TERRESTRIAL / GLOBE / 6 inches diameter / Patented November 24 1868 / Prize Medal Paris Expos / E. STEIGER N.Y. / 1872.” The western border reads “Entered according to Act of Congress / in the Year 1869 by Jos. Schedler in the.” The eastern border reads “Clerks Office of the District Court/ of the Southern District of New York.” The explanations below the cartouche refer to steamship routes and telegraph lines.
label: Description
content: While earlier globes tended to be printed in black on white and then colored by hand, Schedler’s were printed in color, probably by lithography. In this example, the boundaries and texts are black, the land masses are yellow and red, and the water is blue (largely faded to dark yellow). Broken black lines indicate lines of regular steam communication around the world, both from Europe and to Europe. There are also lines indicating the Atlantic telegraph cables of 1865 and 1866, as well as the French cable of 1869. The globe sits on a decorative cast-iron pedestal, with metal horizon circle and metal meridian circle.
label: Description
content: Joseph Schedler (1813-1887) was a German immigrant who worked in New York and New Jersey, publishing books and globes. His globes won medals at several local and international exhibitions and were used in the public schools of several American cities.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Weissenborn, “Improvement in the Construction of School Globes,” U.S. Patent 84,398 (Nov. 24, 1868).
label: Description
content: Jos. Schedler, <i>Schedler’s Illustrated Manual for the Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes</i> (New York and Jersey City: H. Schedler, 1889).
label: Description
content: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 125-127.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Hastings-on-Hudson
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: 1987.0287.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0287.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0287
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 33.655 cm x 20.955 cm