Globe (7131)

Terrestrial globe of paper, supported by two brass pins mounted on an encircling flat, brass frame, 9/16" wide, marked in degrees of latitude from equator to North Pole, every ten degrees numbered, every degree marked. The globe is printed on faded paper in various colors of red, green, blue, yellow, to denote countries. Many rivers, cities, bodies of water, and routes of famous voyages are shown in black. The bottom of the brass frame is supported in a slot of a small wood pedestal through which is attached a brass screw. This is attached to the wood stand in the midde of turned maple cross stretchers doweled in four turned maple liegs, which are doweled into the horizontal flat wood frame encircling the globe. On this horizontal wood frame is printed on glued paper the names of the zodiac, months, and degrees.

Provenance Narrative
Donor states that globe belonged to her grandfather Francis McKee.

Place Made
United States MASSACHUSETTS Boston

Signatures/Marks
Lorun's Terrestrial Globe containing all the Late Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the tracks of the most celebrated circumnavigators. Compiled from the new English Globe with additions and improvements by Anian[?] Smith. Revised by Hoswell Park 1816. Manufactured by Gilman Joslin, Boston.