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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Globe question
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:55 -0400
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the "furniture" is American, not the intellectual and design content of the
globes themselves
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Re: [MapHist] Globe question
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Please respond to Discussion group for map history
Globes with British labels and American overlabels are often considered
American because (a) the stands are constructed in American taste and with
materials, such as cast iron, more commonly used for furniture in the
United States, (b) when American overlabels obscure the labels of English
manufacturers such as Johnston and Bacon, evidence of the English origin of
the printed maps, know as gores, is hidden and (c) the gores for such
globes were shipped unmounted to the United States, where companies such as
Andrews, Nystrom, Weber Costello and Nystrom mounted the gores on cardboard
and plaster spheres.
Best wishes,
Jaron Davis
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Subject: [MapHist] Globe question
Perhaps a good question for maphist as well as Maps-L
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Subject: [Fwd: Globe question]
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:44:09 -0500
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This appeared on the archives list. With the author's permission, I'm
forwarding it here, confident that someone here will know the answer. I'll
compile any answers and forward to the author.
Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
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Recently I heard or read (maybe dreamt?) an odd thing about
globes....that even if a globe had been made in Europe, but a US globe
maker or seller label was affixed over the European globe maker name,
that the globe would be considered American..... All that seems at odds
with archival principles. Perhaps a globe expert can enlighten me here.
It could have been a very realistic dream....I am an "Antiques Roadshow"
fan, but I don't recall where this globe label thing originated. If the
above is true, why?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Sharon Lee Butcher, MLS, MSO
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
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Arnold AFB, TN 37389-3212
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