The Globe Vault
A thorough collection of various 19th-20th Century tellurians, planetariums, armillary spheres, & orreries.
1891-1903
Telluric Table Globe by Rand McNally
Rand McNally & Co. telluric globe — a terrestrial globe with additional features incorporated into the stand to demonstrate basic astronomical concepts such as seasonal changes, including the lengths of days and night. The globe has engraved hour circles at the poles, a full metal band constituting a “circle of illumination” and a metal semi-circle band at the equator. It is canted on a simple inclination arm at 23.5 degrees within a central iron round base with pointer that rotates 360 degrees within a green painted round cast iron stand with applied printed paper calendar and zodiac, ending in three curved feet. The globe bears the oval overlabel of Donohue and Henneberry, a Chicago school supply firm, which helps date it to no later than 1903. According to a Rand McNally catalog of the period “[t]his apparatus combines in one device the best form of Globe and simplest and most practical form of Tellurian.” In another sense, it resembles a hand-turned globe clock.
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