Rand, McNally & Co.’s/ NEW/ Six Inch Terrestrial/ GLOBE.
Six-inch diameter; 11 ½ inches high, Hand-colored, terrestrial globe surmounted by a conical final and canted on simple iron rod inclination arm, raised on turned hardwood stand with central baluster standard and dish base. Generally good with the usual expected light toning, wear, soiling. Few small abraded areas professionally restored. In the last decades of the 19th Century, the production of terrestrial globes proliferated in Chicago. A.H. Andrews & Co began globe production as early as the 1860s, followed by Rand McNally and Company, which became a preeminent publisher of maps and atlases in Chicago beginning 1856, and then ventured into globe making, producing its first globe in 1887. It continues in business today. As noted by scholar and librarian Cynthia H. Peters, the company "has become synonymous with mapmaking in American life," and "[t]heir success highlights the movement of the American map publishing industry's center of gravity from the East to the Midwest." St. Petersburg is shown, indicating a date before 1914.
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