Townsend's Patent folding globe
Item Information
- Title:
- Townsend's Patent folding globe
- Title (alt.) :
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Patent folding globe
Folding globe
- Description:
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Back to School: Small, portable globes were intended for educational purposes, and were used by students in classrooms and in the home. Dennis Townsend, a Vermont schoolteacher, produced this collapsible, portable, and inexpensive globe for students as an alternative to the large, more expensive globes available mainly in schools and libraries.
- Creator:
- Townsend, Dennis, 1817-1874
- Creator:
- George M. Smith & Co
- Name on Item:
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patented by Dennis Townsend, Feb. 16, 1869.
- Date:
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1870
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
Objects/Artifacts
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Globes
- Extent:
- 1 globe : hand col., paper ; 16 cm. in diam., folded to 24 cm. in diam., in cover 31 x 26 cm.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6t053q90k
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Boston||Felchville, Vt :
George M. Smith & Co.||D. Townsend
- Notes:
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Relief shown by hachures.
Cover title.
Six inch globe.
Issued with a loop for hanging.
Exhibited: "Back to School: Geography in the Classroom" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2014-2015.
- Scale:
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Scale [ca. 1:85,000,000]
- Language:
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English
- Identifier:
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06_01_006357
- Call #:
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G3170 1869 .T69
- Barcode:
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39999059024974