Celestial Globe
Celestial Globe
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- Description
- Globe with white stars on a dark blue background, and constellation figures faintly outlined in gold. A label in the southern hemisphere reads: “CELESTIAL / GLOBE / Manufactured by / Weber Costello Co. / Chicago Heights, Ill.” There is a three-footed metal base, a wooden horizon circle, a metal meridian circle, and a metal yoke.
- C. F. Weber & Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews & Co. in 1896. The firm became Weber Costello Frick Co. in 1902 and Weber Costello in 1909. The firm boasted in 1922: “The manufacture of globes requires skilled, experienced workmen, and the most accurate machinery. We have for this work the largest and best appointed establishment in the world. We have had forty-one years’ experience in globe manufacture. There are no globes made anywhere, by anyone, that equal our product.” The firm went to say that their globe maps were “made by the greatest map makers in the world, G. W. Bacon & Co., London, England, and W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburg, Scotland.”
- Ref: Weber Costello, Globes, Hyloplate Blackboards, Erasers—Wall Maps (Chicago Heights, 1922).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- celestial globe
- date made
- 20th century
- maker
- Weber Costello Company
- W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago Heights
- associated place
- United States: Illinois, Rock Island
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- iron (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 45.7 cm; 18 in
- ID Number
- 1987.0196.02
- catalog number
- 1987.0196.02
- accession number
- 1987.0196
- Credit Line
- Augustana College
- subject
- Astronomy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Globes
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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