Iron Terrestrial Globe, United States by Weber Costello Co.

The world as of 1914, shortly before it changed.

This terrestrial globe was made by Weber Costello Co. in Chicago, Illinois, and is dated 1914. It is a plaster globe with paper gores, the tapered printed strips that wrap a sphere, on an iron base. Desktop globes like this taught geography in classrooms, offices and libraries when a map was still the surest way to see the world. Africa and Europe face forward in faded amber and green. A curved arm rises from a tripod with paw feet. It stands 14.5 inches high and measures eight in diameter.

Several borders have since been revised.