Terrestrial Globe, Illuminated, United States by Globe By Rand Mcnally

The whole world, at standing height, on four very confident legs.

This illuminated terrestrial globe comes from Chicago, Illinois, and dates to the mid 20th century, with the globe by Rand McNally and the design by Edward Wormley. It is a glass globe with paper gores on a wood and brass base. Globes this size belonged in libraries, offices and living rooms, as reference, as teaching tool and as proof that someone in the house read the papers. A brass meridian arcs over blue oceans, and a wide black ring circles the equator. Thirty-three inches high and twenty-one across.

Some of the borders have moved since. The legs have not.