Terrestrial Globe, United States

Little globe with North America front and center, held by a golden degree arc.

This lithograph tin terrestrial globe is from the United States, and is dated 1926. Mapmaking in the 1920s still showed many empires and colonies, and a printed globe of that decade gives a record of how the world was then drawn. Here, a small globe in slate blue and tan showing the Americas, tilted within a curved band marked with degree numbers. It rests on a slim stem and a flat round foot in sandy yellow. The printing has softened with age. It is 9 inches high and 7 in diameter.

Knows its latitudes and keeps them to itself.