Terrestrial Illuminated Globe, United States by By Rand Mcnally

The world as it stood in 1961, lit from the inside.

This terrestrial illuminated globe was made in Chicago, Illinois, United States, dated 1961, by Rand McNally, with a design by Edward Wormley. Lit globes like this one served libraries, offices and living rooms in the postwar years, when a map of the world doubled as an education and as furniture. Pale land sits on a blue-green sea, held in a graduated brass meridian ring. A broad wooden ring cradles the sphere at its equator, and splayed, tapering legs meet in a crossed stretcher below. Thirty-two inches high and 21 in diameter.

Several of these borders did not stay put.