women shaping the world: women and globes
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Women Shaping the World: Women Globe Makers
Judith TynerNACIS
October 2016
The LiteratureStephenson, E.L. (1921) Terrestrial and Celestial Globes: Their History and Construction
Yong, Ena (1968) Catalog of Early Globes
Lister, Ramond (1965, 1979) Maps and Globes
Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt, (1993) Globes of the Western World.
Sumira, Silvia (2014) Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation and Power.
Warner, Deborah Jean (1987) “The Geography of Heaven and Earth” Rittenhouse
Globe Use through History
Scientific InstrumentEducational ToolSymbol of Power and WealthToy
Women’s Roles in Globemaking
PublishersPedagogues and Inventors StudentsProduction
PublishersWives, Widows and Daughters
Senex GlobeMary Senex took over her
husband’s firm on his death in 1840 and ran it until 1855.
David Rumsey Website
Please to send me … “a pair of Mrs. Senex’s improv’d Globes, recommended in the Transactions of the Royal Society, (or Neal’s improv’d Globes, if thought better than Senex’s) the best and largest that may be had for (not exceeding) Eight Guineas.” Benjamin Franklin, June 20, 1752“The …Globes also came out well; but we think Mrs. Senex has impos’d on us in the Price of the Globes, there being 2 pair in this Town of the same Size and the same Prints, both bought at the same Shop, for 6 Guineas the pair. Please to speak to her about it.” Benjamin Franklin, Nov. 16, 1752
From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan:
Cushee GlobeElizabeth Cushee inherited her husband’s business in 1732
Edith Putnam Parker, 1939
Pedagogues and Inventors
Textbook on Globes
David Rumsey Website
Astronomy Textbook
Courtesy Westtown School
Elizabeth Oram,Globe Patent, 1831
“ As this instrument is the invention of a lady, we will, of course allow her to tell her story in her own way, without any animadiversions of ours, which might mar the narrative, or involve us in inextricable difficulties.”
Ellen Eliza Fitz, 1875 Patent
Fitz Globe
Miss Cowley Dissected Paper Globe, 1785
Mrs. Johnstone’s dissected paper globe, 1812
Image, the Whipple Museum
Marie Tharp Globe
Students
Samuel Gummere, Astronomy, 1822 , Courtesy Westtown School
Student GlobeElizabeth Mount 1822
Yale Library
Schoolgirl MapCaroline Chester, Litchfield Academy, 1822Schoolgirl maps were quite professional in appearance
Silk globe, Inked names, graticule and outlines in silk thread
Rachel Cope globe, 1816, courtesy the Leslie Family
Celestial Globe, courtesy Chester County Historical Society
“A” for Graticule“F” for Geography
Production“It is obvious…that few of the ‘makers’ to whom we attribute globes actually worked with their hands. They were, for the
most part, coordinators of teams which included geographers and/or astronomers who supplied the information, cartographers
who drew maps on the separate gores, engravers, printers, people who made the globe balls, women with nimble fingers who pasted the gores onto the balls, people who colored the
maps, inventors who devised the stands, and metalworkers and woodworkers who made them.” (Warner, 1987, p. 20)
Globe makers ca. 1940s
Women at Rand McNally
Bellerby Globes
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