Description
Globes of the moon were popular in the United States during the 1960s Moon landings. Luther Replogle, the son of a Pennsylvania Dutch family of German immigrants, began producing globes in his Chicago apartment during the 1920s. As a school supply salesman for Weber Costello, Replogle had taken a special interest in globes and wanted to market them to a wide public audience. For his first globes, Replogle used gores from English manufacturers, and after a decade of business, Replogle Globes had become an established and prolific manufacturer of school globes. In the 1950s Replogle produced some unusual globes such as Surprise Globe and Wonder World. The popularity of lunar globes during the Moon landings suggests that space exploration appealed to the public’s imagination.

From display label:

This globe shows the landing sites of the lunar modules and the names of craters and mountains made famous by man’s televised visit. But it also makes the moon seem Earth-like and familiar; the mountains and craters are painted in relief like on terrestrial globes, and the ‘seas’ are coloured blue. (Scale: 1 inch =360 miles)

14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014