Description
The Story of the Globe by Mercedes Guyette was the instruction booklet that accompanied each globe of the Earth (terrestrial globe) sold by Replogle Globes. The narrative begins by stating that: ‘You [the reader] now have a Globe, a miniature model of the Earth itself’. The story continues to place the owner of the globe within a much longer tradition of globe making, use and ownership. It provides a brief history of globes and globe-making. The globe-making section of the booklet ends with a discussion on James Wilson, a Vermont farmer who, according to Guyette, was America’s first globe-maker. Also included in the booklet are instructions on how to make measurements using the globe, and a general discussion on the movements of the Earth in relation to the Sun and Moon. At the end of the booklet, there are a series of Globe Games that helped young geographers apply their newly acquired knowledge of the Earth. The copyright of this guide is dated 1954. Replogle Globes was founded in the 1930s by Luther Replogle, a school supply salesman who believed that there was a wider market for globes than in school classrooms. 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. The company continues to produce a variety of globes to this day.

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