Townsend's Patent folding globe

Title:: Townsend's Patent folding globe
Title (alt.):: Patent folding globe
Folding globe
Description:: Back to School: Small, portable globes were intended for educational purposes, and were used by students in classrooms and in the home. Dennis Townsend, a Vermont schoolteacher, produced this collapsible, portable, and inexpensive globe for students as an alternative to the large, more expensive globes available mainly in schools and libraries.
Creator:: Townsend, Dennis, 1817-1874
Name on Item:: patented by Dennis Townsend, Feb. 16, 1869.
Date:: 1870
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Objects/Artifacts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:: Globes
Extent:: 1 globe : hand col., paper ; 16 cm. in diam., folded to 24 cm. in diam., in cover 31 x 26 cm.
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:: Boston ; Felchville, Vt : George M. Smith & Co. ; D. Townsend
Scale:: Scale [ca. 1:85,000,000]
Language:: English
Notes:: Relief shown by hachures.
Cover title.
Six inch globe.
Issued with a loop for hanging.
Notes (exhibitions):: Exhibited: "Back to School: Geography in the Classroom" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2014-2015.
Identifier:: 06_01_006357
Call #:: G3170 1869 .T69
Barcode:: 39999059024974