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Townsend's Patent folding globe - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Summary
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.
Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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Date
1870
Source
Boston Public Library
Copyright info
Public Domain
