{"id":9,"date":"2005-10-18T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2005\/10\/18\/resources_for_d\/"},"modified":"2005-10-18T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T18:39:44","slug":"resources_for_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2005\/10\/18\/resources_for_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for dating globes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lodestar.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/helpbooksajsvg_aj_ash_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisoldglobe.com\/images\/helpbooksajsvg_aj_ash_01.png\" title=\"Helpbooksajsvg_aj_ash_01\" alt=\"Helpbooksajsvg_aj_ash_01\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right\" \/><\/a>Whenever you look at a globe, you always face the immediate problem of not being able to <em>simply<\/em> determine the age of the globe.&nbsp; For whatever reason, globe manufacturers usually do not put dates on their globes.&nbsp; Very occasionally, you might find one with a date near the legend or manufacturer logo, but it is a rarity.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Instead, one usually must resort to the game of &quot;<em>find the country name\/border change that most accurately estimates the date<\/em>&quot;.&nbsp; For instance, if the globe shows the &quot;Soviet Union&quot;, it&#8217;s at least earlier than 1991.&nbsp; If it shows &quot;Rhodesia&quot; instead of &quot;Zimbabwe&quot; it is from before 1980.&nbsp; If it shows &quot;French West Africa&quot; occupying a significant part of the African continent, it was made before 1960.&nbsp; If Israel isn&#8217;t there, it&#8217;s pre-1948.&nbsp; You get the idea.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually rather fun.&nbsp; I personally usually start off looking for the USSR or a divided Germany and then typically start looking at Africa or southeast Asia as those areas have experienced the greatest change in recent decades.&nbsp; Some great resources to help in dating globes are available from:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.20thcenturyglobes.com\/dating.htm\">20thcenturyglobes.com: Dating Globes<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/omniterrum.com\/show_dating.php\">Omniterrum:&nbsp; Dating Globes<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.replogleglobes.com\/howOldIsYourGlobe.php\">Replogle: How Old is Your Globe?<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgefcram.com\/commercial\/office_old.html\">George F. Cram Company: How Old is My Map or Globe?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latter two are obviously particularly useful if you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.replogleglobes.com\/\">Replogle <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgefcram.com\/\">Cram <\/a>globe.&nbsp; By the way, the first site I mentioned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20thcenturyglobes.com\/\">20thcenturyglobes.com<\/a> is a great general resource for people looking to learn more about US globes from the early to mid-20th century.&nbsp; The site maintainer, Carolyn Burrell, has done a great job collecting information from that era.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you look at a globe, you always face the immediate problem of not being able to simply determine the age of the globe.&nbsp; For whatever reason, globe manufacturers usually do not put dates on their globes.&nbsp; Very occasionally, you might find one with a date near the legend or manufacturer logo, but it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}