1.
Women Shaping the World:
Women Globe Makers
Judith Tyner
NACIS
October 2016

2.
The Literature
Stephenson, E.L. (1921) Terrestrial and Celestial Globes: Their
History and Construction
Yong, Ena (1968) Catalog of Early Globes
Lister, Ramond (1965, 1979) Maps and Globes
Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt, (1993) Globes of the
Western World.
Sumira, Silvia (2014) Globes: 400 Years of Exploration,
Navigation and Power.
Warner, Deborah Jean (1987) “The Geography of Heaven and
Earth” Rittenhouse

3.
Globe Use through History
Scientific Instrument
Educational Tool
Symbol of Power and Wealth
Toy

4.
Women’s Roles in
Globemaking
Publishers
Pedagogues and Inventors
Students
Production

5.
Publishers
Wives, Widows and Daughters

6.
Senex Globe
Mary Senex took over her
husband’s firm on his death in
1840 and ran it until 1855.
David Rumsey Website

7.
Please to send me … “a pair of Mrs. Senex’s improv’d
Globes, recommended in the Transactions of the Royal
Society, (or Neal’s improv’d Globes, if thought better than
Senex’s) the best and largest that may be had for (not
exceeding) Eight Guineas.” Benjamin Franklin, June 20,
1752
“The …Globes also came out well; but we think Mrs.
Senex has impos’d on us in the Price of the Globes, there
being 2 pair in this Town of the same Size and the same
Prints, both bought at the same Shop, for 6 Guineas the
pair. Please to speak to her about it.” Benjamin Franklin,
Nov. 16, 1752
From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan:

8.
Cushee Globe
Elizabeth Cushee inherited her
husband’s business in 1732

9.
Edith Putnam Parker, 1939

10.
Pedagogues and
Inventors

11.
Textbook on Globes
David Rumsey Website

12.
Astronomy Textbook
Courtesy Westtown School

13.
Elizabeth Oram,
Globe Patent, 1831
“ As this instrument is the invention of a lady, we will, of
course allow her to tell her story in her own way, without
any animadiversions of ours, which might mar the
narrative, or involve us in inextricable difficulties.”

14.
Ellen Eliza Fitz,
1875 Patent

15.
Fitz Globe

16.
Miss Cowley
Dissected Paper
Globe, 1785

17.
Mrs. Johnstone’s
dissected paper
globe, 1812
Image, the Whipple Museum

18.
Marie Tharp Globe

19.
Students
Samuel Gummere, Astronomy, 1822 , Courtesy Westtown School

20.
Student Globe
Elizabeth Mount 1822
Yale Library

21.
Schoolgirl Map
Caroline Chester, Litchfield
Academy, 1822
Schoolgirl maps were quite
professional in appearance

22.
Silk globe,
Inked names, graticule and outlines in silk
thread
Rachel Cope globe, 1816,
courtesy the Leslie Family
Celestial Globe,
courtesy Chester County Historical Society

23.
“A” for Graticule
“F” for Geography

24.
Production
“It is obvious…that few of the ‘makers’ to whom we attribute globes
actually worked with their hands. They were, for the most part,
coordinators of teams which included geographers and/or
astronomers who supplied the information, cartographers who drew
maps on the separate gores, engravers, printers, people who made
the globe balls, women with nimble fingers who pasted the gores
onto the balls, people who colored the maps, inventors who
devised the stands, and metalworkers and woodworkers who made
them.” (Warner, 1987, p. 20)

25.
Globe makers ca. 1940s

26.
Women at Rand McNally

27.
Bellerby Globes

28.
Thank You
Judith.Tyner@csulb.edu