{"id":1785421,"date":"2018-04-20T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785421"},"modified":"2018-04-20T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:31:46","slug":"fdrs-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/fdrs-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"FDR’s Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt being presented a globe by the U.S. Army at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this week I told you about President Kennedy’s map of Cuba<\/a>. Now here’s a piece on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s globe<\/a> from the Library of Congress’s map blog.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPresident\u2019s Globe\u201d is big\u2014really big and important. Weighing in at a whopping 750 pounds and sized at an impressive 50 inches in diameter, the globe was specially designed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt for use during World War II. The massive representation of the earth helped the president gauge distances over water to allocate personnel and material in support of the war effort against the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. This feat of cartographic history was given as a Christmas present to the president in 1942, and he placed the globe directly behind his office chair, often referring to it during his workday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lots of interesting detail in this piece.\u00a0Three globes were made, under the direction of Arthur Robinson<\/a>\u00a0(yes, that<\/em> Robinson<\/a>)\u00a0who during the Second World War directed the map division of the OSS: the other two went to Winston Churchill and General George C. Marshall. Roosevelt’s globe is now at his presidential library<\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I told you about President Kennedy’s map of Cuba. Now here’s a piece on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s globe from the Library of Congress’s map blog. The \u201cPresident\u2019s Globe\u201d is big\u2014really big… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1193,372,1192,26,500],"class_list":["post-1785421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-history","tag-1940s","tag-big-maps","tag-fdr","tag-globes","tag-world-war-ii","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806723,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/the-fitz-globe\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785421,"position":0},"title":"The Fitz Globe","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 April 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Last month on the Library of Congress\u2019s map blog, Worlds Revealed, Julie Stoner shared the story of an educational globe with a unique mount invented by author and teacher Ellen Eliza Fitz. \u201cWhile working as a governess, Fitz imagined a new globe mounting technique, as seen in the globe above,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fitz Globe (Library of Congress)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fitz-globe-218x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1186,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-boston-globe-on-mapmonstermonday\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785421,"position":1},"title":"The Boston Globe on #MapMonsterMonday","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"#MapMonsterMonday makes the\u00a0Boston Globe, in a piece looking at how the Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center curates their weekly posts of map monsters on Twitter and Instagram. 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