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[Caption on card] "NA-5568 A large, transparent globe showing the earth's land water areas in relief stands in the Pennsylvania Avenue lobby of the National Archives Building. Made by Terr-A-Qua Globes & Maps Co., of Santa Ana, Calif., the globe was contributed to NARS by Dr. Talbert Abrams in honor of Capt. & Mrs. Finn Ronne. The diameter of the globe is 6 1/2 feet. It was presented to NARS October 21, 1969. This picture was made in January 1975. The globe is part of the Center for Polar Archives, which was established in the National Archives in 1967 and which has papers of Capt. Ronne among its holdings."
Still Pictures ID: 64-NA-5568
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3rd April 1933: Women workers attaching strips of map to globes at the Geographia Factory in London. (Photo by Harry Todd)

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Artists standing among models of buildings for General Motors’ Futurama, New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Incorporated records (NYPL Digital records)

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Artists carving model mountains for General Motors’ Futurama, New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Incorporated records (NYPL Digital records)

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Artists painting model buildings for General Motors’ Futurama, New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Incorporated records (NYPL Digital records)

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Japanese model used to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor in September 1941.

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1943 – Photo from a camouflage class at New York University, where men and women make models from aerial photographs and devise a camouflage scheme for a defense…

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1943 – A camouflage class at New York University, where men and women make models from aerial photographs and devise a camouflage scheme for a defense plant. This…

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James Nasmyth, Copernicus’ crater study model in plaster, 1870’s One of 15 assorted photographs of Nasmyth’s crater models illuminated at a low angle illustrating unknown lunar craters and…

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  Lilliputian’s-eye viewer puts you inside tiny model, Popular Science (Aug, 1964) A slender optical tube fitted with 18 miniature lenses provides realistic views inside architects’, landscapers’, town planners’,…