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Laing's Planetarium
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Laing's Planetarium

Shows the motion of the Earth and Mercury around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth. Date from dealer's information. Terrestrial globe dated to 1891. Title from metal plate affixed to wooden arm. Metal label attached to base shows the months, seasons, and zodiac. Acquisition made possible by Marjorie S. Fisher. Acquisitions control no. 2006-84

Date
1895
Mapmaker / publisher
Laing Planetarium Company; Rand Mcnally And Company
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,817 × 4,438 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Laing's Planetarium" (1895). Laing Planetarium Company; Rand Mcnally And Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laing%27s_Planetarium_LOC_2006458006.jpg

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