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1845-1870
GUSN-6529
"A Movable Planisphere/The Starry Heavens," with a stationary map of the heavens set with a movable dial indicating the constellations visible during any particular month of the year from each hemisphere.
board games (game sets)
cardboard
paper (fiber product)
astronomy
geography
Unidentified Paper
Cardboard
Geography
Astronomy
GAME, BOARD
Marked ""Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851 (?) by Henry Whitall in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pensylvania (sic), /Adapted to the Buttet's Geography of the Heavens and Sold by Mason Brothers, 108 --- St. New York.""
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
Philadelphia, PA, USA
15.375 x 15.375 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1322
Pennsylvania (United States)
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