The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. Wyld's Globe was built in 1851 at the time of the Great Exhibition by James Wyld, a distinguished geographer and MP. Housed inside a purpose-built building was a hollow globe 60 feet in diameter with staircases and platforms from which people could view a representation, to scale, of the Earth's surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. Wyld's Globe was built in 1851 at the time of the Great Exhibition by James Wyld, a distinguished geographer and MP. Housed inside a purpose-built building was a hollow globe 60 feet in diameter with staircases and platforms from which people could view a representation, to scale, of the Earth's surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son
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Heritage Images / Contributor
Editorial #:
464490309
Collection:
Hulton Archive
Date created:
01 January, 1855
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Hulton Archive
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220007146
Object name:
2495353
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