Trained as a wood turner and looking-glass maker, Gilman Joslin went to work for pioneering Boston globemaker Josiah Loring in 1837. He took over Loring’s business by 1839, and that year he issued the first globes under his own name, a terrestrial and celestial pair 6″ in diameter. Joslin was eventually succeeded by his son William, and their firm produced globes of various sizes through the end of the 19th century.
