Hello! My name is Obe and I'm a 'worldly' kind of artifact - I'm a globe! I was manufactured in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century by the Rand McNally & Co map company. I am made out of wood, plaster, nickel plate and steel. I moved to the Sir Alexander Galt Museum & Archives in 1967 after living at the Westminster School here in Lethbridge. I sure was well used! I taught so many children about the world and the continents and the oceans! I taught so much that my printing is starting to lift from my plaster and I'm all worn at my base. In 2004 my metal ring cracked in three different places! But that's okay - old things like me sometimes just need a little bit of lovin'.