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返回的作品

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Thousand Island Steamboat Company pass, 1896 (1)

Once again I have more good news about pieces that were stolen by our former archivist. We have a received a number of returns in the past few weeks, including some very rare pieces. While this process has not been easy, especially when dealing with people who will not return the items or even respond to our letters, we have dealt with some people who restore your faith in humanity. We have had a few people who returned the items they purchased on eBay, as well as sending us new items as donations to help build up the collection again. To these people we are eternally grateful.

So, again I will share some of the returned pieces. Enjoy!阅读更多

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本月工件 - SS Kaiser Wilhelm II的绘画

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kaiser wilhelm

当月的今天的对象是油漆以轮船为特色的油画Kaiser Wilhelm II在埃及的大金字塔面前。我记得当我第一次遇到它时，我认为这艘船完全从水中出来是一个奇怪的形象，但是当然，这就是寓言绘画的外观。有了我的兴趣，我去查看文件夹，看看这幅画的背景是什么。令我沮丧的是，文件中几乎没有任何信息，尽管左下角底角有明确的签名，但错误的艺术家甚至归因于这幅画。

我是一个好奇的人,自然,所以没有knowing anything about this painting was rather painful. Taking what little I knew about it, which was basically just the artist, I turned to my best friend for answers, Google. I soon found out that the artist, Otto Bollhagen, was a well-known painter in Bremen, Germany. This is where he set up his ‘atelier’, meaning studio. Underneath ‘Atelier Bollhagen’ on the signature is ‘Bremen’. The business Otto started in 1892 continues today under the leadership of a great-grandson.阅读更多

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Donor Celebration

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Norddeutscher Lloyd Line poster

Last week was a whirlwind of activity for us and for several others in the museum as we celebrated the donation of the Herbert Beazley steamship collection by Norma Beazley, who is a wonderful lady. Last year Cindi and I spent two days in Houston packing the collection and then two days driving it back to the museum in a moving truck. It was a long journey, but very worthwhile when we started to see what exactly it was we had brought back (a total of about 22,000 pieces!). We had objects, videos, photographs, postcards, slides, books and a very large number of archival pieces. Archival pieces generally include flat paper pieces such as menus, deck plans, passenger lists, receipts, tickets, baggage tags, etc. Between us and the library staff (as well as a number of awesome interns) it took us about two months to completely inventory the collection.

What is so great about this collection (besides how massive it is) is how many wonderful things have now come to our museum because of it.阅读更多