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SS Mosel and insurance fraud

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小亚历山大·基思（Alexander Keith），在维基百科（Wikipedia）上找到的图像

1875年12月11日，在德国布雷默黑文的码头发生了可怕的爆炸，造成80多人死亡，还有更多的伤害和受伤。这个故事是从一个名叫Alexander Keith，Jr。的男人开始的故事，也以别名威廉·金·托马斯（William King Thomas）闻名。

Keith was born 1827 in Scotland and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia when he was a boy. As a young man he worked briefly for his uncle, Alexander Keith, who was a well-known and influential man in Halifax having served as mayor and owning a popular brewery,Alexander Keith’s。啤酒厂至今仍在运营。当内战在美国爆发时，基思看到了一个机会，并与邦联保持一致，尽管他抓住了所有机会利用北部和南方的机会。他是一个无情的人，最终与女仆和价值100万美元的投资跑去。他的受害者雇用了一名侦探来追捕他，使基思不得不向西移动，直到他最终到达伊利诺伊州的高地。基思结婚并安顿了很短的时间，直到1865年12月法律召集。当他有机会时，他和他的妻子逃到了他们过着高昂生活的德国。但是，正如通常发生的那样，金钱用完了，因此基思不得不提出一个计划来获得更多的计划。Read more

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行动正在移动！

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Entrance to the Museum

最近，我有幸在波士顿地区，能够参观我们目前正在租借的一些文物前往马萨诸塞州塞勒姆的皮博迪·埃塞克斯博物馆。他们的展览，Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style从现在开始至10月9日开放，之后将前往伦敦的维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆。我们向他们借了许多奇妙的作品，其中包括一些很大的东西。

In the second room, seen in the picture above, the engineering of these mighty ships was discussed and two of our artifacts were included. The first is the piece hanging from the ceiling, a towing tank model of SSUnited States。This model was tested in the U.S. Navy’s David W. Taylor Model Basin at Bethesda, Maryland in 1946. The other piece is the cream-colored half model on the wall to the right. It doesn’t look like much in this photo, but it is a 21′ plating model for SSUnited States, made in 1949.Read more

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Recent Projects

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05-17-2016（2）

We’ve had a number of interesting projects occurring lately, with two of the most exciting involving models. The last couple of months or so, we’ve had our two America’s Cup models (Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand from the 34th America’s Cup Race) put together in a diorama by Charles Landrum. That diorama was finished last week and it looks awesome!

下一个也是最后一步是为其制作案例，以便可以展示该作品。该西洋镜的目的是说明美国和新西兰船之间的2013年比赛之一。如果您有兴趣了解有关2013年比赛的更多信息，您可以查看我的博客这里or their official website这里。Can any one spot the dolphins and shark?Read more

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Returning Pieces

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千岛汽船公司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.

因此，我再次分享一些返回的作品。享受！Read more

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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.

这个系列（除了它的巨大程度）是如此之大的是，现在有多少奇妙的东西来到我们的博物馆。Read more

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