A new month means it’s time again for more #WayBackWednesdays photos, showing the exciting history of our museum. This first picture (directly below) shows the front entrance of the museum (now the business entrance) in April of 1937. A lot has changed since then as our museum has grown and further developed the area around the building. I really like the old cars and buses visible in this shot as it makes you wonder if that was the only parking spot for museum visitors. Probably so!
This next photo (below) shows children operating a bilge pump fromUSSHartford这是放置在博物馆。泵是ca 1865, so it’s great to see that it still worked for these kids. Hartford was famous as the flagship ofRear Admiral Farragutduring theBattle of Mobile Bayin 1964. She was disposed of in Norfolk, Virginia in 1957, which is likely why we have the pump. 90+ years is an extremely long life for a ship, so she must’v been well built.
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