EditorialCertificate - Crossing the Equator, MS Nelly, Wittusen & Jensen AS, 3 Jun 1950, Crossing the Equator Certificate, published by Wittusen & Jensen AS, circa 1950. It was issued to passengers on the MS Nelly for crossing the equator on 3 June 1950. This c...
EditorialCertificate - Crossing the Equator, MS Nelly, Wittusen & Jensen AS, 3 Jun 1950, Crossing the Equator Certificate, published by Wittusen & Jensen AS, circa 1950. It was issued to passengers on the MS Nelly for crossing the equator on 3 June 1950. This c...
EditorialNegative - State Electricity Commission, Yallourn 'A' Power Station, Victoria, 1924 - 1929, Part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric pow...
EditorialMusa Nama (The Book of Moses) by Mulana Shahin Shirazi. Date/Period: 1686. Illuminated manuscript. Handwritten on paper; black ink, tempera, and gold powder; square and semi-cursive Oriental script Handwritten on paper; black ink, tempera, and gold pow...
EditorialTerracotta model of a boat, Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600?480 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, 1 1/16 x 2 5/16 in. (2.69 x 5.89 cm), Terracottas, In its simplicity, this piece conveys the fragility of ancient vessels in relation to the vastness and pow...
EditorialPotawatomi warrior in prayer On-saw-kie, the Sac 189, and chief Na-pow-sa, The Bear Travelling in the Night 190. Kaskasia man in western dress Kee-mon-saw, Little Chief 191 and his aged mother Wah-pe-seh-see 192. Handcoloured lithograph from George Cat...
EditorialJosef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine, he was drafted into the German army and returned to Poland and his old job in 1949, after years in a Russian POW-camp. His eldest son, aged 20, works in the same mine. B...
EditorialThe Chinese junk, "Keying", Captain Kellett. The Junk Keying was a Chinese junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United States and England between 1846 and 1848. She is of particular interest, since she testifies to the pow...