Saturday, August 30, 2008
St. Louis was the starting point of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the “Gateway to the West.” The St. Louis Arch commemorates this. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/StLouisMissouri#
Thursday, August 28, 2008
My dad was a P-47 fighter pilot in World War II (see first picture) and aviation editor for the Rockford Newspapers, so I grew up around airplanes. These are all WW II aircraft still in operation, many owned and flown by the Confederate Air Force. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
These are American aviation museums & static displays, mostly from U.S. Air Force bases. National Air & Space Museum Smithsonian photos in separate album. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/AviationMuseumsStaticAircraftDisplays#
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
These are some not-so-good-quality copies of photos I took at several museums of historic American warships in various port cities. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/AmericanNavalMuseums#
Henry Ford collected all sorts of things: automobiles, airplanes, household appliances, industrial machines, houses & buildings. He admired Thomas Edison and had Edison’s entire Menlo Park laboratory shipped to Michigan. The museum displays some of Ford’s collections, while Greenfield Village is made up of buildings he had shipped there from all over America and England. [...]
Col. Robert R. McCormick was publisher of the Chicago Tribune Newspaper. During World War I he served as a colonel in the First Army Division, the “Big Red One.” He named his Wheaton, Illinois, estate Cantigny after the village in France where his division saw much action. He built a museum depicting the history of [...]
This museum features the U-505, the only German U-boat captured during World War II. I also have some historic locomotives here, but so far have not been able to locate the rest of my photos from the museum. I will add them if and when I do. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of [...]
This is another great museum which I visited many times before I started seriously taking photos. Someday I hope to return and do some serious picture-taking there. In the meantime, I am posting all that I have. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/FieldMuseumOfNaturalHistory#
This museum in New York City has one of the world’s greatest dinosaur collections. It doesn’t exactly follow my main theme of ancient Chinese artifacts, but I thought some people might be interested anyway. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory#
Part of the University of Chicago, this museum houses many artifacts from the expeditions to the Ancient Near East and Egypt beginning in the 1920s. I have included the museum’s very helpful historical and descriptive plaques, so I did not feel it necessary to add captions to this album. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., [...]