Sunday, February 28, 2010
The museum has been totally renovated, with many new artifacts and labels in English. It’s definitely raised the standards for Chinese museums. I’ve included the museum labels at the beginning of each gallery & each exhibit. In addition to 8 museum albums from 2010, I have 3 earlier albums from this museum. Photos by Gary [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
The museum has been totally renovated, with many new artifacts and labels in English. It’s definitely raised the standards for Chinese museums. I’ve included the museum labels at the beginning of each gallery & each exhibit. In addition to 8 museum albums from 2010, I have 3 earlier albums from this museum. Photos by Gary [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
From 1975 to 1979 I lived in Duluth, Minnesota, overlooking the entrance to the Duluth Ship Canal. I got my first Nikon in 1977, and in my spare time took photos of ships entering the harbor. Many of these are probably still sailing today. After the lake vessels, I added “salties” I photographed in Duluth, [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I’m somewhat of a closet railfan who grew up along the Illinois Central RR and rode the ICRR to and from the University of Illinois in the late 60s. These are copies of photos I took at several RR museums in the U.S. & Britain, mostly in the 1980s & early 90s, except for the [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
I took the Rock Island photos c. 1961 with a Brownie Bulls-eye camera & 620 BW film. This is the John M. Browning Museum at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois near the Mississippi River. The others were taken at various time & various places. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
My grandfather, Cecil Amos Todd, was born in Red House, West Virginia, in 1890. I’ve included photos I took in Red House many years ago, plus a 1947 family photo I copied. James Todd, my great-great-great-great grandfather, was one of the Virginia Militia who fought at Point Pleasant, and whose name appears on the monument. [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
In 1965 the Rockford West High School symphony orchestra played concerts in the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair, in Rockefeller Plaza in downtown New York, and on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. These are BW photos I took during that trip. I played trumpet. In 1967 I rented [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
In June, 1971, I began hitch-hiking across America from Phoenix, Arizona. This album shows the first part of my journey, from Tempe up to the Grand Canyon, where I hiked down the South Rim and up the North Rim before resuming my hitching-hiking. I spent a week at the bottom. Regrettably, I only had one [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, and Disney Studios in Orlando, Florida, taken in summer, 2009, unless otherwise noted. Amy Todd appears in many of these. I have added digital copies of older photos from visits in the 1980s & 1990s, along with a few from Disneyland California in 1976. Photos from [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The discovery of this tomb in Xinzheng, Henan, in 1923, along with the later discovery of FuHao’s tomb in Anyang, laid the foundation for Chinese archaeology. The main tomb belonged to a King of Zheng, dating to around 575 B.C. It contained two crane & lotus hu vessels, arguably the finest bronze castings made anywhere [...]