Chinese and World History

This is another one of the world’s greatest museums - actually about 15 or so museums. It’s the first one I ever photographed, back around 1979, so many of these photos are pretty old. My more recent photos of the Freer and Sackler galleries, and especially the Chinese bronzes, are either lost or in storage in America. If I find them, I will add them. Obviously, I need to go back again sometime with my digital camera. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/SmithsonianInstitution#

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., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/OrientalInstituteChicago#

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#

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#

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 the First Army Division and created a foundation to make the museum & estate free to the public after his death. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/FirstDivisionMuseumCantignyIllinois#

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#

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 International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/WarbirdsAircraftOfWorldWarII#