Sunday, November 27, 2011
The first artifacts shown here were owned by Leonid Brezhnev and are currently in my possession. The photo album was presented to him by 18th Army veterans, for whom he served as political commissar during WWII. These are published here for the first time. The 63-piece ribbon bar includes his Order of Victory which he [...]
These 2 rooms of jade & bronze in the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., were not here in 2009. They have such a large collection that they rotate it. The photos I took then are posted in a separate album labelled Chinese & Asian Art. It can be located on the website [...]
The siege of Vicksburg by Union General Grant and its surrender in 1863 was a turning point in the War Between the States. The battlefield photos follow the auto tour shown in the brochure photos at the front of this album. The USS Cairo was sunk in the Mississippi River, raised 102 years later, restored, [...]
Here are three museums dedicated to U.S. airborne operations: the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, North Carolina; the 82nd Airborne Museum located at Ft. Bragg; and the Special Warfare Museum, also located at Ft. Bragg. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/FortBraggAirborneMilitaryMuseums#
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is housed at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It has 5 main galleries of ancient artifacts which I have photographed and placed into 4 albums on my website. Three are from July, 2009; the fourth was added July, 2010. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International [...]
Oil baron J. Paul Getty built this villa near Los Angeles based on a Roman villa buried in the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. It houses his personal collection of antiquities collected from ancient Etruria, Greece, and Rome. Most pictures of artifacts are preceded by a museum label describing the artifact in greater detail. [...]
This album deals exclusively with modern weapons. I have two separate albums for ancient weapons in the Military Museum. There are quite a few U.S. weapons on display here, so I’m listing this album under both “United States Museums” and “Chinese Museums.” Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The Bishop Museum deals with early Hawaiian history. Pearl Harbor, site of a major U.S. naval base, is famous for the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, which brought the U.S. into the Pacific War. Iolani Palace was the palace of the last Hawaiian kings & queen, until the U.S. took over in the 1890s. [...]