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1972, Opening of the Gibbs Gallery

This shows the opening of the Gibbs Gallery in 1972. The celebration is being held in the Great Hall and at the opposite end of the room was where the front of the exhibition was. What’s great is that a lot of the pieces you see in the Great Hall are still on display in various places of the museum today. The eagle, the figurehead on the wall and the lighthouse lens way in the back. I believe the figurehead is in almost the exact same spot now as she was then.

这张照片显示了两名家伙，其中包括我们的模型船只的展览。我认为墙上的地图很棒，因为你可以看到每艘船类型都来自哪里。它让我想起了我们的国际小型工艺中心，以及我们如何从我们乘船的国家的天花板上挂上旗帜。Read more

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1971, Building of the Gibbs Gallery

This first picture shows construction on the Gibbs Gallery in 1971. It was built to commemorate the achievements of William Francis Gibbs, probably best know for designing and supervising the building of SSUnited States. In 1922, he and his brother, Frederic Herbert Gibbs began the company that would eventually become known as Gibbs & Cox.

Here we have the Junior League of Hampton Roads in 1961 who acted as tour guides for our visitors. And behind them is our beautiful eagle figurehead from USSLancaster.Read more

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Artifact of the Month – Painting of SS Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Kaiser Wilhelm.

Today’s object of the month is an oil painting featuring the steamshipKaiser Wilhelm II在埃及的大金字塔前面。我记得当我第一次遇到它时，我认为这是一个如此奇怪的形象，船完全从水外面，但当然这就是寓言绘画应该如何看待。随着我的兴趣激动，我去看看文件文件夹，看看这幅画的背景是什么。为了让我沮丧，文件中没有任何信息，并且错误的艺术家甚至被归因于这幅画，尽管左下角有明显的签名。

我是一个好奇的人,自然,所以没有knowing anything about this painting was rather painful. Taking what little I knew about it, which was basically just the artist, I turned to my best friend for answers, Google. I soon found out that the artist, Otto Bollhagen, was a well-known painter in Bremen, Germany. This is where he set up his ‘atelier’, meaning studio. Underneath ‘Atelier Bollhagen’ on the signature is ‘Bremen’. The business Otto started in 1892 continues today under the leadership of a great-grandson.Read more

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April Artifact of the Month – Baseball Series

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Baseball autographed by Yogi Berra. Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum.
Baseball autographed by Yogi Berra. Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum.

In honor of America’s pastime and the recent start of the baseball season, this month’s artifact is a collection of baseballs from here at The Mariners’ Museum. There are currently three here at the museum with one on display and two that are not on display, and hidden in the hold. While a baseball does not sound like something that would usually be present at a maritime museum, these all have provenance that legitimizes their right to be here.

一个在展示上的两个棒球由威廉·弗朗西斯·吉布斯拥有，这是一个最闻名于他的SS的设计United States. Along with his brother Frederic, Gibbs designed 1,000 foot ocean liners and eventually began producing the ships in the early 1900’s after encouragement from the Navy and with the funding of J.P. Morgan. The brothers produced designs for ships from their naval architecture firm, Gibbs & Cox, and produced plans for thousands of ships during World War II. The baseballs themselves were the personal property of William Gibbs and were included with a number of other personal items that were accessioned into the collection.Read more