Photos taken in USA and tagged as museums

Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, River_Boat

Date: 18 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval vietnam_war
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Hunley

The Confederate H. L. Hunley was the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship.

Date: 16 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Lafayette & James

The painting is "Lafayette at Yorktown" by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, 1783. James collected intelligence for Lafayette.

Date: 16 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
Tags: museums revolutionary_war
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Dance_Card

Date: 16 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Cloths Exhibit

The museum was having a special exhibit of clothing styles in different colors.

Date: 16 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Blunderbuss

The blunderbuss was a favorite weapon for pirates since it shot a wide pattern at close ranges.

Date: 16 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Photo of Boat into_Bldg

The remains of the Browns Ferry Vessel are being lowered into the Rice Museum in Georgetown after they removed the roof of the bldg

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
Tags: boats museums
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum Davis Quadrant

This Quadrant was used for navigation. It was found on the Browns Ferry Vessel and was used for navigation

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Browns Ferry Vessel Model

Texas A&M built this scale model of what the Brown's Ferry Vessel probably looked like

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Browns Ferry Vessel

This is what remains of the oldest vessel found to date that was built in Colonial America. It was built about 1700.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Hand Tools

These were some of the hand made tools on display at the Gullah museum.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Sweetgrass Baskets

These were for sale and we saw quite a few shops along the 'Sweetgrass Basket' highway. Slaves brought their knowledge of how to weave baskets from Africa with them and adopted them to local grasses and reeds.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
Tags: museums gullah
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Sign

This was a shop, but has been expanded to a somewhat informal museum by the shop owner and his wife.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Midwife Quilt

A midwife would use a quilt like this to explain the birthing process to an expectant mother. Each section illustrates a different step.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, History_Quilt

This lovely quilt tells the store of the Gullah people, from being captured and enslaved to America. You can purchase it for about $3,500

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Dolls

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Andrew Rodrigues

This was our host for the Gullah shop and museum. He was very knowledgeable but insisted only only one picture.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
Tags: people museums
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum_Bldg_2

The Rice Museum in Georgetown is contained in two separate buildings. This one has wrought iron facing on the street level.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice_Museum

This part of the Rice Museum is in the old public market.

Date: 14 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_101_-_Maritime Museum Life_Car

This was built about 1890 for the USLife Saving Service to save people from shipwrecks

Date: 11 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
Tags: boats museums
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Day_101_-_Maritime Museum, Liquor_Chest

This 18th century liquor chest was one of the luxury items afforded a ships captain. This one carried 8 bottles, 2 tumblers and 3 stemed wine glasses - all hand blown