Photos tagged as museums

Day 70 - Hershey Museum, Apostolic Clock

One of the more interesting exhibits in this museum is a giant clock. Once an hour, figures of the twelve apostoles come out of the doors and move around a figure of Christ.

• Date: 10 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Hershey, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Stankard Botanical

Paul Joseph Stankard creates delicate glass flowers sometimes including root structures, using glass rods and gas flames, a technique called "flameworking", then encases them in a glass block.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Pressed Glass Board

In addition to displaying many types of glass objects by era and type, the museum includes very informative signage about the background, methods, history and sometimes uses and artists.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Nursing Bottle

One of the early uses for glass in America was for nursing bottles.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Millville Rose

Anthony "Tony" DePalma, who was a Wheaton glass artist for many years, invented a method to create a glass 'rose' inside a paperweight.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Milk Glass Cat

Mom had one of these, although with white eyes, that she inherited from here mother. It was one of her most cherished possessions, but met an unfortunate demise at the ruthless hands of a vacuum cleaner.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Worlds Largest Bottle

This was cast in Wheaton on 9/26/92. It is 7' 8" tall and has a capacity of 188 gallons.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Art

This piece is at the entrance to the Museum and is one of their more popular pieces. The hands were cast from the artists grandparents, parents, then himself. The glass dripping represent passing down the glass making art from generation to generation.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass History

This board shows the significant dates in glass history. I had to take it from the side to reduce glare, but is still interesting.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, South Jersey Green

In the 18th and early 19th century, American glassworkers generally used local sand. In New Jersey, the sand included impurities such as iron, which gave the glass an aqua/green tint. This became known as "South Jersey Green" glass.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Edison Lightbulb

This is a replica of the first successful lightbulb created by Thomas A. Edison. Glass was so critical to the development of the lightbulb, the Menlo Park Complex included their own glass blowing operation.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Cranberry Glass

There were many different types of glass and methods for coloring glass on display. I especially liked this color, which was also very popular during the Victorian period in England and America. The color is caused by Gold oxide.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Very Early New Jersey Glass

The green color comes from impurities (iron oxide) in the south NJ sand. The swirl pattern was common for German glass makers as it made it harder for the bottle to slip out of ones hand.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Chess Set

This artist had a Jewish father and Catholic mother (I didn't take notes, so might have that backwards). Anyway, he created this chess set to represent the conflicting religions in his own background as well as in society in general.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, 1800's Model House

The Museum has two model rooms set up to demonstrate how glass was used in daily life. This one represents an 1800's era household.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Recipie

Sand is the major ingrediant in glass, but other compounds are used as well, including lime, soda and saltpeter.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Molds

Sometimes molds had to be quite complex, with multiple ways to close & compress the glass (or open without breaking a complex shape).

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, General Store

Unlike most 'period' general stores we've seen, this one actually is a store - you can buy the usual assortment of items, especially glass related.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Gallery Stores

These stores sell some of the higher end glass pieces, as well as other types of pottery or craft work. They are not cheap however, one "Millville Rose" paperweight was marked at $250.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Entrance

It was cold, but there was no wind, so both Mom and I were able to enjoy the crisp fall day very well.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Steps in Glass Cutting

This example shows the four different stages in cutting glass: 1. Mark the pattern in red, 2. Make deep, rough cuts, 3. Make fine, rough cuts, 4. Polish

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Museum of urban planning, Shanghai

• Date: 5 November 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Shanghai, China: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Yard Sign

This gives you some idea how large this Railway Museum is

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Photo of WWI Troop Train

During WWI, trains were the most common form of transportation to get troops to and from home. Communities would turn out to see their men off or welcome them home.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, SRS Detector Car

Sperry Rail Service Detector Car (1928). This was initially built as a self propelled baggage/passenger car. In 1945, Sperry modified it to use to find faults in RR tracks. It remained in service until 2003, finding over 20,000 defects in tracks.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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