Salvaged from watery depths, the sunken treasures from a pair of shipwrecks lay underwater for hundreds of years before being acquired by the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Now, these artifacts, including a pair of massive 12th-century stone statues and a trove of blue and white ceramics, will star in “Lost at Sea: Art Recovered From Shipwrecks,” a new exhibition drawn exclusively from the museum’s collection.
Baltimore, U.S.A.: 1943
"Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where this Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. Douglass, the noted orator and abolitionist leader, worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dockhouse is rivet heater Willie Smith." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Roger Smith for the Office of War Information. View full size.
On this day we remember the tragedy of the SS Eastland disaster. The S.S. Eastland, known as the “Speed Queen of the Great Lakes,” was part of a fleet of five excursion boats assigned to take Western Electric employees, families and friends across Lake Michigan to Michigan City, Indiana, for a day of fun. But the trip quickly turned tragic and resulted in the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
The Eastland, docked at the Clark Street Bridge, never left the Chicago River. Tragedy struck on July 24, 1915 when the ship rolled over into the river at the wharf’s edge. More than 2,500 passengers and crew members were on board that day – and 844 people lost their lives, including 22 entire families.
For more detailed information visit http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/ Images from the Eastland Disaster Historical Society. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Tn4k_gAdR/?igshid=p70nnc5j7x8b
Ferdinand Horvath Merbabies King Neptune Concept Painting Original Art (Walt Disney, 1938)
This Silly Symphonies short was a collaboration between Disney Studios and the Harman and Ising studio, as the latter had contributed artists to the production of Snow White for Disney. If was one of the last of the Silly Symphonies shorts, and it was the first and only Disney cartoon short produced by an outside studio.
--The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg (detail), showing various installations with smoking chimneys and large groups of workmen — Source.
The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis - Though the 17th-century whaling station of Smeerenburg was in reality, at its height, just a few dwellings and structures for processing blubber, over the decades and centuries a more extravagant picture took hold — that there once had stood, defying its far-flung Arctic location, a bustling urban centre complete with bakeries, churches, gambling dens, and brothels. Matthew H. Birkhold explores the legend.
Ship fire