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2014-08-24-Salem, MA-Peabody Essex Museum

By ThomasCarroll235
Sep 04, 2014
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2014-08-24-Salem, MA-Peabody Essex Museum

Sep 04, 2014
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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

The Turner Exhibit (Joseph Mallord William Turner, a member of the Royal Academy was an English Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Some of his works are cited as examples of abstract art prior to its recognition in the early twentieth century.)

Georgia and Liz dismounted from their brooms in Salem to pose for this shot

East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Ship Figure Head, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

A Chinese Mandarin

East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Artifacts- East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Helmet- East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

17th Century Japanese tea cups-East India Marine Hall

Ship Figure Head, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Ship Model and portraits of some of the museum's founders

Detail-Indian Ship Figure Head, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Ship Figureheads-East India Hall

East India Hall, Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

A spectacular, vey large model of the Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth (She first entered service in February 1940 as a troopship in World War II, and it was not until October 1946 that she served in her intended role as an ocean liner.)

A spectacular, vey large model of the Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth (With the decline in the popularity of the transatlantic route, both ships were replaced by Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1969. Queen Mary was retired from service on 9 December 1967, and was sold to the city of Long Beach, California. Queen Elizabeth was sold to a succession of buyers, most of whom had adventurous and unsuccessful plans for her. Finally she was sold to a Hong Kong businessmen Tung Chao Yung who intended to convert her into a floating University cruise ship. In 1972, while undergoing refurbishment in Hong Kong harbour, she caught fire under mysterious circumstances and was capsized by the water used to fight the fire. In 1973, her wreck was deemed an obstruction, and she was partially scrapped where she lay.)

Incredible detail-Model of the Queen Elizabeth

Incredible detail-Model of the Queen Elizabeth

Incredible detail-Model of the Queen Elizabeth

Figurehead beaconing visitors to the Peabody Essex Museum's Maritime Art wing

An immaculate Studebaker Avanti, designed by the great industrial designer, Raymond Loewy (The Studebaker Avanti was a personal luxury coupe built by the Studebaker Corporation between June 1962 and December 1963. Studebaker itself referred to the Avanti as "America's Only 4 Passenger High-Performance Personal Car!" in its sales literature)

An immaculate Studebaker Avanti, designed by the great industrial designer, Raymond Loewy

Tom with one of his dream cars

A play on Salem's witch theme

Liz and Georgia in Salem

Liz and Georgia in Salem

Witches are big business in this town

The East India Marine Hall, Salem. Dedicated in 1825 (The reopening of the stunning "new" Peabody Essex Museum in June 2003 calls to mind another related event that took place in 1825 -- the completion and dedication of the oldest of the PEM's gallery buildings, the East India Marine Hall.

The hall was a by-product of the East India Marine Society, which was organized in 1799 and incorporated early in the following year. Membership was limited to ships' masters or supercargos who had sailed around either Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope.

The purposes of the society were to share navigation information relating to the East Indies; to provide benefits to members who had been disabled or to the families of members who had died; and "to form a Museum of natural and artificial curiosities, particularly such as are to be found beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn.")

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