Misc Museums

Very romantic. Taken in the Toy Museum, Stockholm Image processed with GIMP.

The gears of a machine at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. It is a steam-powered printing press. This is a "tool", indeed a very important one in the history of the world. While the original hand-operated presses appeared in mid-1400's, the effect of the printing press is still being felt today in 2023. The historical researcher Elizabeth Eisenstein makes the point that society is still trying to deal with the impact of this invention. The original photo is in color, but I kinda liked the converted image. The conversion was done with GIMP. The photo was taken with the Panasonic GX85.

There are over 10,000 bears in this small building near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Not shown is the bear we donated. This place is currently (2021) closed, sad to say. See: swansonphotos.com/bears.html

Taken at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah, in 2014. This is the bell on a diesel locomotive. They had to put the bells lower down on these, unlike steam locomotives where the bell was right on the front on top. I converted the image to monochrome using GIMP. See: swansonphotos.com/ogden/ogden_rail.html

Taken at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah, in 2014. I converted the image to monochrome with GIMP. See: swansonphotos.com/ogden/ogden_rail.html

Taken at the New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, Indiana. This table contains some examples of the logo china used in the fancy dining cars of the NYC. Image processed with Imagemagick.

Taken from inside one of the trolley cars they have at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in southern California. They have everything from interurban "red cars" to the various trolleys that worked Los Angeles (and other towns). You can see the front, side and doors of another trolley through the windows of this one. The left side of the window view is the front of a Los Angeles trolley, in the green and gold color scheme. To the right are the "automatic" doors of another trolley. The seating inside was pretty simple: a bench. Image processed with GIMP