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  • Artifacts with a Stinky History

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    There’s something large and brown inside of it!! Wait, it’s a FROG!

  • Beyond the Frame: Uniquely Jane

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Women's History

    A square painting filled to bursting with spectacular color and energy hangs on a rack in painting storage. Every time I pass this rack, it catches my eye and I say to myself “I need to wait on this one”. But these pieces have a special way of working themselves into my head and so on a gloomy late winter day I decided it was time.

  • I say Mortella. You say Martello.

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    Sometimes the quirks of technology can reveal something really interesting! While compiling a list of objects in our Collection related to submarines, our Collections Management System threw me a curveball.

  • Threading Stories Throughout our Collections

    • Collections
    • Exploration

    One of the best parts of my position here is that I get to see all of the new objects as they come in. A recent acquisition was especially exciting, because there are so many wonderful stories to tell within this single object!

  • Fabulous Fotos: Meet Cricket, the mighty tinclad

    • Military
    • Photography

    Upon first glance, this vessel appears to be just another steamboat. But tinclad vessels? Sounds a bit wimpy to me. It turns out that Cricket has a great history, albeit not significant, in the American Civil War.

  • Tell Me About It: Protective Gear or Telecommunication?

    • Photography
    • Technology

    Imagine my surprise when I found out that this contraption is a Speaking Tube–I had cataloged it as a gas mask. The photograph is World War I vintage (that’s my excuse!).

  • Beyond the Frame: Everything

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    This episode is a pretty big departure from the normal “structure” of Beyond the Frame. This is for a few reasons, and I want to share those with you. I like to try to give extra context with these blogs when I can and this is an episode that I think deserves a little extra context.

  • USS Monitor: Oil Reservoirs

    • Conservation
    • Technology
    • USS Monitor

    Oil reservoirs are a tool commonly found on USS Monitor‘s engine. Also known as an oil cup or lubricating cup, they were used on steam engines to keep valves and levers constantly lubricated.

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