This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
World News In Pictures Highlights and Wonders
The page features a replica wedding cake for Queen Elizabeth admired by Jack Byrant of London who helped on Princess Elizabeths cake. It also shows the 200 inch mirror loaded for Mount Palomar observatory after 11 years of work at Caltech. Other items include a life saving slip signal from Ontario, Captain Charles Martin with the Bermuda Sky Queen, a window dress dummy incident in New York, a fly anatomy study at the American Museum of Natural History, and a note on a photographer cum scientist discovery of insect wing motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Elizabeth
Jack Byrant
London
Princess Elizabeth
Mount Palomar Observatory
San Diego
Calif
Opticians
Caltech
Charles Martin
Bermuda
mid-Atlantic
Hudson River
New York City
England
Atlantic
U.S. Coast Guard
Bibb
Sky Queen
American Museum of Natural History
C. H. Curran
Museum
Curran