NEW YORK (AP).- For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation’s most storied warships — sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines. T…
Important Early Photographs of Yokohama by Father of Photo Journalism for Sale
LONDON.- Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 O…
Important Early Photographs of Yokohama by Father of Photo Journalism for Sale
LONDON.- Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 O…
MFAH Announces Exhibition from the National Gallery of Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced today a stunning loan exhibition of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The exhibition will present a selection of…
MFAH Announces Exhibition of Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced today a stunning loan exhibition of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The exhibition will present a selection of…
Buyer in North Carolina Defends Photo Thought to Show Slave Children
RALEIGH, NC.- A collector is defending his recent purchase of a century-old photo believed to depict children born as slaves after similar images found online called its rarity into question. The photo found in a North Carolina attic in April was part …
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH,
NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a
North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and
wearing
ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young
boy. Art
historians beli…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH, NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extre…