Regarded Gallery

Commander E. Smith, Captain of the Titanic

COMMANDER EDWARD. J SMITH Captain of the ill-fated Titanic. Commander Smith was a highly regarded and experienced captain who had worked on a number of White Star Liners before captaining the Titanic. Smith went down with the Titanic; his last noted words were Be British

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Switzerland - Rosenlaui, The Wellhorn and the Wetterhorn

Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Rosenlaui alpine valley with the mountains Wellhorn and Wetterhorn in the background. The Wetterhorn (3,692 m), was first climbed in 1844, by Stanhope T. Speer. The 1854 ascent by Alfred Wills and party is more celebrated and is generally regarded to have marked the beginning of the golden age of alpinism'.. Slide number 27 of Box 181 entitled Swiss No.1'. Date: circa 1890s

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China - The Temple of Heaven

Lantern slide of shrine in most northerly building, temple of heaven. The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven (pinyin, Tiantan, Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It has been regarded as a Taoist temple,[1] although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism.. Part of Box 159 Pekin, slide no. 23 Date: circa 1890s

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