Watercolor of Cristina Stavenschi
Postcard published by Sofart Studio, Chișinău, 2025.
Located on 79 Ștefan cel Mare Boulevard, the main frame of the building was erected in 1931 – 1932. The building was designed by architect Nicolae Stănescu in neoclassical style to host conferences, concerts, a museum, a library and an art gallery. The works of construction were completed betwin 1949 and 1954 by the Russian architect Galina G. Galadzheva.
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Bono - Bus Nº 359838 B
The Servicio Municipal de Transportes was created by the Málaga City Council in 1949, following the bankruptcy of the Sociedad Municipal de Tranvías.
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The Kon-Tiki Museum is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo. It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. It was opened in a provisional building in 1949. In 1957, the current building, designed by architects F. S. Platou and Otto Torgersen, was opened. In 1978, an extension of the museum designed by Torgersen was opened. The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. Another boat in the museum is the Ra II, a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed.
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Postcard published by Delacauw-Stellemans, Ostende, Nº 70.
The Prinses Josephine Charlotte ferry, 113.05 m long and 15.97 m beam, with capacity for 100 vehicles and 700 passengers, was built in 1949 at the Cockerill Hoboken shipyard in Antwerp. She sailed the Ostend - Dover route from 3 June 1949, to 29 June 1952. After being sold to a Greek shipping company, she returned to Ostend in 1969 to cover the route between that port and Harwich (England). In November 1970, she was incorporated into the Sealink consortium. She was withdrawn from service in 1974, and on 8 March 1976, she was sold to the Blanca Shipping Company of Panama, which changed its name to Leto. In 1977, it was acquired by the Greek shipping company G. Kausouniadis, which renamed it Athens Express, which used it for domestic voyages and for routes from Piraeus to Cyprus and Syria. After several accidents, it was scrapped in Eleusis Bay, Greece, in 1984.
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Reprint in postcard published by L'Alsace merveilleuse de Hansi, 44955.
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Advertising postcard published by G.S., Genova.
Conte Biancamano was an Italian ocean liner built at the William Beardmore & Co shipyard in Dalmuir, near Glasgow (Scotland), by order of the Genoese shipping company Lloyd Sabaudo. She was launched on 23 April 1925 and made her maiden voyage from Genoa to New York on 20 November of the same year. She had a capacity of 180 first class passengers, 220 upper class, 200 second class, 390 economy class and 660 third class. In 1932 Lloyd Sabaudo, along with other shipping companies, was merged into Italia Navigazione and Conte Biancamano was assigned to direct routes to South America. In 1934 it was used for military purposes, transporting troops and war material on behalf of the Italian Navy in preparation for the Ethiopian War, and in 1936 it was chartered by the Lloyd Triestino Company, one of the companies of the group, which used it on direct routes to the Middle East. In December 1941, when Italy entered the war, the ship was seized in the port of Colón (Panama), and in 1942 it was requisitioned by the US Navy, converted into a warship in the Philadelphia shipyards and used as a troop transport ship under the name USS Hermitage. After the war it was used for the repatriation of thousands of American veterans, first from Europe and then from the Pacific. She was withdrawn from service on 20 August 1946 and returned to Italy in 1947. In 1948 she was refitted as a passenger ship at the Monfalcone shipyard and on 14 July 1949, under her original name, she resumed sailing on the Genoa-Buenos Aires line, which she continued until 21 March 1950, when she was transferred to the Genoa - Naples - Cannes - New York line. In 1956 she sailed on the Genoa-Caracas route, and on 26 March 1960 she embarked on her last voyage: Genoa - Naples - Barcelona - Lisbon - Halifax - New York. She was dismantled in La Spezia the following year.
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Steam Ship Pułaski was built in 1912 and purchased in 1930 by the Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company (later Gdynia America Line). In the years 1930-39, she sailed as a civilian passenger and cargo ship mainly between New York and Gdynia. From 1939, she was used as a military transport ship in the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. Was broken up in 1949.
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Postcard. Photo Artur Wieczorek (2022).
Średzka Kolej Powiatowa is a 14 km narrow gauge railway line originally connecting Poznań with Środa Wielkopolska, preserved to this day in rudimentary form. The line was built between 1898 and 1902. In 1949 it was integrated into the national company Polish State Railways (Polskie Koleje Państwowe, PKP).
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Postcard published by Verlag Bockelmann, Langenargen, Nº 777 (1960s).
The MS Deutschland was built in Deggendorf (Niederbayern) by the Deggendorfer Werft und Eisenbau Gesellschaft, and was put into service on 4 June 1935. Between 1949 and 1952 it sailed under the name Lindau, and from 1952 it regained its original name, which it maintained until 1970, when it was named Überlingen II. She was demolished at the end of 2005. She had a length of 56.30 m, a width of 11.80 m and a draft of 1.65 m. Its speed was about 25 km/h, and it could accommodate 800 people. Between 1935 and 1945 it was owned by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and between 1945 and 1994, by the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1994 the property passed to the Bodensee Schiffsbetriebe GmbH.
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Postcard published by Acacia Card Company, New York, Nº 113 (1949).
Photo: Ewing Galloway.
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Postcard published by Dennis Productions, Scarborough & London, F.0446.
The Maid of Orleans was a passenger vapor ferry built in 1949 by Denny Shipyard in Dumbarton (Scotland), for the British Southern Railways. She made her maiden voyage from Folkestone to Boulogne (France) in 1949. She was laid up in Newhaven in 1975, prior to being sold to Spanish ship-breakers.
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The Virginia de Churruca ship was built at the Unión Naval de Levante shipyard and put into service in May 1949 for the Elcano National Company under the name of Conde de Argelejo, and since its delivery it was leased to Compañía Trasatlántica Española, which acquired it in property in 1952 and renamed it Virginia de Churruca. In 1973 it was sold to the Compañía Transmediterránea, which changed its name to Isla de Formentera. She was scrapped in late 1978.
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The Saaremaa Museum was founded in 1865 by the Saaremaa Uurimise Selts (Saaremaa Research Society), created that same year. In 1925 the collections were transferred to the Kuressaare fortress. In 1940, after the occupation of Estonia by the USSR, its name was changed to Home History Museum, and it recovered its original name during the German occupation (1941-1944), and in June 1947 it was opened again to the public, and thereafter the collections of the department of history and natural history were completed. In 1949 the Soviet authorities added the departments for Socialist Reconstruction and Patriotic War. In 1959 it changed its name again to the Saaremaa House History Museum, and in 1990 the original name was definitively restored: Saaremaa Museum. In 1991, after the proclamation of the Republic of Estonia, items introduced during the Soviet era were removed from the museum. In subsequent years, the spaces of the fortress were remodeled, which in 2003 was nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Postcard published by Postimuseo, Tampere, Nº 79 (1997). Reprint of a old postcard.
The S/S Ariadne was a passenger steamship owned by Suomen Vöyrylaiva Osakeyhtiö, which operated from 1914 to 1968. She was designed by shipbuilding engineer Hugo Lindfors and built at the Lindholmens Verkstads Ab shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden. She had 128 class I, 58 class II and 54 class III cabin seats, and in addition there were 260 seats on deck, so a total of five hundred passengers could be embarked. The Ariadne began operating on the Helsinki - Tallinn - Stettin line on May 2, 1914. On August 4 of the same year, after the start of World War I, the Russian government seized the ship and moored it as a hospital ship in the port of Helsinki, where it remained until 1918, when the Russians left Finland. Starting in the spring of 1919, the Ariadne operated the Helsinki - Hanko - Stockholm route in the summer season and the Helsinki - Copenhagen - Hull route in the winter season before the ice arrived. In 1921 she resumed the Helsinki - Tallinn - Stettin line. She had the official status of a postal ship. After the outbreak of the Winter War, the Ariadne was stationed first at Uusikaupunki and later at the Swedish cities of Holmsund and Stockholm. In 1942-1943 the ship was leased to the German Navy and as a hospital ship she transported wounded soldiers to Germany. At the end of the Continuation War, in September 1944 she again became a hospital ship for Finnish soldiers. From June 1949 to 1967 the ship operated the Helsinki-Copenhagen route, and then the Helsinki-Tallinn and Turku-Stockholm routes. She was taken out of service in September 1968 and in July 1969 she was sold for scrapping.
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SS Sołdek is a retired Polish coal and ore freighter. She was the first ship built in Gdańsk (Poland) after World War II and the first seagoing ship completed in Poland. She was the first of 29 ships classed as Project B30, built between 1949 and 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska.
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