A few nice history images I found:

‘Hanging by a Thread’, United States, New York, New York City, American Museum of Natural History

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Below is an excerpt from my travel blog. Cheers.

I went to New York’s American Museum of Natural History over the weekend. It’s interesting to note that most of these museums are impossible to capture in HDR as museums aren’t too fond of tripods. The Museum of Natural History’s security guards are few and far between so I was able to snap a few shots without being hassled.

The museum has a great collection of specimen and artifacts. Pictured above is a life size whale hanging in the Hall of Ocean Life. The dinosaur exhibit is my favorite and probably the most popular. I’m told it’s actually one of the most extensive collections in the world.

Albany Institute of History and Art ~ Albany New York ~ Historic

Image by Onasill ~ Bill Badzo
The institute’s three-building complex includes the late 19th-century Rice Building, the only freestanding Beaux-Arts mansion in the city, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and donated to the institute by one of its former benefactors. Its main building is a 1920s Classical Revival structure designed by local architect Marcus T. Reynolds. A more modern glass structure connects the two. The original two buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. At the beginning of the 21st century, the institute completed an extensive renovation in which the entrance building was constructed and new climate-controlled storage space for the collections was built.