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| Weather Station Mock-up, Mt. Washington Observatory Museum. |
The Mt Washington Discovery Museum is across the street from the Eastern Slope Inn in N. Conway. The museum houses displays about the weather observatory atop Mt. Washington and the important collection of 1937 aerial photographs of the White Mountains taken by Brad Washburn.
Brad and Barbara Washburn have donated the complete portfolio of 63 negatives from the 1937 Washburn Collection to the Mt. Washington Observatory. Brad is an author and photographer; his first book, published in 1926, was a guidebook to the Presidential Range. He is also well known for his landscape photography and his challenging aerial shots of Mt. Washington, which he took through an open airplane door while flying low over the snowy peaks.
The images on the Washburn website have been drum scanned from Brad’s original negatives to a digital file. All of these images can be ordered in print form in a variety of sizes, framed or unframed. The images on display in the museum are stunning. The collection can be viewed on-line at:
We returned home via Jonathon's Seafood where Charlie bought Lobster Rolls for our lunch. What a great lunch we had. (Jean was at her Kennett HS class reunion at the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson - she missed our lunch.)
For evening supper we loaded the 7 of us into two cars and headed for Flatbread Company in N. Conway. Delicious flatbreads cooked in the wood oven.
This was a day to celebrate the White Mountains and good food.
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| Retired Snocat Mt Washington Discovery Museum N. Conway, NH. |
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