New Items from the Grenville Collins Collection Gallery

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island - maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco, California, USA. Operated as a jail from August 11, 1934, until March 21, 1963. The main prison building was built in 19101912 as a United States Army military prison which was the use at the time of the publication of this specific card. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Athens, Greece - Relief sculptures - Theatre of Dionysus

Athens, Greece - Relief sculptures - Theatre of Dionysus. Alterations carried out in the third century AD by the archon Phaedrus included the re-use of earlier Hadrianic reliefs (pictured here), the so-called Bema of Phaidros, which were built into the front of the stage building. Date: 1933

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1930s, 1933, 30s, Acropolis, Art, Artwork, Athenian, Atlas, Bema, Carving, Carvings, Dionysus, Eleuthereus, Foot, God, Greece, Greek, Hadrianic, Jan20, Phaidros, Plays, Relief, Reliefs, Sculpture, Sculptures, Theatre, Thirties, Wine

Parma was a four-masted steel-hulled barque which was built in 1902 as Arrow for the

Parma was a four-masted steel-hulled barque which was built in 1902 as Arrow for the Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London. In 1912 she was sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany. During the First World War she was interned in Chile, and postwar was assigned to the United Kingdom as war reparations. She was sold back to Laiesz in 1921. She was sold in 1931 to Ruben De Cloux & Alan Villiers of Mariehamn, Finland. Following an accident in 1936, she was sold and hulked at Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, for two years before being scrapped. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection