Fotoarkivet NTM

Unknown decorator paints the wallpaper on the passenger and cargo ship M/S Blenheim B/N 490, built by Akers Mek. Verksted in Oslo, delievered to Fred. Olsen & Co in 1951.

Front page of the catalogue for the first Norwegian car exhibition in May 1909.

Viewing the launching of the cargo ship M/S Taurus, B/N 482 6. april 1948 at Akers Mek. Verksted. The ship was delieverd to Wilh. Wilhelmsen.

The cargo ship M/S Baldrian, B/N 486 before launching at Akers Mek. Verksted 29. april 1947. The ship was delivered to Fred. Olsen & Co.

After the bombing of the Rena Kartongfabrikk, Hedemark, April 19 1940.

Pylons transfering electricity. From Våladalen, Notodden where the electrochemical company Norsk Hydro was established in 1905. Chemisist and amateur photographer Per Stang photographed the scenery April 17 1910.

King Haakon VII and the director at Akers Mek. Verksted Carl Nicolai Aamundsen entering the cargo ship  M/S Taurus, B/N 482, April 6 1948. The ship was owned by Wilh. Wilhelmsen. Oslo city hall in the background.

The royal family greeting representatives of the union at the shipyard Akers Mek. Værksted in Oslo, April 6 1948 when the cargo ship M/S Taurus B/N 482 was launched.M/S Taurus was owned by Wilh. Wilhelmsen.

Wood substituted gas during Worl War II. Strømmen Værksted outside Oslo produced buses from 1929 onwards, called Strømmen-busser. Passengers went by this bus on the route Ålesund - Skodje - Søholt - Vestnes in the North-Western part of Norway. 

M/S Bomma B/No 475, built at Akers mek. Verksted, Oslo, for Fred Olsen in 1938. The ship was called the “gold boat” because parts of the Norwegian golden reserve were transported by this boat from Norway to Great Britain after the German invasion in 1940.

The German invasion of Norway was April 9th 1940 and Norway was involved in World War II. The tram company Oslo Sporveiers operated transport of goods as welll as passengers. Photographed at Stortorget in Oslo during the war, with the motor wagon no 56, built in 1899, rebuilt in 1919, in front and Nazi posters on the shed behind the hay bales. The statue of the Danish-Norwegian king Kristian IV behind the tram.

Two female skiers drawn by a horse, a male skier in the background. The sign shows the road to Voksenkollen Hotel and Sanatorium built in 1897, burned down in 1917. Holmenkollen, Kristiania. Stereoscope.

Portrait of Miss Hogg and her doll, ambrotype mounted in Anglo-American case, mid 19th Century.

Tram from Majorstuen in the center of Kristiania (Oslo) to the ski resort Holmenkollen, with skiers and skis for recreation and out-door activities about 1900.

Finn Amundsen working at NRK radio, reports from a ice skating competition at Lillehammer 1951, smoking. 

Nadja Frank and Alfred Næss during a skate show at Frognerkilen in Kristiania in th 1890s.