One of the nice surprises is the Red Banner Textile Factory (1925-37), by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn: its curved streamlined facade, punctuated by a row of slender black smokestacks, evokes a steamship, another Modernist obsession.
His steamships issue black smoke, adding to the range of colours in his sky.
Rather than acknowledging these deep-seated local drivers of the drug trade, though, the first floor of the museum closes with a life-size diorama of a mischievous Westerner – complete with a pink blazer and black top hat – arriving via steamship to introduce drugs into Burmese society.
Of particular interest is a small black box with a scene of a steamship stippled in white on its inside lid and a band of flowers stenciled in gold and silver around its exterior.
But if you want a more potent image of American freedom, it's the time in 1862 that a black slave named Robert Smalls stole a Confederate steamship from Charleston, South Carolina, harbor and piloted it straight into Union territory.
Over a hill you can make out a black smokestack belonging to an early-20th-century steamship that once toured Lake Champlain, dry-docked on the lawn.
Franco continued his career as a filmmaker with The Broken Tower, a 90-minute docudrama shot in black and white about poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
The steamship Arabella sails on.
Followed his father into family steamship business.
The steamship made it over the mountain.
