Some models were returned to the inventors' families, and many were destroyed.
After they stopped being produced, in the 1850's, many were destroyed.
In Zinjibar, residents said government buildings and stores are shut down; many were destroyed by the shelling and airstrikes.
Some trees have been — and continue to be — cut by local peasants, but many were destroyed either by foreigners or to pay off debts to foreigners.
It is rare, for example, to find original stained glass windows, he said, because many were destroyed by bombs during the Spanish Civil War.
Many were destroyed or landlocked by bulkheading in the 1920s and then by the arrival of Beach Channel Drive, a new bay-front parkway in the '30s.
Most of the tombstones in the exhibition were carved in the 18th and 19th centuries and many were destroyed when the Nazis obliterated nearly all the Jewish cemeteries.
Because they were illustrations for commercial magazines, Mr. Lehman said, there was no great significance attached to the works themselves, and many were destroyed.
Only about 80 works by Kirchner remain today because many were destroyed by the Nazis, who considered his work degenerate art.
