Unidentified street with railway tracks, Montreal, QC, 1920

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons
Unidentified street with railway tracks, Montreal, QC, 1920

creator: Wm. Notman & Son
Unidentified street with railway tracks, Montreal, QC, 1920,
1920
Musée McCord Museum: VIEW-19346

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Happy Commonsversary to the Swedish National Heritage Board

Posted by Penny in News

Join us in celebrating the first anniversary of the Swedish National Heritage Board in the Flickr Commons!

Stella welcomes you! Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden
Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden
We’ll start with drinks in the garden at the villa … Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Then over to the Maypole, specially decorated for our festivities. Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden
Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden
Some water fresh from the well? Ask Calla Curman! Calla Curman at a well, Spain
Calla Curman at a well, Spain
And we’ll finish the celebration with dancing, led by the Runestone Man — jazz hands, everybody! Rune stone, Krogsta, Uppland, Sweden
Rune stone, Krogsta, Uppland, Sweden
Love what you see? There’s more — a whole year’s worth!

The Commons through Green-Colored Glasses

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Development, Tools

With Paul Hagon’s new tool for searching the Commons by color, you can see the Commons in green not just for St. Patrick’s Day but any time … and in orange, violet, or whatever color suits your mood or needs. Paul’s Commons-by-color tool is a work in progress, but one that users are already loving.

Cowgirl
George Eastman House
Paris Exposition: Chateau of Water and Palace of Electricity, aerial view, Paris, France, 1900
Brooklyn Museum
Ruisseau dans les jardins de Monte-Carlo
Bibliothèque de Toulouse
West Point cadet
George Eastman House
Interested in also playing at developing Commons tools, or already have one? We’d love to talk to you!

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
George Eastman House is back, with 126 daguerreotypes from the Donald Weber Collection. Portrait of two men
Portrait of two men (c. 1860)
For Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian celebrates more women in science.
Ire`ne Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921
In the lead-up to St. Patrick’s Day, the Library of Congress has added Ireland to its travel photochroms on Flickr.
[Menawn Cliffs, Achill. County Mayo, Ireland]
The University of Washington has added a large set of photographs from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Arctic Brotherhood Building presentation ceremony
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian hasgone fishing!
Recolha de redes de pesca, Portugal
The Powerhouse Museum has made additions to the Roussel archive set in its Commons collection. Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth's K B Lager, 1920 - 1929
Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth’s K B Lager, 1920 – 1929

Happy Commonsversary to the Nantucket Historical Association

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Articles, Personal Connections

The NHA’s has been a quiet presence in the Commons, but its photographs of Nantucket’s sites and people are still being found by the people closest to them, and we celebrate those today:

“This is my relative. She also went by the name of Flossie. She was Chappaquiddick Wampanoag …” –wealthywamp Almira West Williams
Almira West Williams
“This is my husband’s Grandmother … She passed away when my husband was young …” –sewcrazzed Arline Wilma Preston
Arline Wilma Preston
“I lived in the apartment just upstairs… just above where she is pointing …” –nippyfish Mitchell's Book Corner
Mitchell’s Book Corner
“My brother and I worked behind the soda counter for many summers …” –natkg Congdon's Pharmacy, c. 1910s
Congdon’s Pharmacy, c. 1910s

Happy anniversary, Nantucket! And if you, reading this, or yours are from Nantucket or passed through, take a moment to find your history in the Commons!

Sackville & O’Connell, Dublin, then and now

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Then and Now
[Sackville Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)
1890s: Library of Congress
Sackville Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland
2010: shammael
THEN NOW

Find many more in the Flickr Commons group Then & Now topic for the Library of Congress’s new views-of-Ireland photochrom upload – and watch the Flickr blog for more! In Ireland today and feel like going out to shoot your own, like shammael did? We’d love to see them!

100 Years Ago Today: New Wing of the Met

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Today in the Commons
New wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be opened tomorrow (LOC)

New-York tribune, March 13, 1910
New wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be opened tomorrow
Library of Congress: http://lccn.loc.gov/2007618519

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
Nationaal Archief, for International Women’s Day, released a housekeeping set – photos joyful and serious of women’s and men’s everyday routine.
Wasgoed wordt gemangeld / Laundry is being passed through the mangle
The DC Public Library has released a large group of photos by E.B. Thomson, including much in color.
In the White House
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection uploads includes athletes, men of business and politics, royalty, celebrities, battle sites … and a mine disaster in Cardiff, Wales.
Cardiff mine disaster
The National Maritime Museum has new photographs from the Portlands. London Lighterman
London Lighterman

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Women of the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Across The Commons

The Commons provides a wealth of photos of the half of the world being celebrated today, International Women’s Day — every one of them uncommon and important in her own way.

Wilhelmina Drucker, women’s rights pioneer, is portrayed by Truus Claes on the occasion of her seventieth birthday (1917).
Nationaal Archief
Gwyneth Richards, the only girl in the YFC taking part in sheep shearing competitions in Wales (1944).
National Library of Wales
Eileen Power, Professor of Economic History from 1931 to 1940, London School of Economics (1930s).
LSE Library
Co-eds with hoes: The county experimental hop yard recruited Oregon State College coeds for a quick job of hoeing (1944).
Oregon State University Archives
An unnamed 14-year-old striker, actress and political activist Fola La Follette, and prostitute-turned reformer Rose Livingston (1913).
Library of Congress
Rita Trudget (or Trudgett), wicket keeper, in Moore Park, Sydney, Australia (1930s).
State Library of New South Wales
Paramaribo market scene
Field Museum Library

U.S. National Archives

U.S. National Archives
Woman carrying bundle on head, Natchez, Mississippi, August ...
New York Public Library

Finlay, deerstalker in the employ of Campbell of Islay

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons

Robert Adamson, David Octavius Hill
Finlay, deerstalker in the employ of Campbell of Islay, about 1845
National Galleries of Scotland Commons: PGP HA 530

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