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 |
| We’ll start with drinks in the garden at the villa … |  Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Then over to the Maypole, specially decorated for our festivities. |  Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden |
| Some water fresh from the well? Ask Calla Curman! |  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 |
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.
 George Eastman House |
 Brooklyn Museum |
 Bibliothèque de Toulouse |
 George Eastman House |
| George Eastman House is back, with 126 daguerreotypes from the Donald Weber Collection. |  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 |
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 |
| “This is my husband’s Grandmother … She passed away when my husband was young …” –sewcrazzed |  Arline Wilma Preston |
| “I lived in the apartment just upstairs… just above where she is pointing …” –nippyfish |  Mitchell’s Book Corner |
| “My brother and I worked behind the soda counter for many summers …” –natkg |  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 Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4427428828_e6a20da67b_m.jpg) 1890s: Library of Congress |
 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!
| 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 |
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 |
 Field Museum Library |
 U.S. National Archives |
 U.S. National Archives |
 New York Public Library |
