Recent Uploads to The Commons on Flickr

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Your weekly round-up of the latest items from The Commons’ digital archives:

The New York Public Library also dazzles us with color images of the Hudson River Valley; this set coincides with their new exhibition Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009.

Pssssst! They are geotagged!

Bay and Narrows of Hudson, Peekskill, N. Y.
Mapping New York’s Shoreline: The Storied River
The National Library of Wales adds more sepia images of 19th-century Swansee. Mumbles
Early Swansea Photography
26 new images from the Smithsonian; rain, shine, or hail – that postman always brings the mail! Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada
People and the Post
Travel in style with more in-flight photos from the State Library and Archives of Florida. Aircraft fuselage of a New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line airplane
Florida Flights of Fancy
Travel to France to enjoy the scenery with the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Pssssst – they geotag, too!

Porte ogivale, Bruniquel
Tarn-et-Garonne
They also have added to an interesting set on minerals. Faux polis, Eaux-Bonnes, 25 août 1898
Règne minéral
Cathedrals, steamers and runes are posted from the Swedish National Heritage Board. Steamer in the ice, Lysekil, Sweden
Carl Curman – Sweden
The State Library of Queensland, Australia, posts a shot from an unknown photographer of Margaret Lawrie; be sure to click through the photo to read her story. Margaret Elizabeth Lawrie, ca. 1945
Picture of the week
Yay! 53 new newspaper illustrations from the Library of Congress! A man is known by his pets, some people say
Illustrated Newspaper Supplements

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