![[Kidwelly Castle, Carmarthen, Wales] (LOC)](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2584/3751646063_55b3de42a2.jpg)
| New this fall at the State Library and Archives of Florida: From Florida from orbit and hurricane video from 1928 and an interview about the assassination of President Kennedy to many photos of airplanes . |  Passengers on a Pan Am Boeing 307 |
| From the Oregon State University Archives, my favorite set name: People doing stuff in the Herman Bohlman Collection — okay, they’re really photos *from* the collection, of people doing stuff. But it’s a great title. Also from Oregon: photographs of Oregon dams and of salmon fishing. |  Fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls |
| The Swedish National Heritage Board brings us new views of old churches, additions to its set of ancient monuments, winter scenes, portraits, and more in the Carl Curman collection. |  Man with bike beside rune stone, Boberg, Östergötland, Sweden |
| From the LlGC ~ NLW, in Wales, we now have early sepia photographs of many kinds from Swansea and a set of photographs shown in their original cases and frames. |  Mr & Mrs Oakley at the Hunt |
| The Galt Museum & Archives has added to the Commons more Alberta studio portraits and a set of photographs of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (in which my mother-in-law served) from the Second World War. |  CWAC Celebrating VE-Day London 1945 |
| The LSE Library follows on its Commons debut with many more photographs of faculty, staff, students, and visitors a the London School of Economics, including Tony Blair, Karl Popper, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. |  Madeline Albright, 2000 |
| New this autumn (spring in the south of the world) from the National Maritime Museum: Many images of individual ships, and some as well of Naval College staff and of buildings in the area of London ports, with a scattering of other related photographs — all of it being aspects of the life of the Port of London and the River Thames. |  Men gathered around a beacon in thick smog (1920s) |
| From the State Library of New South Wales, there are new Sam Hood photographs from places to eat and drink, of more Art Deco architecture and design, and of shops on all scales. There’s also plenty of beach life — a tease to us northerners whose winter is beginning! |  Hotel Wellington bar, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood |
| The National Library of New Zealand’s recent uploads have celebrated Auckland at night in photographs by William Archer Price, have taken us to Antarctica with Herbert George Ponting , and have looked at the architecture of Wellington. |  Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912 |
| From the New York Public Library comes a generous celebration of baseball in New York and Philadelphia, a collection of colorful Hallowe’en postcards, and a set of historical images of people playing musical instruments . |  [Banjo players.] |
| The State Library of Queensland marked the Australian-born Movember with a remarkable set of Moustaches — and marked the month as well with a set of often deeply moving photographs from the First World War, one of which marked Armistice Day on this blog. |  W. Elliot (undated) |
| The Australian War Memorial marked Armistice Day with a welcome home kiss of many years ago. |  A welcome home kiss, 1919 |
| And Nationaal Archief is, as so often, entertaining as well as historically interesting, with an upload of autumn and winter fashion, just in time for the season (some years ago!). Aviation buffs will enjoy the set of “90 Years of Civil Aviation“. |  Dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar showing one of his designs |
“Real” life swamped our Recent Uploads posts … well, recently. But we’re back in gear, to let you know what’s new in the Commons. Starting with some of the earliest Commons member institutions …
| The Library of Congress’s Bain Collection Fridays include more baseball and also archery and football; Brooklyn children, New York playgrounds and East Side babies; and quite possibly the sexiest diving photo I’ve ever seen (go find it!). There are 51 more additions to the newspaper supplement collection, and more of those popular (and beautiful) autochrome travel photographs, this time of Holland. |  Capt. Storer, 1910-15 |
| The Powerhouse Museum has a new set of beautiful sepia photographs of the Garden Palace from the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 (with “personal” connections for the Powerhouse Museum). There are also stereographic photographs from the mid-19th century by William Hetzer don’t miss the detailed historical information that accompanies this set. And in case you thought that Australia was all buildings and scenery, a recent upload of photographs of large groups of people, of all sorts. |  Macquarie Place, Sydney, 1858-1860 |
| The Brooklyn Museum has been gradually uploading images from the collections of curator/historian William Henry Goodyear, focusing on the architecture and art of Italy. So far these are in two sets: Palazzi, Villas and other Dwellings and Cloisters and Convents |  Villa de Papa Giulio, Rome, Italy |
| New from the Smithsonian Institution: 27 images related to the postal service, including mail-censorship and wrecks on the way; new color slides from the Archive of American Gardens; historical images from the Reverend James Osborne Arthur collection, of reservations in Nebraska and New Mexico in the 1910s; photographs from (and of) the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation; and more gorgeous views of outer space. |
 Oswald Smith family, September 1, 1914 |
| The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has added new images from Caylus, Tarn-et-Garoone, in its Trutat collection. |  Porte ogivale, Caylus, 5 juin 1906 |
| And the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian had added over 200 new images, ranging from museum exhibitions of fashion and art objects to scenic landscapes to historic events. Of particular note are images of the collections of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, the 1927 Semana dos Hospitais, and gatherings of artists. |  Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, Lisboa, Portugal |
From the Flickr Commons thread highlighting some of the remarkable images of bridges across the Commons:
| Castle and suspension bridge, Conway (i.e. Conwy), Wales, ca. 1890–ca. 1900 (more about the Conway bridge). | ![[Castle and suspension bridge, Conway (i.e. Conwy), Wales]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3752435594_770fd0be5e_m.jpg) Library of Congress |
| Suspension bridge, Niagara, ON, 1869, designed by John Roebling (before the Brooklyn Bridge), photographed by William Notman. |  Musée McCord Museum |
| Templand Bridge, Cumnock, Scotland, ca. 1890–ca. 1900. | ![[Templand Bridge, Cumnock, Scotland] (LOC)](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3370/3450350986_29a719c93b_m.jpg) Library of Congress |
| The Brooklyn Bridge in 1905, printed in 1977. |  George Eastman House |
| The Ness Road Bridge in Inverness, Scotland, between 1890 and 1900; the bridge was demolished in 1961. | ![[Inverness from castle, Scotland] (LOC)](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3449520749_53756264ec_m.jpg) Library of Congress |
| The 14th-century Pont Valentré, Cahors, France, June 1902, photographed by Eugène Trutat. |  Bibliothèque de Toulouse |