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!

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

(more…)

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

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

view + comment on Flickr

This one’s for you, Shelley!

The Nancy Grey with a whale, Norway.

Library of Congress

A whale in Sydney Harbour.

State Library of New South Wales

Model of a whale.

Smithsonian Institution

Posing on whale bones.

State Library and Archives of Florida

Stranded blackfish whales.

National Library of New Zealand

Whaling / Walvisvaart

Nationaal Archief

A sperm whale jawbone.

Nantucket Historical Association

A large whale skeleton.

Field Museum

Whale-back at pier.

Brooklyn Museum

Mary Dillwyn
Harry and Amy Dillwyn (children of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn), 1853
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales: viv00060 (pb02376/35)

World Book Day is a celebration of reading in the UK and Ireland that’s “trended” worldwide at times on Twitter today. Seems we want World Book Day to really encompass the world!

Kobel Feature Photos (Frankfort, Ind.)
Jess Dixon in his flying automobile, c. 1940
State Library and Archives of Florida: 32399-0250

We’d like to expand the Indicommons site by adding Flickr API applications to show off some of the great content in The Commons … and we need your help!

While those of us at Indicommons who can code would love to do this ourselves, we’re finding that we don’t have the time to devote to this task. So, we’re looking for developers who are familiar with the Flickr API to help us out. Unfortunately, this would be need to be done gratis with attribution, as we aren’t monetizing our site, but if you’re interested in The Commons and would like to contribute your skills, we’d love to see what you’ve got.

The following is a list of suggested requirements for the application(s):

• The app will be hosted on our server
• Does not require authentication
• Recent photos from each institution in the Commons, limited to the No Known Copyright Restrictions designation
• A page to handle each institution’s Flickr profile and display their sets
• Commons search
• Commons timeline (a calendar view by date taken)
• Map of the Commons (preferably using Open Street Maps)

In the future, we’d like to see authenticated apps that enable visitors to tag, favorite, and comment on Commons photos as well as to curate galleries, but for now the above few requirements are fine.

If you’d like to develop for Indicommons, please drop us a line in the comments on this post or contact me at zyrcster [at] indicommons.org. Thanks!

From Pablo G. Capistrano, a.k.a. pum chak (o.-) – Play ball!

State Library and Archives of Florida	pum chak (o.-)
ORIGINAL	REMIX