Archive for June, 2010

Kick-off Time!

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Uncategorized
Lagendaal schiet naast / Dutch player shoots on goal but misses

Lagendaal schiet naast / Dutch player shoots on goal but misses

Start your World Cup football season with Nationaal Archief’s Voetbal / Soccer set! And we’ll see some of you again sometime in July …

Happy International Archives Day!

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News

Mrs. Adelaide Minogue Checking Humidity Recorder in Stacks, August 12, 1942
U.S. National Archives: 64-NA-346

Penny notes:

Mrs. Minogue knew what she was doing; Adelaide E. Minogue was author of The Care and Preservation of Records (Bulletin of the National Archives #5, 1943), and articles on related topics.

Grotesque Head from Reims Cathedral

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons
Grotesque Head from Reims Cathedral

creator: unknown
Grotesque Head from Reims Cathedral,
Building Date: ca. 1211-ca. 1260
Photograph date: ca. 1880-ca. 1895
Cornell University Library: 15/5/3090.01579

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Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
From Upper Arlington Archives, photographs from 1918, from war to baseball, and good dose of fishing!
Upper Arlington Fishing Club Feast Along the Scioto River, 1918
New uploads from National Maritime Museum include images of several different institutions related to London shipping and more besides. (Researching London and maritime history? Most images are dates.)
Cleopatra’s Needle: construction of the cylinder around the Needle for transport to London
SMU Central University Libraries have cowgirl postcards!
Mildred Douglas riding wild steer
The Swedish National Heritage Board invites now-and-then photos in comments on its recent photos of places in Sweden.
Ornunga Old Church, Västergötland, Sweden
It was trains week at the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian .
Comboio, Portugal
Oregon State University Archives shows off Yaquina Bay.
Beach below Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
Bergen Public Library adds to its Ole Bull photographs.
Alexander Bull and friend
The Brooklyn Museum’s recent Italian Cathedrals upload includes some spectular detail photographs.
Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1895.

Rephotography, by and from Cornell

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Then and Now

grotesques

grotesques


Cornell University Library posted today in the Flickr Commons group Then and Now topic, letting us know that

One of our librarians has done an amazing set of “Rephotography” with the images in our A.D. White Architectural Photos collection.

And it is indeed! Enjoy this set from unionpearl.

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
UW Digital Collections has added to the Commons a large set of landscapes from the first half of the 20th century in Washington State, Alaska, and the Yukon.
Mountaineering in the vicinity of Index, Washington, ca. 1900
Also in the western U.S., Oregon State University Archives has added to its Flickr sets from the Gerald W. Williams Collection.
Young campers at Neah-Kah-Nie Beach, near Nahalem, Oregon
Across the Pacific, the Powerhouse Museum has added to its Tom Lennon Photographic Collection on Flickr.
Debutantes presented to Lady Julius at Grecian Ball
Back on the U.S. east coast, the Center for Jewish History celebrates basketball.
Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball
And across the Atlantic, the Bibliothèque de Toulouse features Cornusson …
Le sol, Cornusson
… the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian brings us processions in Portugal (where exactly remains unidentified) …
Procissão, Portugal
… and it’s Eisteddfod season at the National Library of Wales!
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd, Caerdydd 1965