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| The Brooklyn Museum completes its extensive Commons collection of European cathedral photographs with a ghostly image. |  St. Jacques, Rheims, France, 1907 |
| The State Library of Queensland, Australia has uploaded photographs from the US military’s Australian presence in the Second World War. |  Witnesses in a stabbing incident in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, 1942 |
| From the Center for Jewish History, NYC, more holidays: Simhat Torah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. |  Children decorating Sukkot in Seoul, Korea |
| The OSU Archives bring us photographs of the Pendleton Round-Up of 1910. |  Groups watching the Pendleton Round-Up |
| From the Gulbenkian Foundation, the 1937 Paris Exhibition. |  Oliveira Salazar visitando pavilhão da exposição |
| From Nationaal Archief, a set of photographs of politicians and politics. |  Debuut van D66 in de Tweede Kamer |
| For fashion historians from the UW Digital Collections, hats! |  Brothers Eugene and Aubrey Levy, possibly in San Francisco |
| It was Bain Collection Friday at the Library of Congress. Check the first comment on this one for an interesting corner of American history. |  Kelly “Army” |
| NASA expands its Commons presence with additions to sets of both people, focusing on Clarence “Sy” Syverston, and spacecraft. |  Pioneer Saturn: project manager daily stand up meeting |
Restoration of Commons photos was the subject of a recent discussion in the Flickr Commons group. Here’s a restoration of a Commons photo by a Flickr user that has turned up since then in the group pool. We’re sure there must be more users out there restoring Commons photographs and cleaning up old scans!
 State Library of Queensland, Australia |
 Katarzyna Matylla |
| ORIGINAL | RESTORED |
I arrived at college in 1984 with my electric typewriter and a bit of BASIC learned in high school. I was a geography major, and learned to make maps in a cartography lab with vellum, ink, light tables, X-acto knives, and rub-on letters. I stopped using the electric typewriter within a year or two. Mapmaking was also changing rapidly. While making this gallery, I found a great pair of photos on the Commons to capture the moment of change:
 Eunice ‘Biki’ Wilson, 1984 |
 Geography Department, 1986 |
These photos were taken at the London School of Economics, two years apart. The photo on the left, taken in 1984, shows a cartographer in the Geography Department, Eunice Wilson, working on a map of Great Britain. She’s holding a pen, and two rotary phones are visible nearby. The photo on the right is taken in 1986, also in the Geography Department, but here the woman working on a map of France is using a handheld device (maybe a scanner), and a single-drive Macintosh computer is nearby. Another computer is behind her.
Are both women using the same model desk lamp? Maybe; some designs are classic.
Seb Chan of the Powerhouse Museum wonders … could this cat be the original LOLcat?
Group and a cat inspecting the car "F.H. Stewart Enterprise"
| The Australian War Memorial collection in the Commons now includes photographs from the Korean and Vietnam wars. |  Gunner Ernie Widders writes a letter from Vietnam |
| From the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, bridges, hotels, and parks in Portugal. |  Curia Palace Hotel, Portugal |
| The Center for Jewish History, NYC sends outs Rosh Hashanah greetings, including unusual historical cards. |  This card conveys the combination of Jewish identity (rampant lions supporting a star of David) with Austrian patriotism (the photograph of Franz Josef). |
| The Library of Congress has added to its Gottlieb Jazz Photo collection on Flickr. |  [Portrait of Adele Girard, Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C., ca. Feb. 1942] |
| And … puppies!! |  Theon Revell, Guy Revell, and Clinton Ashmore standing next to a dog and her puppies [Florida Memory] |
You’ll already find lots about the Commons and this blog on Twitter, but now you can follow us there directly: @indicommons. It’s a new account, few in posts for now, but before long it’s bound become a good place not only to find what’s new on the blog, but also to hear about discussion in the Flickr Commons group and about other things happening in the Commons and museum/archives/libraries communities. See you in the Big Conversation!
On the anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, a look back to near the end of construction, in Wil Blanche’s 1973 photographs.
Overlooking the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, the Towers of the World Trade Center Soar Skyward to a Height of 1,350 Feet 05/1973
Blanche photographed the WTC construction as part of the nationwide, multi-photographer Documerica project. See the rest of his WTC photographs in the U.S. National Archives collection in the Commons: