The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has been prolific in its uploads since the new year, with hundreds of new regional images, including stereoscopic landscapes, stamps, ships, bullfights, and warmer days in Biarritz.
After several weeks on hiatus, Recent Uploads is back! For the next few posts, Recent Uploads could be as “recent” as November, but we hope you’ll discover something new in the Commons that you’d missed in the meantime.
Montreal, Canada’s Musée McCord is also back, with new sets of Canadian ships and trains, winter and summer sports, and children with toys.
Just below the Canada-U.S. border, George Eastman House, an early Commons member, brings more of its fine collection to the Commons — from the animal world … adorable kittens included.
And also in the American West, the University of Washington Digital Collections a sizable set of photographs of Federal Emergency Relief projects from the mid-1930s, from construction projects to housing for the homeless — a significant addition to the growing amount of Depression-era American photography to be found in the Commons.
The State Library of Queensland, Australia, has added a postcard from the First World War to its photographic postcard collections. Watch for more new Armistice Day photographs from Commons institutions this week.
From the National Library of Wales, images by Geoff Charles of groups of people — many surely alive or identifiable — gathered for work, for celebration, and more.
Also very active, the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian photostream includes new images of silver, construction projects, factory interiors, and more.
The U.S. National Archives expands its Commons holdings across all its categories, from landscape to historical imagery to the 1970s Documerica project.
Bain Collection Friday at the Library of Congress last week included baseball, boxing, tea, international meetings, ice dancing, and a range of often-mustached people in the news.
