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George Eastman House is back, with 126 daguerreotypes from the Donald Weber Collection. Portrait of two men
Portrait of two men (c. 1860)
For Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian celebrates more women in science.
Ire`ne Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921
In the lead-up to St. Patrick’s Day, the Library of Congress has added Ireland to its travel photochroms on Flickr.
[Menawn Cliffs, Achill. County Mayo, Ireland]
The University of Washington has added a large set of photographs from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Arctic Brotherhood Building presentation ceremony
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian hasgone fishing!
Recolha de redes de pesca, Portugal
The Powerhouse Museum has made additions to the Roussel archive set in its Commons collection. Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth's K B Lager, 1920 - 1929
Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth’s K B Lager, 1920 – 1929

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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
London Lighterman

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Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The National Library of Walesadditions to its Geoff Charles collection include a young Ian Williams, in 1941. Mr. Williams, if you’re out there, let us know! Ian Williams of Trewern, Welshpool who dug up a
Ian Williams of Trewern, Welshpool who dug up a “V-shaped” for victory potato
The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian takes us underground in Lisbon – into the Metropolitano. Metropolitano de Lisboa, Portugal
Metropolitano de Lisboa, Portugal
The Oregon State University Archives has uploaded a new set of photographs of Native Americans, from the Gerald W. Williams Collection, and more images of infrastructure – this time bridges. Aerial view of the Pendleton Roundup
Aerial view of the Pendleton Roundup
It was a baseball kind of day (with a bit of football thrown in) for the Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection upload. Signs of spring? [John Brush Hempstead, son of the New York Giants president Harry Hempstead and grandson of the late John T. Brush (former president of the New York Giants), throws out first pitch of Game One of the 1913 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York
John Brush Hempstead … throws out first pitch …
We’re catching up with the DC Public Library! New to the RSS feeds but less new to the Commons are nearly 40 mostly colorized views of the city of Washington, D.C., including some that seem awfully familiar.
shoveled sidewalks following the an 1899 snow storm
The LSE Library features Lord Beveridge: LSE student, director, and author of “the Beveridge Report (officially, the Social Insurance and Allied Services Report) of 1942, the basis of the 1945-51 Labour Government’s legislation program for social reform”. William Beveridge (centre) at Suffrage Fancy Ball, c1910
William Beveridge (centre) at Suffrage Fancy Ball, c1910
From the Swedish National Heritage Board, we present Stockholm’s Villa Bonnier, in autochromes. Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
And the Bergen Public Library presents … the theater! The old theatre hall
The old theatre hall

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The Smithsonian Institution highlights the work of expressionist-influenced artist William Johnson, in William H. Johnson’s World on Paper – relief prints and serigraphs
Jitterbugs (III)
The National Library of Wales has uploaded photographs by photojournalist Geoff Charles (1909-2002), who worked for newspapers in north and mid Wales until his retirement in 1975.
Collection of scrap aluminium in Welshpool by the Women’s Voluntary Service
This week the Powerhouse Museum is all about Don Harkness – “pioneer in the Australian automotive and aeronautical industries, racing driver and record breaker”.
Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of the “Bluebird”, with crowd, 1926 – 1936
The Florida Archives have begun adding photographs from the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, focused on doll-making.
Mary Billie and her daughter Claudia C. John holding handmade Seminole dolls
The Oregon State University Archives adds to the Commons a set of photographs and postcards of railroads and trains.
Loading logs at Clatskanie, Oregon
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse features the village of Cornusson.
Cornusson, juillet 1904
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain collection upload includes World Series photos from 1913, but also entomologist Jean Henri Fabre.
Jean Henri Fabre
New photos of Spain from the Swedish National Heritage Board include this one, unidentified when uploaded – but not anymore.
Granada, Spain
We have more faculty and staff portraits from the LSE Library, including photos from this century – not something you might think of when you think of the Commons!
Patrick Dunleavy lecturing, c1990s

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The Bergen Public Library’s uploads include a set from the 1906 royal visit to the city.
The King and Queen leaving after placing the foundation stone
It’s Advertising Week at the Powerhouse Museum — with 15 photos from the Rousel archive. “The archive is a significant record of the work of an important Sydney signwriting and graphic design studio” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Large wall advertising signs for The Hub Ltd
Don’t keep up with the Flickr blog? Then you might not know about the Smithsonian Institution’s Timothy O’Sullivan upload this week, of Western landscapes.
Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, below Fortification Rock, Arizona (Wheeler Survey)
The OSU Archives go urban, with a set of towns and buildings of Oregon
Commercial Street, Astoria, Oregon, covered in snow
The State Library of Florida branches out – to the flowers at the ends of the branches. (Note that this visitor is unnamed — do you know her?)
Visitor photographing a blood lily (Scadoxus multiflorus) at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection upload includes portraits of the last of Russian royalty.
Czarina and Czarewitsch
The Library of Wales strengthens its Commons collection of John Thomas’s portraits of Welsh people.
Business Bob, Llanrwst
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse focuses this week on Caylus, a village northwest of Toulouse.
Vieux pigeonnier, Caylus, 5 juin 1906
The LSE Library has added more formal portraits of its faculty and staff, with extracts about some from obituaries, magazine features, and elsewhere.
Walter Hughes, 1982
The Swedish National Heritage Board has more 19th-century photos from Spain in need of identification – and some already identified before you read this.
Ronda, Spain (formerly: Streetview in unidentified town, Spain)

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As well as the Ansel Adams set belonging to new Commons member the U.S. National Archives, this week’s highlights include:

The Swedish National Heritage Board has uploaded more of Carl Curman’s honeymoon photos, including another unidentified site in Spain.
Unidentified town, Spain
The Field Museum brings us new (to the Commons) photographs from British Guiana in the 1920s.
Two women with buckets seated at waterside
It’s fishing season at State Library and Archives of Florida – for big fish. Mr. John Hachmeister and Mrs. Earl Baum admiring a 1,200 lb manta ray caught by Forrest Walker
The Library of Congress’s Friday upload this week is a set of illustrated newspaper covers of 1910 – one hundred years ago.
How much can Gotham afford to give thirsty neighbors?
It’s winter in the Netherlands – time for winter sports at Nationaal Archief! Bobsleeën, skeleton / Bobsleigh, skeleton
LIGC ~ NLW brings us portraits and people outdoors from Wales, including a dog that’s far too happy for the shutter speed of the camera.
Girl with a dog, Llansanffraid [Glynceiriog?]
The National Maritime Museum has added videos to the Commons for the first time from its film archive, from almost the whole of the 20th century.
Before the Mast (date unknown)
The State Library of Queensland, Australia has a set of colourful postcards of Queensland.
Band Rotunda in Queen’s Park, Maryborough, ca. 1930

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The Library of Congress has added to its Commons collections 22 photographs by the great landscape photographer of the American West Timothy O’Sullivan — and they’d like to know how you would like to see them focus future uploads along this line.
Humboldt Mts., Nevada
New from the Bergen Public Library: photographs from the 1898 Bergen Exhibition
The Industry Hall
Tje LSE Libraryhas added decades worth of staff portraits to its Flickr collections.
Brian Abel-Smith , c1980s
One of the new uploads from the Swedish National Heritage Board to the Curman collection is already part of a wonderful gallery: The Way Things Were, from CameliaTWU.
Seaside restaurant, Lysekil, Sweden
The Brooklyn Museum has added several more photographs to its Italian Cathedrals set, including some architectural drawings.
Cathedral, Pisa, Italy, 1895.
From the National Library of Wales, there is a new range of portraits and landscapes by John Thomas.
Newcastle Emlyn cricket team
Did someone say futebol? The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian hears you, with a set of photographs of Lisbon football stadiums.
Estádio Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal
Oregon State University Archives bring together some of their best, in Through the Season.
Skier on Mt. Hood

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The Powerhouse Museum adds to the photographs of people in the Tom Lennon Collection.
Jack Keating’s wedding
From the Brooklyn Museum, we have more Suggestify-able Italian Churches.
S. Maria dei Miracoli, Venice, Italy.
Oregon State University Archives contributes People Doin’ Stuff … Through the Seasons. Yes, it’s all tagged “People Doin’ Stuff”!
Students testing soil fertility
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian has added architectural and design photographs by Robert Chester Smith of Braga churches.
Sé de Braga, Portugal
The Library of Congress’s Friday, January 8th Bain collection upload of newspaper photos from the 1910s covers scandal, insurrection, death and destruction. And you wonder why the Friday uploads have their own following!
Revolucionarios – Haciendo – Fuezo – Propiedad Asezurada – Abril 10/911 Fot. I.H. (?)
The State Library of Queensland, Australia had a colourful week, with a new set of early-20th-century postcards
Sandgate beach and pier, Queensland
The Bergen Public Library has added an interesting portrait from 1846 to its Ole Bull set.
[Ole Bull, lithographic portrait]

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From Nationaal Archief, a set of remarkable — and often entertaining — inventions. I rather like the electrically heated jacket, myself. Amfibiefiets / Amphibious bicycle
The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its Swedish scenes and ancient monuments sets.
Rune stone, Jursta, Södermanland, Sweden
The Brooklyn Museum has uploaded hundreds of photographs of Italian churches — a real treasure for the architectural historian! You can help map them using Suggestify, from any photo page.
S. Frediano, Lucca, Italy, 1895
The Smithsonian Institution add to its People and the Post set.
Unidentified rural letter carrier in his cold weather gear
In case you missed it over the holidays, here’s The twelve days of Christmas, from the State Library of Queensland, Australian
Two turtle doves (two turtles)
The Library of Congress ended the year with a fresh upload of illustrated newspaper covers.
Colonel Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill
There are more aircraft photos and publicly produced short films from the State Library of Florida. Each film clip links to a full-length version of the film in the Florida archives.
Pilot Bill Lindley with his airplane
The Oregon State University Archives have fallen for waterfalls
Dry falls near Coulee City
The photostream of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiancarving and wall art.
Igreja Paroquial de Matosinhos, Portugal

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The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 58 prints — the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s entire collection — by Washington DC painter Gene Davis (1920-85)
Untitled, n.d.
You might not thing “sports” when you think “London School of Economics”, but these new LSE Library archival uploads will change that.
LSE Sports Day, Malden Sports Ground, c1920s
More in the LIGC ~ NLW collection of early photographs in their cases and frames
Man in bowler hat photographed in front of a carriage
The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian celebrates cycling in Portugal
Prova de Ciclismo, Portugal
The National Maritime Museum is very maritime indeed, with a series of Alan Villiers’ photographs of the Parma and its crew
One of the crew using a sailmaker’s palm
The State Library of Queensland, Australia is wrapping for Christmas!
Red Cross workers packing Christmas presents for the Fighting Forces during World War II,

1942

The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its sets of churches and antiquities
Viken Church, Skåne, Sweden
The Library of Congress’s December 11 Bain Collection uploads include New York City schoolchildren, athletes, and the funeral of Timothy D. Sullivan
Sullivan funeral – Bowery
Even as the Shuttle program winds down, the State Library and Archives of Florida celebrates Florida’s aviation history
Miami-Dade Junior College student pilot training in a DC-3 at the school of aviation
And please do join the Galt Museum & Archives at a tea!
Southminster United Church Men’s Club Tea