The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collectionuploads includes athletes, men of business and politics, royalty, celebrities, battle sites … and a mine disaster in Cardiff, Wales.
The National Library of Wales‘ additions to its Geoff Charles collection include a young Ian Williams, in 1941. Mr. Williams, if you’re out there, let us know!
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.
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.
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”.
The Smithsonian Institution highlights the work of expressionist-influenced artist William Johnson, in William H. Johnson’s World on Paper – relief prints and serigraphs
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.
This week the Powerhouse Museum is all about Don Harkness – “pioneer in the Australian automotive and aeronautical industries, racing driver and record breaker”.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 58 prints — the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s entire collection — by Washington DC painter Gene Davis (1920-85)
