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Recent Uploads to the Commons: Summertime

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This week, eat out with the Nationaal Archief.

Automatiek / Automat for snacks

Or keep company through the dog days with the State Library of Florida.

Jesse Messmore Dakin petting dog while cat sleeps by piano in the living room at the Racimo Plantation

Feel the music of new jazz set uploads from the Library of Congress.

[Portrait of Buddy De Franco, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947]

Go to the Expo with the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Exposição do Mundo Português, Lisboa, 1940

Take a hike with the Center for Jewish History.

Blau-Weiss hikers with instruments

Tour Lockhart State Park with the Texas State Archives.

Lockhart State Park – Combination Building – SP51_061

Visit New Orleans with the SMU Central University Libraries.

[New Orleans dock, lower left, with the French Quarter and the Saint Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square lower right]

Or get married with the National Library of Wales!

Wedding group

Posted August 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons: New Views

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New views from the University of Washington’s Digital collections range from dams and shiny new streetscapes of decades past to people taking in the view.

Chuckanut Drive near Bellingham, Washington

Across the continent, the Nantucket Historical Association posts its views … in colour, from the Congregational Church tower in 1968.

View from the Congregational Church tower, showing Brant Point

The views from the Powerhouse Museum are plentiful! 239 new images in all representing the broad range of the Powerhouse’s Tyrrell collection.

Excelsior

The view from Oregon State University is international in scope, with new lantern slides and lecture-booklet photos from Niaraga Falls to the Middle East and more.

Water Carriers, Nile

The Brooklyn Museum’s cathedral-focused gaze turns from Italy to France.

Church of St. Quentin, St. Quentin, France, 1903.

The Swedish National Heritage Board’s new views are of Spain and Sweden.

Göteborg (Gothenburg), Västergötland, Sweden

The view from the Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkia sweeps Portugal.

Estrada Marginal Lisboa – Estoril, Portugal

SMU Central University Libraries bring us both the view and the professional viewer.

[The Hindenburg]

While the Smithsonian looks around closer to home, in and around Washington, D.C., on a tour with Martin Gruber.

Chain Bridge

Posted August 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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Catch up with the Smithsonian before they head even farther from Earth …

Stellar Shrapnel Seen in Aftermath of Explosion …

Recent batches of photos from the Keene and Cheshire County (NY) Historical archives include may homes identifies with owners’ names.

Symonds, J. House in Keene New Hampshire

Upper Arlington Archives focuses its lens on 1918 and 1919 local history. This photograph was published as part of a collage.

Baseball Game, Panoramic View, 1918

The Center for Jewish History also focuses on the First World War years and after. Identifications are welcomed!

Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at Kings Park, NY, 1923

The National Maritime Museum has 27 new ships … and a few more that fly.

A flight of three Supermarine Southampton Mark II Flying boats …

From the Bibliothèque de Toulouse, photographs from Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, including stereographs.

Monte-paille

The Texas State Archives canvasses Tyler State Park.

Tyler State Park – Development Plan – SP.54.153

Posted August 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The Library of Congress has been particularly busy of late in the Commons, with autochrom travel views from Italy and 219 photos from the Gottlieb collection of jazz photos along with more additions to the Bain Collection.

Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948

Recent uploads from the Galt Museum include this 1927 Lethbridge, Alberta, soccer team, all identified by surname.

Lethbridge and District Soccer Team

The Brooklyn Museums’s Commons collection of nineteenth-century photographs of religious architecture continues to grow. Few photos, however, include another camera and tripod, like this one.

Cathedral, Amiens, France, n.d..

From the State Library of Queensland, Australia, locomotives!

Unloading C17 Locomotives from M.S. Belray at Pinkenba Wharf, 1927

Like the Brooklyn, the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian has been off to church, and other, secular places and times in Portugal.

Igreja do Convento de Nossa Senhora da Encarnação das Comendadeiras de São Bento de Avis, Lisboa, Portugal

Finally, looking for Nationaal Archief? They’ve gone on vacation!

Gezin picknickt naast hun DAF / Dutch family having a picnic

Posted August 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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Bergen Public Library adds drawing-styled lithographs to its Ole Bull collection.

Ole Bull lithographic portrait with violin

Recent uploads from the National Maritime Museum include Victorian photographs of Greenwich’s Trafalgar Street.

Unloading frozen meat from the ‘Clan MacDougall’

Now appearing at the Powerhouse Museum, the Regent and St James Theatres!

Auditorium of St James Theatre, Sydney, 1930-1939

From the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, a world’s fair (or two), the Alfama, and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisboa, Portugal

The focus in Upper Arlington turns to the year 1919.

1684 Cambridge Boulevard in 1919

Posted July 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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A few from June and early July!

Montreal’s Musée McCord has uploaded new-to-the-Commons photographs of the city in earlier times, including some by William Notman.

Gates to McGill University, McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, 1869

From the Library of Virginia, a new set of photographs of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 45, in the First World War.

Dental clinic

The University of Washington’s UW Digital Collections on Flickr now include much more summer. Bring your bathing suit!

Swim team, University of Washington, 1921

The U.S. National Archives celebrated Independence Day Flickr-style.

Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Girl Scouts Drum and Bugle Corp. participate in the 4th of July parade.

New uploads from the National Library of Wales include these unidentified golfers.

Two lady golfers, one holding the Llandrindod Wells Open Challenge Bowl

The Smithsonian Institution brings us 25 science portraits, some of which just might make you want to go back to school to become a scientist too.

Fremont Davis (1915-1977)

Posted July 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian had new sets of civic architecture and of the colourful Festa dos Tabuleiros in Tomar.

Festa dos Tabuleiros, Tomar, Portugal

The Library of Congress adds Italy to its travel photochroms.

[The Lodge of the Lancers, Florence, Italy]

From Texas State Archives, maps and drawings of Palmetto State Park. Looking for incredible detail? Check the “original” size of these scans!

Palmetto State Park – SP29_001

New Commons institution Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County is always growing its joint Flickr collection! If you’re from New Hampshire, you’ll want to make this a regular stop.

J.M. Parker Store in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

Bergen Public Library expands its Ole Bull collection on Flickr.

C.A. Erichsen: Ole Bull’s grave

The Swedish National Heritage Board takes us back to Sweden.

Malmö, Skåne, Sweden

Upper Arlington Archives‘ recent uploads include this photograph, with background about Leatherlips (d. 1810) and a 1918 magazine feature about him.

Leatherlips Monument, 1918

The Center for Jewish History, NYC showcases everyday life, from worship to play.

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among “Dragon’s Teeth”, circa 1945

Posted June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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UW Digital Collections is heading on holiday, with its Gas Food Lodging set.

Interior passenger seating area of a Boeing 247 airplane, ca. 1933

The UK National Archives have uploaded a set of photographs by John Dixon-Scott. Taken in the 1920s, these photographs focus on the soon-to-change ruran and urban British environment.

Hop Picking

The Library of Congress’s most rexent Bain Friday uploads, of news photographs from the 1910s, cover boxing, Christmas, suffragettes, and an assortment of portraits of notable people.

N.Y.C. lodging house – some babies

Upper Arlington History continues to focus on images from the year 1918. We’d love to see what some of these homes look like today!

2011 Devon Road in 1918

From the Oregon State University Archives, a set of lantern slides of Palestine and Syria.

Russian Pilgrims Returning From the Jordon

The Field Museum has Georgia alligators!

Large Lake Miccosuckee American alligator

From the Brooklyn Museum, stunning arches in Italian cathedrals.

Cathedral, Pisa, Italy, 1895

Meanwhile, it’s a modern world in Portugal with the Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Cine-Teatro Joaquim de Almeida, Montijo, Portugal

The Swedish National Heritage Board’s recent cityscapes include some of Strängnäs after the 1871 fire.

Strängnäs, Södermanland, Sweden

SMU Central University Libraries have more photographs from 19th-century and early-20th-century Mexico.

Armed American Company employees and Arizona Rangers guard Company store during miners’ strike, 1906, Cananea, Mexico

Posted June 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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.

Posted June 4th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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.