Archive for the ‘Recent Uploads’ Category

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Recent Uploads to the Commons: New Views

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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.
Mountaineering in the vicinity of Index, Washington, ca. 1900
Also in the western U.S., Oregon State University Archives has added to its Flickr sets from the Gerald W. Williams Collection.
Young campers at Neah-Kah-Nie Beach, near Nahalem, Oregon
Across the Pacific, the Powerhouse Museum has added to its Tom Lennon Photographic Collection on Flickr.
Debutantes presented to Lady Julius at Grecian Ball
Back on the U.S. east coast, the Center for Jewish History celebrates basketball.
Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball
And across the Atlantic, the Bibliothèque de Toulouse features Cornusson …
Le sol, Cornusson
… the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian brings us processions in Portugal (where exactly remains unidentified) …
Procissão, Portugal
… and it’s Eisteddfod season at the National Library of Wales!
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd, Caerdydd 1965

Posted June 1st, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
Nationaal Archief has posted a set called Max Havelaar 150 jaar, marking the anniversary of the publication of this influential novel about the colonial coffee trade and conditions in the Dutch colonies.
Sorteren van tabaksbladeren in een fermenteerschuur
Recent uploads by the State Library of Queensland, Australia include a set focusing on the Trackson family. Are they yours?
Phil Trackson and Cyril Lambeth camping at Redcliffe
Recent photographs added by the National Maritime Museum include some from the HMS Penguin when it was stationed in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Maori children onboard HMS Penguin’
The Texas State Archives have added maps and elevations of Goose Island State Park.
Mighty Oak Development – SP.37.10
From SMU Central University Libraries, a tour along the 35th parallel with Alexander Gardner, and volcanic eruptions.
Mt. Pelee: Statue of St Mary.
From the Field Museum, Huron Smith’s 1910-11 expedition in Oregon. Smith specialized in dendrology, the study of woddy plants.
Man standing against a Douglas Spruce tree
Bain Collection uploads from the Libary of Congress this month have included photographs from a White House wedding, the 1913 Army-Navy football game, a state visit to Rio de Janeiro, and a 1910 Suffrage rally.
Maria Montessori

Posted May 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »