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Recent Uploads to the Commons

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A few highlights of recent uploads to the Commons, with more to come in the next few days …

From the U.S. National Archives, posters and photographs from the home front during World War II — and an early photograph of Dwight Eisenhower.
Saturday’s a Holiday for Most of the Nation’s Small Fry, but to These Youngsters of Roanoke, Va. It’s Fat-Collection Day. ca. 10/1942
While we’ve been quiet, the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian has been uploading dozens of images from the sketchbooks of João Cristino da Silva.
Álbum de Desenhos, Portugal
From the London School of Economics Library, early sports teams aplenty and some delicious dinners.
First LSE Annual Dinner, 19th February 1898 at Restaurant Frascati, Oxford Street
The Brooklyn Musuem has added a wealth of new photos to its Italian architecture collection … And meet the new interim membership manager!
St. Mark’s, Venice, Italy, 1895.
Drama in the skies from the Bergen Public Library!
Graf Zeppelin over Bergen
Recent uploads from New York’s Center for Jewish History include advertising material, paintings, and photographs of objects in member museum collections.
Torah shield
Missed Florida laughing? It’s still in the State Library and Archives of Florida stream, waiting for you to take a break and laugh!
Governor Chiles and his dog: Tallahassee, Florida

Posted May 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The National Library of Wales adds more to its Geoff Charles collection, including from a 1959 election and illegal Welsh broadcasting.
Plaid Cymru broadcasting “Radio Wales” illegally for the first time in North Wales
George Eastman House has uploaded photographs by
Timothy Sullivan, Eadweard J. Muybridge, William Henry Jackson, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Julia Margaret Cameron — a treasure trove of photographic history in miniature, including a photograph of the execution of the Lincoln conspirators (Flickr login required).
Lace (William Henry Fox Talbot, c. 1845)
Nationaal Archief’s set of photographs from the 1945 liberation of Holland stirs the heart of this daughter-in-law and granddaughter of men who participated in that liberation, though it is not an easy set to look through.
Allied planes over Holland
The Field Museum has uploaded a large set of photographs from botany expeditions to Peru.
Family at Piedra Grande
The Brooklyn Museum heads to Pisa, Italy, to visit cathedrals.
Cathedral, Pisa, Italy, 1910.
Upper Arlington Archives has been posting matching pairs of photographs of houses (with street addresses) and the people who lived in them — start with a portrait, start with a house, or just wend your way through the photostream in pairs.
1972 Tremont Road
The Bergen Public Library is off to the fair—in 1928.
The Hansa bottle
The Swedish National Heritage Board has been wandering through Central Europe.
Banya Bashi Mosque and minaret in Sofia, Bulgaria
The lights are on at night in the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian photostream.
Reclame luminoso, Lisboa, Portugal
Oregon State University Archives is exploring lakes and mountains.
Horseshoe Bend
The records keep falling at the State Library and Archives of Florida!
Mrs. Nannie Boaz poses with her catch of 40-pound sailfish in the boat: Daytona Beach, Florida
The Library of Congress’s 1910s Bain Collection grows, with Zeppelins, brides, and ball player. Plus there’s a new set introducing more of the LOC’s Prints & Photographs collection, including Ukiyo-e and WPA posters.
Fusion Tag Girls

Posted April 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

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The National Maritime Museum’s recent uploads take a mammalian turn: is there a kitten on this ship? The ship’s cats, HMS ‘Hawkins’
The Library of Congress’s Sneak Preview! set provides a jumping-off spot to several different aspects of the LOC’s redesigned Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, at its new address: www.loc.gov/pictures
For president, Abram Lincoln. For vice president, Hannibal Hamlin
The National Library of Wales’s additions to the Geoff Charles collection include fairs, carnivals, and Eistedfodds. (Can anyone identify this tuba player?)
National Eisteddfod of Wales 1956, Aberdare
The recent explorations of the Swedish National Heritage Board take us as far as Italy and Estonia.
Ruhnu Old Church St. Magdalene, island of Ruhnu, Estonia
The Brooklyn Museum adds to its photographs of Italian Cathedrals.
Altamura, Italy
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse focuses again on Cornusson – on what was “antique” already in 1908.
Cabane antique, Cornusson, septembre 1908
From the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, beautiful lines of Lisbon’s architecture.
Praça Francisco Sá Carneiro, Lisboa, Portugal
The Smithsonian’s Women in Science month comes to an end, leaving a rich collection of images in the Commons.
Gene Tunney (1897-1978) and science fair participants, September 24, 1940

Posted April 6th, 2010 | No Comments »

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LSE Library has added more staff portraits from the 1970s-90s to its Commons collection. Did you study at the London School of Economics? Find the staff, faculty, visitors, and fellow students you remember, and tell us about them! Donald Cameron Watt, c1980
Donald Cameron Watt, c1980
Oregon State University rushes into spring with rushing waters and steadfast stones. Waterfall at Hug Point
Waterfall at Hug Point
The Galt Museum & Archives have released a set from Lethbridge photographer William Fruet, “the school photographer,” most of whose photographs turn out to be not what he was known for.
A discussion at the Ladies and Escorts entrance of the York Hotel
Do you remember that Science Fair, and Science Talent Search? The Smithsonian does! And don’t miss what’s new in the Women in Science set. Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956
Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956
Our tour of Lisbon continues, as the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian takes us to the Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira. And how will we get there? By train! Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira, Lisboa, Portugal
Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira, Lisboa, Portugal
The Powerhouse Museum introduces the Bob Lucas Archive, illustrating “the donor’s life and career in cinema exhibition from the mid 1920s to the late 1980s and offer a highly detailed and personal insight into the activities of a chief technical officer of a premier cinema chain.” R.J. (Bob) Lucas and unidentified woman looking at a Centrex projector, 1940 - 1949
R.J. (Bob) Lucas and unidentified woman looking at a Centrex projector, 1940-1949
There’s more regional “colour” from the National Library of Wales‘ Geoff Charles collection …
Double wedding at Llanrhaeadr – Agnes Della Morris to Mr D Noseworthy and Joan Brown to Mr F Telling
… and more fishy stories from the State Library and Archives of Florida.
Debbie Waterman and Peggy Stephens happily display their tripletail catch off Sanibel Island: Lee County, Florida
The Swedish National Heritage Board travels to Brittany – it thinks. Can you help?
Building in unidentified town, France
The Brooklyn Museumis back overseas, in Italian Cathedrals.
Cathedral, Conversano, Italy.
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain upload has baseball, a bull, and … fusion floats?
Fusion Floats

And of course, don’t miss the most recent Commons institution: The National Archives UK!

Posted March 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

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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

Posted March 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

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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 Wales‘ additions 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

Posted February 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

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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

Posted February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

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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)

Posted February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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

Posted February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »

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