Posts Tagged ‘Bergen Public Library’

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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)

[Edvard Grieg with hat and coat]

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons
[Edvard Grieg with hat and coat]

creator: E. Djupdræt
[Edvard Grieg with hat and coat], April 1907
Bergen Public Library

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Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News, Recent Uploads
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

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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]

New to the Commons: Bergen Public Library, Norway

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News

A warm midwinter welcome to the Commons to Norway’s second biggest public library, the Bergen Public Library. The Bergen Public Library’s music-related archives form the core of its first uploads to the Commons on Flickr, featuring composer Edvard Grieg, violinist Ole Bull — and their friends and family:

The Bergen Music fest, group picture with Edvard Grieg

The Bergen Music fest, group picture with Edvard Grieg