indicommons » Bibliothèque de Toulouse http://www.indicommons.org Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:00:39 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7992 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
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/feed/ 0 The Commons through Green-Colored Glasses http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/17/the-commons-through-green-colored-glasses/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/17/the-commons-through-green-colored-glasses/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:57 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7866 With Paul Hagon’s new tool for searching the Commons by color, you can see the Commons in green not just for St. Patrick’s Day but any time … and in orange, violet, or whatever color suits your mood or needs. Paul’s Commons-by-color tool is a work in progress, but one that users are already loving.

Cowgirl
George Eastman House		 Paris Exposition: Chateau of Water and Palace of Electricity, aerial view, Paris, France, 1900
Brooklyn Museum
Ruisseau dans les jardins de Monte-Carlo
Bibliothèque de Toulouse		 West Point cadet
George Eastman House
Interested in also playing at developing Commons tools, or already have one? We’d love to talk to you!
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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

The State Library of Queensland, Australia presents The Queenslander weekly newspaper
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 5 March 1936
The National Library of Wales‘ recent uploads include the happiest women in Wales!
Newtown Ladies’ Bowling Team beat Welshpool ladies at Welshpool
The LSE Library celebrates … its librarians! (and the 1980s)
Archives Staff , Special Reading Room, 1991
Recent uploads from the State Library and Archives of Florida include a bit of metaphotography! Rodeo photographer Ralph Doubleday and his camera: Lakeland, Florida
Rodeo photographer Ralph Doubleday and his camera: Lakeland, Florida
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian heads this month to the Praça dos Restauradores and Monte Claros, Lisbon … Praça dos Restauradores, Lisboa, Portugal
Praça dos Restauradores, Lisboa, Portugal
… while the Bibliothèque du Toulouse is in Cornusson.
Madame Cambe, Cornusson, 1884
The Oregon State University Archives continue their infrastructure trend, with dams and mills.
Mill at Orenco, Oregon
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]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/09/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-14/feed/ 0 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-12/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-12/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:01:33 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7666 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
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-12/feed/ 0 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/09/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-11/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/09/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-11/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:30:06 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7619 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)
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The Library of Congress’s Bain Collection Fridays include more baseball and also archery and football; Brooklyn children, New York playgrounds and East Side babies; and quite possibly the sexiest diving photo I’ve ever seen (go find it!). There are 51 more additions to the newspaper supplement collection, and more of those popular (and beautiful) autochrome travel photographs, this time of Holland. Capt. Storer, 1910-15
Capt. Storer, 1910-15
The Powerhouse Museum has a new set of beautiful sepia photographs of the Garden Palace from the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 (with “personal” connections for the Powerhouse Museum). There are also stereographic photographs from the mid-19th century by William Hetzer don’t miss the detailed historical information that accompanies this set. And in case you thought that Australia was all buildings and scenery, a recent upload of photographs of large groups of people, of all sorts.
Macquarie Place, Sydney, 1858-1860
The Brooklyn Museum has been gradually uploading images from the collections of curator/historian William Henry Goodyear, focusing on the architecture and art of Italy. So far these are in two sets: Palazzi, Villas and other Dwellings and Cloisters and Convents
Villa de Papa Giulio, Rome, Italy
New from the Smithsonian Institution: 27 images related to the postal service, including mail-censorship and wrecks on the way; new
color slides from the Archive of American Gardens; historical images from the Reverend James Osborne Arthur collection, of reservations in Nebraska and New Mexico in the 1910s; photographs from (and of) the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation; and more gorgeous views of outer space.
Oswald Smith family, September 1, 1914
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has added new images from Caylus, Tarn-et-Garoone, in its Trutat collection.
Porte ogivale, Caylus, 5 juin 1906
And the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian had added over 200 new images, ranging from museum exhibitions of fashion and art objects to scenic landscapes to historic events. Of particular note are images of the collections of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, the 1927 Semana dos Hospitais, and gatherings of artists.
Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, Lisboa, Portugal
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Castle and suspension bridge, Conway (i.e. Conwy), Wales, ca. 1890–ca. 1900 (more about the Conway bridge). [Castle and suspension bridge, Conway (i.e. Conwy), Wales]
Library of Congress
Suspension bridge, Niagara, ON, 1869, designed by John Roebling (before the Brooklyn Bridge), photographed by William Notman. Suspension bridge, Niagara, ON, 1869
Musée McCord Museum
Templand Bridge, Cumnock, Scotland, ca. 1890–ca. 1900. [Templand Bridge, Cumnock, Scotland] (LOC)
Library of Congress
The Brooklyn Bridge in 1905, printed in 1977.
George Eastman House
The Ness Road Bridge in Inverness, Scotland, between 1890 and 1900; the bridge was demolished in 1961. [Inverness from castle, Scotland] (LOC)
Library of Congress
The 14th-century Pont Valentré, Cahors, France, June 1902, photographed by Eugène Trutat. Pont Valentré, aval, Cahors, juin 1902
Bibliothèque de Toulouse
photographs selected by Nina; text by Stephanie
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The New York Public Library also dazzles us with color images of the Hudson River Valley; this set coincides with their new exhibition Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009.

Pssssst! They are geotagged!

 Bay and Narrows of Hudson, Peekskill, N. Y.
Mapping New York’s Shoreline: The Storied River
The National Library of Wales adds more sepia images of 19th-century Swansee. Mumbles
Early Swansea Photography
26 new images from the Smithsonian; rain, shine, or hail – that postman always brings the mail! Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada
People and the Post
Travel in style with more in-flight photos from the State Library and Archives of Florida. Aircraft fuselage of a New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line airplane
Florida Flights of Fancy
Travel to France to enjoy the scenery with the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Pssssst – they geotag, too!

 Porte ogivale, Bruniquel
Tarn-et-Garonne
They also have added to an interesting set on minerals. Faux polis, Eaux-Bonnes, 25 août 1898
Règne minéral
Cathedrals, steamers and runes are posted from the Swedish National Heritage Board. Steamer in the ice, Lysekil, Sweden
Carl Curman – Sweden
The State Library of Queensland, Australia, posts a shot from an unknown photographer of Margaret Lawrie; be sure to click through the photo to read her story. Margaret Elizabeth Lawrie, ca. 1945
Picture of the week
Yay! 53 new newspaper illustrations from the Library of Congress! A man is known by his pets, some people say
Illustrated Newspaper Supplements
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Mazarine says:

This is the way to get your groceries home.

 Queensland cyclist, R. James on a rear steering rotary tricycle, ca. 1884
State Library of Queensland, Australia

A proud cyclist.

 Laurie A. Perkins with a Penny-Farthing bicycle
State Library and Archives of Florida

Vacationing by bike.

 Carrière de Saint-Béat (Haute-Garonne)
Bibliothèque de Toulouse

A lovely way to see the countryside…

 Mlle X en vélo, Luchon
Bibliothèque de Toulouse

Ride your bike to the docks, sail away.

 Bicyclist on Adam's Slip
Nantucket Historical Association

Work on your form, kids.

 Peter Drobach [on bike] 12/5/12
Library of Congress

View the full gallery here to leave your comments!

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Beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, from the Estúdio Horácio Novais in the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’ collection.

Won’t you please help tag these phenomenal images in the language of your choice?

 Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisboa, Portugal
Lisboa: perspectivas gerais e parciais
They’ve also added some fun advertisements from yesteryear! Máquina de barbear Philishave, Portugal
Publicidade
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse, also needs your help tagging photos. Try the new photos they’ve added to this dandy set of transportation – on the road in France! Vue prise de la voie, Penne, octobre 1898
Sur la route (automobiles, charrettes, bicyclettes…)
Visit some stunning gardens courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution! These historic glass lantern slides of gardens dated from the 1920s and 1930s, considered a “golden era” for gardens in America’s history. [Morningside] [slide]: vaulted arbor in foreground with stairs leading up to gazebo
Archives of American Gardens
View 3 African expeditions in this marvelous set from The Field Museum Library. This is a must-see collection which includes some real prizes by the renowned Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Cheetah growling at camera
Africa Expeditions
The National Library of Wales presents some period sepia portraits from John Dillwyn Llewellyn and his family. A real treasure. John Dillwyn Llewelyn
Ffotograffiaeth Gynnar Abertawe / Early Swansea Photography
Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel and more are featured in the Library of Congress’s ode to America’s national pastime. Just in time for the pennant races. Those damn yankees, why can’t we beat ‘em? They also uploaded a slew of baseball photographs from the Bain News Service, too. Casey Stengel, full-length portrait, wearing sunglasses, while playing outfield for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Baseball Americana
The Powerhouse Museum also adds to two of their sets, images from Tom Lennon and Tyrell Collections. The big band era is in full swing here. Jim Coates dance band
Tom Lennon and Tyrell Photographic Collections
The State Library of New South Wales gets fancy with a pair of risque dancers! Parisian Moon Dancers in gold paint at the Palladium Theatre, Sydney, 28 September 1955 / Ern McQuillan
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The Oregon State University Archives gets credit for most utilitarian set name with these cool photos of people doin’ their thing. Photographs by Herman Theodore Bohlman. People setting up camp
People doing stuff in the Herman Bohlman Collection
Get your flight on with these historical images of Florida aviation from the State Library and Archives of Florida. Jess Dixon in his flying automobile
Florida Flights of Fancy
The State Library of Queensland, Australia, dishes up a feast of good harvests to celebrate their state’s 150th birthday. Dinner time! Woman with a basket of mandarins, 1920-1930
At our Table
See more ruins and ancient monuments, from the Swedish National Heritage Board. Runic inscription, Viby, Uppland, Sweden
Ancient monuments
You know the Galt Museum & Archives in Canada recently joined The Commons, eh? Check our this set of one of their curator’s favorites. Fun stuff – especially as Halloween draws near. Vauxhall Fair
Belinda’s Favourites
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