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The National Maritime Museum’s recent uploads take a mammalian turn: is there a kitten on this ship?

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

Oregon State University rushes into spring with rushing waters and steadfast stones.

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

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

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

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 »

Happy birthday, Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955)

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Calouste Gulbenkian (Wikimedia Commons)

Who?

That’s what I’ve been saying when I saw the name of the Portuguese member of the Commons, Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Calouste Gulbenkian doesn’t sound like a Portuguese name, for starters.

But today that same name turned up in the birthday rolls at Wikipedia. So today is a good day to learn how a Turkish-born British Armenian millionaire’s collection of art landed in Lisbon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calouste_Gulbenkian

Posted March 24th, 2010 | No Comments »

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George Eastman House is back, with 126 daguerreotypes from the Donald Weber Collection.

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

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

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Posted March 9th, 2010 | Comments are closed

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 “V-shaped” for victory potato

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian takes us underground in Lisbon – into the Metropolitano.

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

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

From the Swedish National Heritage Board, we present Stockholm’s Villa Bonnier, in autochromes.

Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden

And the Bergen Public Library presents … the theater!

The old theatre hall

Posted February 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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

Posted January 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

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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]

Posted January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »

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From Nationaal Archief, a set of remarkable — and often entertaining — inventions. I rather like the electrically heated jacket, myself.

Amfibiefiets / Amphibious bicycle

The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its Swedish scenes and ancient monuments sets.

Rune stone, Jursta, Södermanland, Sweden

The Brooklyn Museum has uploaded hundreds of photographs of Italian churches — a real treasure for the architectural historian! You can help map them using Suggestify, from any photo page.

S. Frediano, Lucca, Italy, 1895

The Smithsonian Institution add to its People and the Post set.

Unidentified rural letter carrier in his cold weather gear

In case you missed it over the holidays, here’s The twelve days of Christmas, from the State Library of Queensland, Australian

Two turtle doves (two turtles)

The Library of Congress ended the year with a fresh upload of illustrated newspaper covers.

Colonel Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill

There are more aircraft photos and publicly produced short films from the State Library of Florida. Each film clip links to a full-length version of the film in the Florida archives.

Pilot Bill Lindley with his airplane

The Oregon State University Archives have fallen for waterfalls

Dry falls near Coulee City

The photostream of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiancarving and wall art.

Igreja Paroquial de Matosinhos, Portugal

Posted January 5th, 2010 | No Comments »

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The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 58 prints — the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s entire collection — by Washington DC painter Gene Davis (1920-85)

Untitled, n.d.

You might not thing “sports” when you think “London School of Economics”, but these new LSE Library archival uploads will change that.

LSE Sports Day, Malden Sports Ground, c1920s

More in the LIGC ~ NLW collection of early photographs in their cases and frames

Man in bowler hat photographed in front of a carriage

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian celebrates cycling in Portugal

Prova de Ciclismo, Portugal

The National Maritime Museum is very maritime indeed, with a series of Alan Villiers’ photographs of the Parma and its crew

One of the crew using a sailmaker’s palm

The State Library of Queensland, Australia is wrapping for Christmas!

Red Cross workers packing Christmas presents for the Fighting Forces during World War II,

1942

The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its sets of churches and antiquities

Viken Church, Skåne, Sweden

The Library of Congress’s December 11 Bain Collection uploads include New York City schoolchildren, athletes, and the funeral of Timothy D. Sullivan