indicommons » Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 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 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/30/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-16/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/30/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-16/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00:46 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7957 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!

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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

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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
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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/2010/02/25/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-13/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/25/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-13/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:13 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7773 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
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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
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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]
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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
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/01/05/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-7/feed/ 0 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2009/12/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-6/ http://www.indicommons.org/2009/12/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-6/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:03:35 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7378 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
Sullivan funeral – Bowery
Even as the Shuttle program winds down, the State Library and Archives of Florida celebrates Florida’s aviation history
Miami-Dade Junior College student pilot training in a DC-3 at the school of aviation
And please do join the Galt Museum & Archives at a tea!
Southminster United Church Men’s Club Tea
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