Here’s the video presentation of the talk that Deborah Wythe, head of the Brooklyn Museum Digital Collections and Services, gave at their 1stfans meetup, on the same evening as the Common Ground community-curated event.

She discusses Brooklyn’s first curator, William Henry Goodyear, and the Paris Exposition of 1900. This a terrific talk about lantern slides, equipment, digitization, colorization and so much more. The insight into Brooklyn in the late 1800s/early 1900s is fantastic. It’s less than 10 minutes long, and worth the time to watch.

443 images made up the slideshow from the fantastic inaugural community-curated event, Common Ground; users voted for their favorites images from each of the (then) 27 Commons’ institutions.

Indicommons’ blog editor Stephanie Fysh exclaims,

The George Eastman House event was small but well-fed (Rochester has the best sandwich place *EVER*) and intimate in a good way. Loved meeting *so many* of the people who make GEH work!

Media Coverage

• Projecting a Northwest Image – Corvallis Gazette-Times on the Oregon State University event
• Projections of the Past – ABC Sydney on the Powerhouse Museum event.
• Common Ground i St Karin – helagotland.se on the Swedish National Heritage Board event.
• Promo piece from Effie Kapsalis of the Smithsonian Institution (thanks, Effie!).
• Promo piece from the Collections Australia Network.

Photographs from various Common Ground events:

We had terrible weather so we relocated to the courtyard cafe but the meetup was great. – Paula Bray, Powerhouse Museum.

Getting ready for Common Ground

But that didn’t stop people from having a good time with their cupcakes! Great night, good to meet up with fellow minded photographers. – Sutto 007

Cupcakes

Common Ground: thank you Flickr community – a blog post by Paula Bray of the Powerhouse Museum.

Commons babycakes

Flickr’s Dan Bogan showed up for their event – Nom Nom Nom!

Listening

Oregon State University Archives has a few sets of photos up about the event, including many pink and blue ball sightings!

Dot head Doug next to the dots…

A huge shout-out to Ryan Donahue of George Eastman House for developing the voting application and creating the Powerpoint slideshow presentation for the event! Congratulations to all the institutions who hosted the first global community-curated Commons event and to all the supporters.

You can view the photographs selected for Common Grounds right here on our blog at the Common Ground 2009 page. You can also view the show directly on Flickr in full screen here.

Photos and videos from arkland_swe, Powerhouse Museum, sutto 007, Paul Hagon, waferbaby, Brooklyn Museum and the Oregon State University Archives.

Carl Curman
St. Karin Church ruin, Visby, Gotland, Sweden, 1890s
Swedish National Heritage Board: 20010329001:Cc000385

Are you a Commons fan living in Sweden? Join the Swedish National Heritage Board to celebrate The Commons at their Common Ground event in Visby on the Baltic Sea on Saturday Night!

in Visby, Gotland Municipality, Sweden :

Ch. Chusseau-Flaviens
Portugal Corrida, ca. 1900-1919
George Eastman House: [ID number]

Are you a Commons fan living in upstate New York? Join George Eastman House to celebrate The Commons at their Common Ground event in Rochester this Friday!

in Rochester, NY:

John Fletcher Ford
Group with R. C. Lieu, 1901
Oregon State University Archives: WilliamsG_Ford34

Are you a Commons fan living in Oregon? Join the Oregon State University Archives to celebrate The Commons at their Common Ground event in Corvalis, Oregon this Friday!

in Corvallis, Oregon:

Brooklyn Museum

New York Public Library

Are you a Commons fan living in New York? Join the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library to celebrate The Commons at their Common Ground event in Brooklyn this weekend, part of the Target First Saturdays series.

in Brooklyn, NY:

New York Tribune, Nov. 24, 1907, from the Illustrated Newspaper Supplements collection

The Library of Commons’s Michelle tells us that the LOC will be featuring the Commons at BookFest on Saturday, September 26 in Washington DC on the National Mall:

At our Library of Congress Pavilion (one of several festival pavilions), members of the Flickr team from Prints and Photographs Division and Serials Divisions (the folks behind the Chronicling America newspaper images) will be there to show and talk about the photos and historic newpapers in our Flickr account/Commons.

You can get more info in Michelle’s group announcement, and check the BookFest webpage as well!

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Asking for Gary Cooper’s autograph, 16 November 1943
State Library of Queensland, Australia: picqld-citrix10–2005-02-01-13-28

The State Library of Queensland, Australia invites you to be a special guest for their screening of Common Ground in Brisbane, Australia. The event in Brisbane will consist of a large projection onto the screen in the State Library’s stunning Queensland Terrace using a slideshow of content from the Commons on Flickr accounts that is curated by its community of users – making the Flickr Commons go ‘live’ through a connected slideshow. This special event will include images from Picture Queensland – the State Library of Queensland’s image library.

Light refreshments will be served.

When 6pm, Fri 2 Oct
Where Queensland Terrace, level 2
RSVP to heritage [at] slq.qld.edu.au (acceptances only by Mon 28 Sep)

Are you a Commons fan living in Australia? You’ll have to pick which Commons celebration you want to attend – or travel to go to more!

in Sydney:

in Brisbane:

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Don’t forget your camera!

[updated to reflect new information]

Are you a Commons fan living in Florida? Join the State Archives to celebrate the Commons at one of two (yes, two!) events:

in Safety Harbor:

in Tallahassee:

Don’t forget your camera! Event photos are welcome in the Flickr Commons group.