From a Flickr Gallery curated by david_cory, we bring you … Oddities from the Commons!

Ed E. Ford, comedian, at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, ca. 1914 / photographer unknown

State Library of New South Wales

Library Mummers Play, 1980

Library Mummers Play, 1980

Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (or, as David says, “Disturbing on many levels”)

Library of Congress

Hunter with 3 Foot Grasshopper

Galt Museum & Archives

Sea serpent visitors

Nantucket Historical Association

Check out the rest of David’s gallery for more Oddities from the Commons!

Flickr released a new feature this week called galleries.

Galleries - a new Flickr feature

The Flickr Blog explains,

For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place around a theme, an idea or just because.

Now any Flickr user can create an Across the Commons series, annotated, containing photos from the Commons centered around any theme that moves them! Here’s a sprinkling of Commons Galleries we’ve noticed:

Before Kodachrome, a gallery curated by Lú_, investigates the early colour photographic processes in the Commons collections on Flickr.

Before Kodachrome

Yours truly is fascinated by Yosemite National Park and tragedies. In this gallery, I put together Carleton E. Watkin’s historic photos with modern day images of the same scenes. Watkins lost most of his photographic legacy in the Great Fire of ‘06 in San Francisco… we’re fortunate that his work is available in The Commons.

Yosemite Then and Now

The Branch Office is a fun and eclectic mix of photos from both The Commons and from other Flickr users, curated by pennylrichardsca. Enjoy the beauty of light filtering down through the leaves.

The Branch Office

striatic re-creates a fun Across the Commons first posted to this blog. Just Plane Trouble is a fun and insightful look at aeronautic fails.

Just Plane Trouble

Delivering the Mail — the Commons way is a great curation from Brenda Anderson, in fact, the first Across the Commons that our group ran.

Delivering the Mail – the Commons way

What galleries will you create? Drop by our thread in the Flickr Commons group and show us your stuff! We’d love to feature your galleries on this blog.