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Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
George Eastman House is back, with 126 daguerreotypes from the Donald Weber Collection. Portrait of two men
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

Posted March 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

Sackville & O’Connell, Dublin, then and now

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Then and Now
[Sackville Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)
1890s: Library of Congress		 Sackville Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland
2010: shammael
THEN NOW

Find many more in the Flickr Commons group Then & Now topic for the Library of Congress’s new views-of-Ireland photochrom upload – and watch the Flickr blog for more! In Ireland today and feel like going out to shoot your own, like shammael did? We’d love to see them!

Posted March 13th, 2010 | No Comments »

100 Years Ago Today: New Wing of the Met

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Today in the Commons
New wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be opened tomorrow (LOC)

New-York tribune, March 13, 1910
New wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be opened tomorrow
Library of Congress: http://lccn.loc.gov/2007618519

Posted March 13th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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
London Lighterman

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Posted March 9th, 2010 | Comments are closed

Women of the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Across The Commons

The Commons provides a wealth of photos of the half of the world being celebrated today, International Women’s Day — every one of them uncommon and important in her own way.

Wilhelmina Drucker, women’s rights pioneer, is portrayed by Truus Claes on the occasion of her seventieth birthday (1917).
Nationaal Archief
Gwyneth Richards, the only girl in the YFC taking part in sheep shearing competitions in Wales (1944).
National Library of Wales
Eileen Power, Professor of Economic History from 1931 to 1940, London School of Economics (1930s).
LSE Library
Co-eds with hoes: The county experimental hop yard recruited Oregon State College coeds for a quick job of hoeing (1944).
Oregon State University Archives
An unnamed 14-year-old striker, actress and political activist Fola La Follette, and prostitute-turned reformer Rose Livingston (1913).
Library of Congress
Rita Trudget (or Trudgett), wicket keeper, in Moore Park, Sydney, Australia (1930s).
State Library of New South Wales
Paramaribo market scene
Field Museum Library
U.S. National Archives

U.S. National Archives		 Woman carrying bundle on head, Natchez, Mississippi, August ...
New York Public Library

Posted March 8th, 2010 | 9 Comments »

Whales across the Commons

Posted by zyrcster in Across The Commons

This one’s for you, Shelley!

The Nancy Grey with a whale, Norway. [Whaling scenes at Skaaro. The
Library of Congress
A whale in Sydney Harbour. Whale, Sydney Harbour, 1930's / Sam Hood
State Library of New South Wales
Model of a whale. Louisiana Purchase Exposition - SI Exhibit
Smithsonian Institution
Posing on whale bones. Posing on whale bones: Saint George Island, Florida
State Library and Archives of Florida
Stranded blackfish whales. Stranded blackfish whales underneath Te Aro reclamation trestling at the foot of Taranaki Street, Wellington, between 1882-1883
National Library of New Zealand
Whaling / Walvisvaart Whaling / Walvisvaart
Nationaal Archief
A sperm whale jawbone. Captain George A.Grant
Nantucket Historical Association
A large whale skeleton. West Court with large whale skeleton
Field Museum
Whale-back at pier. World's Columbian Exposition: Whale-back, Chicago, United States, 1893.
Brooklyn Museum

Posted March 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Wales across the Commons

Posted by Penny in Across The Commons

March 1st is observed as St. David’s Day, a national holiday in Wales. To mark the occasion, some images of the Welsh from across the Commons …

A photochrom image of two knitting and spinning Welshwomen, 1890s, in traditional costumes Welsh women knitting and spinning
[Library of Congress]
Mr. Roberts, a Welsh harpist, c. 1875 man seated at a harp
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales
A family of Welsh immigrants to Patagonia, Argentina, 1924; this photo was taken as part of the Captain Marshall Field Expedition for Vertebrate Paleontology (1922-1925) family seated in front of a house
Field Museum Library
Fisherman’s family outside cottage, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, c.1890 (be sure to see the then-and-now posted in the comments on this one) alley and cottage
National Maritime Museum
Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) artist Frank Brangwyn
Smithsonian Institution

Posted March 1st, 2010 | No Comments »

100 Years Ago Today: “High prices for food can scarcely be blamed upon the original source of supply”

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Today in the Commons

New-York tribune
High prices for food can scarcely be blamed upon the original source of supply, February 27, 2010
Library of Congress: Chronicling America (Library of Congress) (DLC) – lccn.loc.gov/2007618519

Posted February 27th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
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

Posted February 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Personal Connections: J.B. Joel

Posted by Penny in Personal Connections

After a lot of discussion had already taken place speculating on the identity of the man in this portrait in the Library of Congress’s Bain Collection, the first cousin (3x removed) of J.B. Joel posted a family history:

J.B. Joel

J.B. Joel, [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

Do you have a personal connection to a Commons photo? Noticed someone else’s in your Commons browsing? Let us know, in the Flickr Commons group!

Posted February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »

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