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!

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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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

Field Museum Library

U.S. National Archives

U.S. National Archives

New York Public Library

Mary Dillwyn
Harry and Amy Dillwyn (children of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn), 1853
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales: viv00060 (pb02376/35)

World Book Day is a celebration of reading in the UK and Ireland that’s “trended” worldwide at times on Twitter today. Seems we want World Book Day to really encompass the world!

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

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Mr. Roberts, a Welsh harpist, c. 1875

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)

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)

National Maritime Museum

Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)

Smithsonian Institution

Winter seems to be a bit “off” in the Northern Hemisphere this year — too little snow in the British Columbia mountains, too much snow in Oklahoma, and much too cold in the UK. But winter in the Commons? It’s always wonderful! See more winter and snow in the Commons.

Carol and Bobbie Ann’s February 1953 snowman, in Richmond, Virginia. (Where are Carol and Bobbie Ann today?)

The Library of Virginia

A snowman on the *other* side of the “pond”, in Wales.

LlGC ~ NLW

It’s a much colder winter in Antarctica – or it certainly was in the 1910s.

State Library of New South Wales

The city of Montreal may be saving on snow-clearing costs this year, but this is what we expect a Montreal winter to look like, even 120 years later.

Musée McCord Museum

Snow-clearing out west — the heavy-duty way.

Galt Museum & Archives

Where little snow fell, in London, there was work for the street sweeper.

George Eastman House

It may be work to clear later, but when the snow makes the city nearly disappear into white, that work is more than repaid by beauty.

Library of Congress

Had enough snow? Maybe it’s time for a visit to Florida …

State Library and Archives of Florida