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Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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

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 »

Oddities across the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Across The Commons

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!

Posted February 19th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
The Smithsonian Institution highlights the work of expressionist-influenced artist William Johnson, in William H. Johnson’s World on Paper – relief prints and serigraphs
Jitterbugs (III)
The National Library of Wales has uploaded photographs by photojournalist Geoff Charles (1909-2002), who worked for newspapers in north and mid Wales until his retirement in 1975.
Collection of scrap aluminium in Welshpool by the Women’s Voluntary Service
This week the Powerhouse Museum is all about Don Harkness – “pioneer in the Australian automotive and aeronautical industries, racing driver and record breaker”.
Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of the “Bluebird”, with crowd, 1926 – 1936
The Florida Archives have begun adding photographs from the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, focused on doll-making.
Mary Billie and her daughter Claudia C. John holding handmade Seminole dolls
The Oregon State University Archives adds to the Commons a set of photographs and postcards of railroads and trains.
Loading logs at Clatskanie, Oregon
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse features the village of Cornusson.
Cornusson, juillet 1904
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain collection upload includes World Series photos from 1913, but also entomologist Jean Henri Fabre.
Jean Henri Fabre
New photos of Spain from the Swedish National Heritage Board include this one, unidentified when uploaded – but not anymore.
Granada, Spain
We have more faculty and staff portraits from the LSE Library, including photos from this century – not something you might think of when you think of the Commons!
Patrick Dunleavy lecturing, c1990s

Posted February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

President’s Day in the U.S.

Posted by zyrcster in Across The Commons
[Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing right] (LOC)

Berger, Anthony
Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing right, 1864 Feb. 9
Library of Congress: LC-B8175- 3-X
President Van Buren
Martin Van Buren		 G. Washington's teeth
George Washington’s teeth
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Deposits Letter into Highway Post Office Bus
Franklin D. Roosevelt		 Wilson and Taft at Inauguration
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt		 1993 Clinton Inauguration
George H.W. Bush
William J Clinton
Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., with Other Civil Rights Leaders in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC, 08/06/1965
Lyndon B. Johnson		 Fifth Archivist of the United States Dr. James B. Rhoads Shaking Hands with President Gerald Ford, June 14, 1976
Gerald Ford
Photograph of President Reagan and the Signing Ceremony for Martin Luther King Holiday Legislation, 11/02/1983 - 11/02/1983
Ronald Reagan		 Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House, 11/16/1949
Harry Truman

Florida Development Commission
President Kennedy at Democratic Fund-Raiser, 1962
State Library and Archives of Florida: V-71; DA034; S. 828
President Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand.General Ulysses S. Grant and Portion of Staff, General John A. Rawlins.Photograph of Presentation of the First Volumes of the "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy" at the White House, 1962Nixon Inaugural BallPhotograph of President George H. W. Bush Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner with Troops: 11/22/1990Bill Clinton, 2001T.R. in Jersey, 5/25/12 (LOC)W. Wilson, 11/16/12, 1/2 w. hat and overcoat (LOC)Taft, 11/16/12 (LOC)Halloween Visitors to the Oval Office. Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr. White House, Oval Office, 10/31/1963

Posted February 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
The Bergen Public Library’s uploads include a set from the 1906 royal visit to the city.
The King and Queen leaving after placing the foundation stone
It’s Advertising Week at the Powerhouse Museum — with 15 photos from the Rousel archive. “The archive is a significant record of the work of an important Sydney signwriting and graphic design studio” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Large wall advertising signs for The Hub Ltd
Don’t keep up with the Flickr blog? Then you might not know about the Smithsonian Institution’s Timothy O’Sullivan upload this week, of Western landscapes.
Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, below Fortification Rock, Arizona (Wheeler Survey)
The OSU Archives go urban, with a set of towns and buildings of Oregon
Commercial Street, Astoria, Oregon, covered in snow
The State Library of Florida branches out – to the flowers at the ends of the branches. (Note that this visitor is unnamed — do you know her?)
Visitor photographing a blood lily (Scadoxus multiflorus) at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida
The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection upload includes portraits of the last of Russian royalty.
Czarina and Czarewitsch
The Library of Wales strengthens its Commons collection of John Thomas’s portraits of Welsh people.
Business Bob, Llanrwst
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse focuses this week on Caylus, a village northwest of Toulouse.
Vieux pigeonnier, Caylus, 5 juin 1906
The LSE Library has added more formal portraits of its faculty and staff, with extracts about some from obituaries, magazine features, and elsewhere.
Walter Hughes, 1982
The Swedish National Heritage Board has more 19th-century photos from Spain in need of identification – and some already identified before you read this.
Ronda, Spain (formerly: Streetview in unidentified town, Spain)

Posted February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News, Recent Uploads
The Library of Congress has added to its Commons collections 22 photographs by the great landscape photographer of the American West Timothy O’Sullivan — and they’d like to know how you would like to see them focus future uploads along this line.
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

Posted January 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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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

Posted December 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
The Brooklyn Museum has increased its Italian architecture collection – keep checking these sets for more!
Scala Minelli, Venice, Italy
From the LSE Library, more London School of Economic visitors — and photos from the school radio station, which opened in 1999.

Judge Jules at Pulse FM, 12 December 2003

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Posted December 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons – Autumn 2009, round 3

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New this fall at the State Library and Archives of Florida: From Florida from orbit and hurricane video from 1928 and an interview about the assassination of President Kennedy to many photos of airplanes .
Passengers on a Pan Am Boeing 307
From the Oregon State University Archives, my favorite set name: People doing stuff in the Herman Bohlman Collection — okay, they’re really photos *from* the collection, of people doing stuff. But it’s a great title. Also from Oregon: photographs of Oregon dams and of salmon fishing.
Fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls
The Swedish National Heritage Board brings us new views of old churches, additions to its set of ancient monuments, winter scenes, portraits, and more in the Carl Curman collection.
Man with bike beside rune stone, Boberg, Östergötland, Sweden
From the LlGC ~ NLW, in Wales, we now have early sepia photographs of many kinds from Swansea and a set of photographs shown in their original cases and frames.
Mr & Mrs Oakley at the Hunt
The Galt Museum & Archives has added to the Commons more Alberta studio portraits and a set of photographs of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (in which my mother-in-law served) from the Second World War.
CWAC Celebrating VE-Day London 1945
The LSE Library follows on its Commons debut with many more photographs of faculty, staff, students, and visitors a the London School of Economics, including Tony Blair, Karl Popper, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
Madeline Albright, 2000

Posted December 5th, 2009 | No Comments »

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