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Hands Across the Commons

Posted by Penny in Across The Commons

Hands are, uh, handy subjects–everyone has some nearby, right? And they’re an interesting shape. Some photographs of the hand at work, at play, under study and under a rodent, from the Flickr Commons. (Or come visit the gallery “Hands across the Commons” for fourteen handfuls of the same.)

Olifantsspitsmuis in Artis. Oppasser houdt muisje op de hand (a.k.a., an elephant shrew)

Nationaal Archief

Library Appeal 1973

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LSE Library

Women Bowling

George Eastman House

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow: Waverly, Florida

State Library and Archives of Florida

Untitled (from the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Native Basketry program)

Smithsonian Institution

Posted May 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Elsie Betts, 1976

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons

Terry Swan
Elsie Betts, 1976
LSE Library: IMAGELIBRARY/1040

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Posted April 17th, 2010 | Comments are closed

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

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!

Posted March 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

How to feed a child when the mother has a cough and cold; don’t allow strangers to kiss or touch your child

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons

Printer: Mospoligraf
Publisher: Gosmedizdat
How to feed a child when the mother has a cough and cold; don’t allow strangers to kiss or touch your child,
1930
LSE Library: COLL MISC 0719/9

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Posted March 26th, 2010 | Comments are closed

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

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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 “V-shaped” for victory potato

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian takes us underground in Lisbon – into the Metropolitano.

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

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

From the Swedish National Heritage Board, we present Stockholm’s Villa Bonnier, in autochromes.

Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden

And the Bergen Public Library presents … the theater!

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

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

Martin Van Buren

George Washington’s teeth

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft

William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt

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

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, 1962

Photograph of President George H. W. Bush Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner with Troops: 11/22/1990

W. Wilson, 11/16/12, 1/2 w. hat and overcoat (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.