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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) hand holding a small rodent
Nationaal Archief
Library Appeal 1973 .
LSE Library
Women Bowling
George Eastman House
Moses Williams playing the diddley bow: Waverly, Florida hand holding bottle, playing strings
State Library and Archives of Florida
Untitled (from the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Native Basketry program) hands weaving with colorful fiber
Smithsonian Institution

Posted May 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Strandfotograaf / Beach Photographer

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons
Strandfotograaf / Beach Photographer

Strandfotograaf / Beach Photographer
Nationaal Archief: SFA001019971

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Posted April 3rd, 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
London Lighterman

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Posted March 9th, 2010 | Comments are closed

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 »

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 »

Welcome to the Year of the Tiger

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Best of The Commons

Guò nián hǎo!

Jonge tijgers in Artis, [Young tigers in the zoo], August 17, 1964
Nationaal Archief: 916-7779

Posted February 15th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

As well as the Ansel Adams set belonging to new Commons member the U.S. National Archives, this week’s highlights include:

The Swedish National Heritage Board has uploaded more of Carl Curman’s honeymoon photos, including another unidentified site in Spain.
Unidentified town, Spain
The Field Museum brings us new (to the Commons) photographs from British Guiana in the 1920s.
Two women with buckets seated at waterside
It’s fishing season at State Library and Archives of Florida – for big fish. Mr. John Hachmeister and Mrs. Earl Baum admiring a 1,200 lb manta ray caught by Forrest Walker
The Library of Congress’s Friday upload this week is a set of illustrated newspaper covers of 1910 – one hundred years ago.
How much can Gotham afford to give thirsty neighbors?
It’s winter in the Netherlands – time for winter sports at Nationaal Archief! Bobsleeën, skeleton / Bobsleigh, skeleton
LIGC ~ NLW brings us portraits and people outdoors from Wales, including a dog that’s far too happy for the shutter speed of the camera.
Girl with a dog, Llansanffraid [Glynceiriog?]
The National Maritime Museum has added videos to the Commons for the first time from its film archive, from almost the whole of the 20th century.
Before the Mast (date unknown)
The State Library of Queensland, Australia has a set of colourful postcards of Queensland.
Band Rotunda in Queen’s Park, Maryborough, ca. 1930

Posted February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
From Nationaal Archief, a set of remarkable — and often entertaining — inventions. I rather like the electrically heated jacket, myself. Amfibiefiets / Amphibious bicycle
The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its Swedish scenes and ancient monuments sets.
Rune stone, Jursta, Södermanland, Sweden
The Brooklyn Museum has uploaded hundreds of photographs of Italian churches — a real treasure for the architectural historian! You can help map them using Suggestify, from any photo page.
S. Frediano, Lucca, Italy, 1895
The Smithsonian Institution add to its People and the Post set.
Unidentified rural letter carrier in his cold weather gear
In case you missed it over the holidays, here’s The twelve days of Christmas, from the State Library of Queensland, Australian
Two turtle doves (two turtles)
The Library of Congress ended the year with a fresh upload of illustrated newspaper covers.
Colonel Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill
There are more aircraft photos and publicly produced short films from the State Library of Florida. Each film clip links to a full-length version of the film in the Florida archives.
Pilot Bill Lindley with his airplane
The Oregon State University Archives have fallen for waterfalls
Dry falls near Coulee City
The photostream of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiancarving and wall art.
Igreja Paroquial de Matosinhos, Portugal

Posted January 5th, 2010 | No Comments »

Hoed met satijnen bloemen en struisvogelveren / Hat with satin flowers and ostrich feathers

Posted by Nina in Best of The Commons
Hoed met satijnen bloemen en struisvogelveren / Hat with satin flowers and ostrich feathers

creator:Spaarnestad Photo
Hoed met satijnen bloemen en struisvogelveren / Hat with satin flowers and ostrich feathers, 1969
Nationaal Archief: SFA002009990

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Posted January 2nd, 2010 | Comments are closed

Recent Uploads to the Commons – Autumn 2009, round 2

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads
New this autumn (spring in the south of the world) from the National Maritime Museum: Many images of individual ships, and some as well of Naval College staff and of buildings in the area of London ports, with a scattering of other related photographs — all of it being aspects of the life of the Port of London and the River Thames.
Men gathered around a beacon in thick smog (1920s)
From the State Library of New South Wales, there are new Sam Hood photographs from places to eat and drink, of more Art Deco architecture and design, and of shops on all scales. There’s also plenty of beach life — a tease to us northerners whose winter is beginning!
Hotel Wellington bar, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
The National Library of New Zealand’s recent uploads have celebrated Auckland at night in photographs by William Archer Price, have taken us to Antarctica with Herbert George Ponting , and have looked at the architecture of Wellington.
Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912
From the New York Public Library comes a generous celebration of baseball in New York and Philadelphia, a collection of colorful Hallowe’en postcards, and a set of historical images of people playing musical instruments .
[Banjo players.]
The State Library of Queensland marked the Australian-born Movember with a remarkable set of Moustaches — and marked the month as well with a set of often deeply moving photographs from the First World War, one of which marked Armistice Day on this blog.
W. Elliot (undated)
The Australian War Memorial marked Armistice Day with a welcome home kiss of many years ago.
A welcome home kiss, 1919
And Nationaal Archief is, as so often, entertaining as well as historically interesting, with an upload of autumn and winter fashion, just in time for the season (some years ago!). Aviation buffs will enjoy the set of “90 Years of Civil Aviation“.
Dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar showing one of his designs

Posted December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

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