A hearty welcome to the Jewish Women’s Archive! They join the Commons on Flickr with 3 fabulous sets depicting the history of American Jewish women in service, in World War II and in the greater Hartford, Connecticut community.

The most unique thing about the Jewish Women’s Archive is that they are a virtual archive!

The Jewish Women’s Archive is not a physical repository. Instead, we use our website (jwa.org) to provide access to a wide variety of resources, including many primary sources, which tell the stories of Jewish women in North America.

Now they can also harness the power of the Flickr Commons to provide such access. Hoorah!

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Helga Rome’s Passport
Jewish Women’s Archive

After Kristallnacht, my grandmother went to Brazil and then we sponsored her to come here. It was difficult at the beginning for me. School was difficult, language was hard. But we graduated at 16. My father had problems with the language. My grandmother was more educated then any of us. She went to boarding school – fluent in English and French.

A big welcome to the Commons to the Galt Museum & Archives!

From the city of Lethbridge in southwestern Alberta, where the Canadian prairie starts thinking about the mountains, the Galt Museum & Archives brings to Flickr’s Commons a wealth of regional industry, history, and people; a healthy dose of Canadian, including the precursors to the Mounties; a good sense of humour (with a u); and their own staff favourites. (If you go hunting, you’ll find hockey and beer, too, just in time for the new season!)

Check out the Galt Museum in the Commons, and before you know it you too will be “Alberta Bound.”

Unidentified Group Posing Near The Canadian Pacific Railway High Level Bridge, 1940

We welcome to the Commons the Getty Research Institute! The Getty brings to the Flickr Commons, to start, from “a Photo Study Collection comprised of approximately two million study photographs of art and architecture from antiquity through the 20th-century”, photographic postcards of Algiers in the early 20th century — postcards whose stamps tell of real journeys as well as those across time:

Casbah: Rue du Tombouctou (December 20, 1909)

Cymru am byth!

We warmly welcome The National Library of Wales to the Flickr Commons! Established in 1907 and now with over 800,000 photographs preserving the heritage and culture of Wales, they start their Commons adventure with 100 photographs from the P B Abery collection, photographs taken between 1890 and 1940 in Radnorshire, the border area of Wales and England.

We can’t say it better than they do, so to quote them …

As you’ll see the photos include the weird and wonderful – including turkeys blocking the road and a dog smoking a pipe!

P B Abery
Dog with a pipe in its mouth, 1940s
National Library of Wales : 4461981

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Cyfarchion – Now you know how to greet people in Welsh!

The Field Museum Library is now on the Flickr Commons, with stellar images of Chicago and Illinois and dinosaurs!

The Field Museum Library’s collections began in 1894 with the libraries of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Their collection includes images of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, and Zoology, as well as documents the history and architecture of the Museum, its exhibitions, staff and scientific expeditions.

I’m an American West history buff, so I was delighted find some of noted photographer William Henry Jackson’s work from the 1893 World’s Columbian Expo in this collection. It turns out that Marshall Field commissioned Jackson to travel the world photographing specimens for the new museum. Cheers to that, and welcome to the Commons!

William Henry Jackson
Agricultural Building at Night
The Field Museum Library: GN90799d_JWH_001w

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With a big ‘Hello’ from the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon State University Archives joins the Flickr Commons today.

Coinciding with the 150th Birthday of Oregon, OSU is the first university to join the Commons. Beginning its Commons adventure with 117 images from the Gerald W. Williams collection focusing on OSU’s history of conservation and forestry, Oregon State has more uploads from the OSU Archives illustrating culture, natural resources, and history to look forward to in the coming months.

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Camp Sitkum wood detail
Oregon State University Archives: WilliamsG:CCC Sitkum wood

We’re delighted to welcome the State Archives of Florida to the Flickr Commons today!

As the central repository for the archives of Florida State Government, they have made over 300 images from their The Florida Memory Project available on Flickr and opened them up for comments and tagging.

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Dottie Schroeder, catcher, shouting play ball behind mask, April 22, 1948.
State Archives of Florida: c009837

With a Happy Australia Day! from Flickr, The Commons today welcomes a new institution — the State Library of Queensland, Australia, with the first of what we hope will be many of the 45,000 images digitized so far for its Picture Queensland collection, out of an overall photographic collection some 1.5 million strong.

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Beach girl Merle Woodward, n.d., Caloundra, Australia
State Library of Queensland: 7708-0001-0082

Flickr announced today that the National Galleries of Scotland have joined The Commons, with 107 photos. Those first releases include a large selection of important early photographs from Hill (seen on the right in this photo) and Adamson.

Robert Adamson, David Octavius Hill
Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill, 1843 – 1847
National Galleries of Scotland: PGP HA 435