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

Sometimes all that seems to change over time is where the photographer is standing, how the camera is held, the color in the photograph.

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Fred H. Kiser
Lava fields of Wizard Island, Circa 1915-1920
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We celebrate the 1st anniversary of Oregon State University Archives this weekend! OSU still holds the celebrated spot of being the only university participating in The Commons (but there’s more to come in the year ahead). With a little over 270,000 views on all of their photos, they have much to cheer about!

As both part of their Commonsversary celebration and the 2010 Winter Olympics, they’ve uploaded a new set of images, OSU Olympians. Pictured here is OSU athlete Dick Fosbury winning the 1968 Olympic high jump in Mexico City (and setting a record at the time!).

Dick Fosbury

A mainstay of the OSU’s Commons material is from the the Gerald W. Williams Collection, consisting of the collected historical photographs, personal papers, and research library of Gerald “Jerry” Williams, former national historian for the U.S. Forest Service. There is a treasure trove of Pacific Northwest images in this collection; these are an important record of the history of the state of Oregon.

Gerald W. Williams Collection

One of the newest sets in this collection, in time for their 1st birthday on The Commons, contains a wealth of trains and railroad photographs. Workers, logs, trains, bridges – oh my! If you’re near their campus on Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, drop by to see all they have to offer from the Commons, in the lobby of the Valley Library; It’ll be on the big jumbo screen Smartboard for a day-long slideshow!

Railroads & Trains

One of the earliest and most popular sets of photos OSU Archives uploaded to The Commons is that of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a part of the New Deal during the 1930s, the CCC was responsible for building much of the infrastructure of the Pacific Northwest. Enrollees fought fires on the Tillamook Burns, helped build ski areas on Mt Hood, built telephone and electrical wires, and improved farm lands.

Civilian Conservation Corps

More great photos of infrastructure being built is found in the Celilo Falls set. The images of this dam being built on the Columbia River are thrilling.

Celilo Falls

My absolute favorite collection of theirs is Take a Trip: traveling and touring with the Visual Instruction Lantern Slides Collection. There’s so much great material here, from historical and iconic images of great rails like the Shasta and Sunset Routes to images of the The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Their sets on Oregon industry are a great look back to how we worked and lived in the 20th Century while Early Settlement of Oregon takes you back to centuries prior.

Take a Trip!

And no matter what time of the year you drop into the OSU on the Commons, you’ll find something timely, in their Through the Seasons set. Here’s to another happy winter … spring, summer, and fall!

Through the Seasons