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!

Nina Kuriloff is a New York-based painter whose selections from the Commons have enlivened our Best of the Commons posts recently. Many of our Across the Commons posts recently have drawn on her selections in themed topics in the Flickr Commons group, which this blog grew out of. This one, though, is special, because whether Nina knows it or not, many of the trees she’s discovered in the Commons, wherever they were found, echo her own paintings – Nina’s Trees:

Acacia tree and vegetation – Kenya, 1906

Field Museum

Large fig tree and native vine growing in the middle of sugar cane in the Logan district – Queensland, Australia, 1870

State Library of Queensland, Australia

Passaic River, below the falls (etching) – New Jersey, 1920

New York Public Library

Kembla fig tree – New South Wales, Australia, circa 1900

Powerhouse Museum

Baobab tree – Kenya, 1906

Field Museum

From the State Library of New South Wales, the Powerhouse Museum, the Library of Congress, and three other Flickr members, we’re delighted to present Vintage Dredge, by FrodoBabbs:

creator: unknown
Nankeen and white cranes, creation date: unknown
Powerhouse Museum: Tyrrell Photographic Collection

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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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“Real” life swamped our Recent Uploads posts … well, recently. But we’re back in gear, to let you know what’s new in the Commons. Starting with some of the earliest Commons member institutions …

The Library of Congress’s Bain Collection Fridays include more baseball and also archery and football; Brooklyn children, New York playgrounds and East Side babies; and quite possibly the sexiest diving photo I’ve ever seen (go find it!). There are 51 more additions to the newspaper supplement collection, and more of those popular (and beautiful) autochrome travel photographs, this time of Holland.

Capt. Storer, 1910-15

The Powerhouse Museum has a new set of beautiful sepia photographs of the Garden Palace from the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 (with “personal” connections for the Powerhouse Museum). There are also stereographic photographs from the mid-19th century by William Hetzer don’t miss the detailed historical information that accompanies this set. And in case you thought that Australia was all buildings and scenery, a recent upload of photographs of large groups of people, of all sorts.

Macquarie Place, Sydney, 1858-1860

The Brooklyn Museum has been gradually uploading images from the collections of curator/historian William Henry Goodyear, focusing on the architecture and art of Italy. So far these are in two sets: Palazzi, Villas and other Dwellings and Cloisters and Convents

Villa de Papa Giulio, Rome, Italy

New from the Smithsonian Institution: 27 images related to the postal service, including mail-censorship and wrecks on the way; new color slides from the Archive of American Gardens; historical images from the Reverend James Osborne Arthur collection, of reservations in Nebraska and New Mexico in the 1910s; photographs from (and of) the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation; and more gorgeous views of outer space.

Oswald Smith family, September 1, 1914

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has added new images from Caylus, Tarn-et-Garoone, in its Trutat collection.

Porte ogivale, Caylus, 5 juin 1906

And the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian had added over 200 new images, ranging from museum exhibitions of fashion and art objects to scenic landscapes to historic events. Of particular note are images of the collections of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, the 1927 Semana dos Hospitais, and gatherings of artists.

Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, Lisboa, Portugal

Portrait of strongman Don Athaldo

Powerhouse Museum

Bordoni

Library of Congress

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son

Smithsonian Institution

Ida Fieldman, March 1945

Jewish Women’s Archive

Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden

Swedish National Heritage Board

Laplander

New York Public Library

Ella Wesner, male impersonator

George Eastman House

Miss Estelle Doray, snowshoer, Montreal, Quebec, 1924

Musée McCord Museum

A child dressed in uniform, 1915

Australian War Memorial

Add the portraits you’ve found in The Commons to the Flickr Commons discussion group thread for portraits.