indicommons » Smithsonian Institution http://www.indicommons.org Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Gwen Lux, American sculptor and designer, 1908-1986, in her studio http://www.indicommons.org/2010/05/15/gwen-lux-american-sculptor-and-designer-1908-1986-in-her-studio/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/05/15/gwen-lux-american-sculptor-and-designer-1908-1986-in-her-studio/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 11:00:52 +0000 Nina http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7923 Gwen Lux, American sculptor and designer, 1908-1986, in her studio

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Gwen Lux, American sculptor and designer, 1908-1986, in her studio
creation date: unknown
Smithsonian Institution: J0001886

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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
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/05/06/hands-across-the-commons/feed/ 1 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:00:39 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7992 The National Maritime Museum’s recent uploads take a mammalian turn: is there a kitten on this ship? The ship’s cats, HMS ‘Hawkins’
The Library of Congress’s Sneak Preview! set provides a jumping-off spot to several different aspects of the LOC’s redesigned Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, at its new address: www.loc.gov/pictures
For president, Abram Lincoln. For vice president, Hannibal Hamlin
The National Library of Wales’s additions to the Geoff Charles collection include fairs, carnivals, and Eistedfodds. (Can anyone identify this tuba player?)
National Eisteddfod of Wales 1956, Aberdare
The recent explorations of the Swedish National Heritage Board take us as far as Italy and Estonia.
Ruhnu Old Church St. Magdalene, island of Ruhnu, Estonia
The Brooklyn Museum adds to its photographs of Italian Cathedrals.
Altamura, Italy
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse focuses again on Cornusson – on what was “antique” already in 1908.
Cabane antique, Cornusson, septembre 1908
From the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, beautiful lines of Lisbon’s architecture.
Praça Francisco Sá Carneiro, Lisboa, Portugal
The Smithsonian’s Women in Science month comes to an end, leaving a rich collection of images in the Commons.
Gene Tunney (1897-1978) and science fair participants, September 24, 1940
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/04/06/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-17/feed/ 0 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/30/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-16/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/30/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-16/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00:46 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7957 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
Donald Cameron Watt, c1980
Oregon State University rushes into spring with rushing waters and steadfast stones. Waterfall at Hug Point
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
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
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
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!

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Portrait of two men (c. 1860)
For Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian celebrates more women in science.
Ire`ne Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921
In the lead-up to St. Patrick’s Day, the Library of Congress has added Ireland to its travel photochroms on Flickr.
[Menawn Cliffs, Achill. County Mayo, Ireland]
The University of Washington has added a large set of photographs from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Arctic Brotherhood Building presentation ceremony
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian hasgone fishing!
Recolha de redes de pesca, Portugal
The Powerhouse Museum has made additions to the Roussel archive set in its Commons collection. Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth's K B Lager, 1920 - 1929
Close-up of part of advertising sign on a wall advertising Tooth’s K B Lager, 1920 – 1929
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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
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A photochrom image of two knitting and spinning Welshwomen, 1890s, in traditional costumes Welsh women knitting and spinning
[Library of Congress]
Mr. Roberts, a Welsh harpist, c. 1875 man seated at a harp
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales
A family of Welsh immigrants to Patagonia, Argentina, 1924; this photo was taken as part of the Captain Marshall Field Expedition for Vertebrate Paleontology (1922-1925) family seated in front of a house
Field Museum Library
Fisherman’s family outside cottage, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, c.1890 (be sure to see the then-and-now posted in the comments on this one) alley and cottage
National Maritime Museum
Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) artist Frank Brangwyn
Smithsonian Institution
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creator: Edward S. Curtis
Luqaiot – Kittitas, c. 1907-1930
Smithsonian Institution: SIL7-058-09

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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
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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
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