Clarence S. Darrow (center) standing near Rhea County Courthouse with unidentified man (left) and Arthur Garfield Hays (right), Dayton, Tennessee, probably July 20, 1925.

The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 10 more photos to its Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial set, and is looking for some help identifying some of the people shown. Are they locals from Dayton, Tennessee? Visitors there for the trial?

The Smithsonian adds,

The donor, Henrietta Silverman, gave us the photos that her father, William Silverman, took on a trip with his high school science teacher. It’s kind of a nice story. She wanted them to be part of an archive that values making their collections accessible to the public. Go Commons!

Thank you, Henrietta Silverman!

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Gramma loreto, Adult (Royal Gramma), 2002
Smithsonian Institution: C5-8

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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alfred Stieglitz, creation date:c. 1907
Smithsonian Institution: aaa_miscphot_5498

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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

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Caroline Tamtama loves Commons photo remixes so much that she’s created a separate group just for sharing and talking about those. Are you also Inspired by the Commons?

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

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The New York Public Library also dazzles us with color images of the Hudson River Valley; this set coincides with their new exhibition Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009. Pssssst! They are geotagged!

Mapping New York’s Shoreline: The Storied River

The National Library of Wales adds more sepia images of 19th-century Swansee.

Early Swansea Photography

26 new images from the Smithsonian; rain, shine, or hail – that postman always brings the mail!

People and the Post

Travel in style with more in-flight photos from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

Florida Flights of Fancy

Travel to France to enjoy the scenery with the Bibliothèque de Toulouse. Pssssst – they geotag, too!

Tarn-et-Garonne

They also have added to an interesting set on minerals.

Règne minéral

Cathedrals, steamers and runes are posted from the Swedish National Heritage Board.

Carl Curman – Sweden

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, posts a shot from an unknown photographer of Margaret Lawrie; be sure to click through the photo to read her story.

Picture of the week

Yay! 53 new newspaper illustrations from the Library of Congress!

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements