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Recent Uploads

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The Swedish National Heritage Board still seeks your help in identifying these Norwegian locations.

Carl Curman – Europe

The Library of Congress posts a series of newspaper images from yesteryear –

part of Chronicling America.

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements

The Powerhouse Museum adds a few photographs to its Tom Lennon Photographic Collection.

Tom Lennon Photographic Collection

Take a ride in a Bugatti with the State Library of New South Wales.

Bugatti Type 40, belonging to R.C. Thomas, probably Parramatta, NSW, 1933 / G.A. Schofield

Cars

The State Library of Queensland’s picture of the week is a crowd scene: The parade of Bert Hinkler’s Avro Avian aeroplane through the streets of Brisbane.

Crowds in Brisbane to see Bert Hinkler's Avro Avian, 1928

Picture of the Week

Marvel at the magnificent Gothic architecture from the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Igreja Matriz de Ganfei, Valença, Portugal

Concelho de Valença

They’ve also updated one of their sets with photographs by Robert Chester Smith.

Igreja do Mosteiro de Bustelo, Penafiel, Portugal

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse invites you to visit Cahuzac-sur-Vère.

Bélesta, descente sur Cahuzac, octobre 1902

Cahuzac-sur-Vère

Posted June 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

Exploration across the Commons

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Who doesn’t love a great adventure story? One replete with strange new lands, hard journeys across the high seas, and amazing new sights to behold . . .

Journey through the Commons and you might find …

… a voyage to Antarctica at the turn of the last century.

Aurora traversing loose pack ice entering the Durville Sea, Dec. 1913

State Library of New South Wales

Explorers headed toward the North Pole …

Andree's Station at Danskoen, Spitzbergen, Norway

Library of Congress

… and the Inuit they find there.

At Cape York - Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition

National Maritime Museum

Adventure beckoned in the then-New Frontier, as when Yosemite was encountered by Western travelers …

New York Public Library

… or the unknowns of South America.

Field Museum

And then there is tomorrowland …

State Archives of Florida

… and outer space!

Fingers, Loops, and Bays in the Crab Nebula (A supernova remnant and pulsar located 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus.)

Smithsonian Institution

Show us the Commons explorations you’ve found in our Flickr group.

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Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The George Eastman House shows off their large photographic button collection. So cheery.

Celluloid Medallions & Buttons

Jump into summer with the Nationaal Archief!

Strandleven / Seaside life

Bottoms up with Helen Twelvetrees, from the State Library of New South Wales.

Film & cinema

Get jiggly with the National Library of New Zealand’s stereoscopic images! Make a jiggly image and show it off by linking in the comments.

Stereographs

Climb farther into the Powerhouse Museum’s Tyrrell Collection of glass plate negatives.

Tyrrell Collection

Scale the walls with the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Concelho de Monção

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, delivers another exceptional Picture of the Week.

Picture of the Week

More great northwest photos of the CCC crews, from the Oregon State University Archives.

CCC at Camp Aboretum

Get yer tickets to the White City at the Field Museum!

1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Posted June 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Animal Magnetism across the Commons

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Animals are a common theme in the Flickr Commons, and we’ve noticed some very magnetic images of them across the institutions. Always good for a laugh … Here are some of our favorites.

The absurdly camel version of Mr. Ed …

Field Museum

A flock of sheep frolicking …

Oregon State University Archives

A ~~performing~~ sitting bear …

Berenleider / Animal trainer with performing bear

Nationaal Archief

Man’s best friend …

Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana

Library of Congress

An interloper elephant …

Elephant's tea party, Robur Tea Room, Sydney, 24 March 1939 / Sam Hood

State Library of New South Wales

… and thieving pelicans.

(Their beaks can hold more than their bellies can!)

Pelicans try to steal fish from Robert Putnam: Saint Petersburg, Florida

State Archives of Florida

What animals are you attracted to in the Commons?

Posted June 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads: Fawns, Galaxies, and Volcanoes … oh my!

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Get yer hankies out: the State Archives of Florida uploads the location scouting photos for MGM’s 1946 film The Yearling.

The photographs taken for pre-production of The Yearling document two significant aspects of Florida culture: the state’s role in American film and the folklife of Florida “Crackers.”

“The Yearling”: Pre-production and Location Photographs of MGM’s “The Yearling,” 1939-1941

The Field Museum goes crazy and provides 170 more images of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. The White City comes to life with these gorgeous, crisp, clean images of the fair.

1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

The Field Museum also brings the first images of South America into the Flickr Commons with a great set of photos from geology expeditions in Argentina during the 1920s.

Argentina Geology Expeditions

Happy International Year of Astronomy from the Smithsonian Institutions’ Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Chandra X-ray Observatory

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, is now posting its Photo of the Week at the Flickr Commons. This week’s image is of the 1893 flood in Brisbane.

Picture of the Week

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Posted June 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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Video-mania! The State Library and Archives of Florida posts a number of fascinating film clips. The ‘72 Republican and Democratic Conventions, news reels, and mermaids. Wow!

Filming Florida

The Smithsonian Institution celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a series of portraits.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

The New York Public Library brings us three new sets of photographs on New York City! Their Broadway Street Views set is

like a a 19th century version of Google’s Street View.

Broadway Street Views (1899)

They also have fashionable images of 5th Avenue,

from Washington Square up to Central Park, passing other pedestrians, carriages, cops, and storefronts long since gone.

Fifth Avenue, New York (1911)

Also, they have photos of the construction of the Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world back in 1913. Do not miss seeing these images!

Construction of the Woolworth Building in New York City

We are all just gaga over the Algiers postcards from the newest member of the Commons, the Getty Research Institute. Getty has maps, too!

Postcards of Algiers, a Virtual Tour

Frolic with farmers and sheep in a delightful set of images from the National Library of Wales.

Ffarmio / Farming

The State Library of New South Wales impresses us with more delightful Sam Hood photographs, everything from elephants at a tea party to art deco and fabulous dancers.

Sam Hood

Visit Cahuzac-sur-Vère, France, courtesy of the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Cahuzac-sur-Vère

See images of Olivença, a border town between Portugal and Spain, from the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Olivença

See more great views of Sweden from the Swedish National Heritage Board’s collection.

Carl Curman – Sweden

Fifty more images from the Library of Congress’s Bains New Service collection are uploaded: beaches, baseball, biplanes, and noted persons.

News in the 1910s

Posted May 19th, 2009 | No Comments »

Nom nom nom across the Commons

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Supper time across the Commons …

Oregon State University Archives

Hot dogs! nom nom

New York Public Library

Mmmmmmmmmm, nom nom … catfish!

State Library of New South Wales

Pie! nom!

George Eastman House

Eels? nom?

Powerhouse Museum

nom nom nom nom nom nom

Nantucket Historical Association

Posted May 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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New glass plate negatives from the Powerhouse Museum.

One of these things is not like the other …

Phillips Glass Plate Negatives Collection

North African ruins, by popular demand at the Brooklyn Museum, featuring Tebessa, Algeria, and Roman ruins.

North Africa: Ruins

From the Oregon State University Archives, photos of logging camps by Arthur M. Prentiss. Love that Pacific Northwest scenery. This is Three Fingered Jack near Bend, Oregon.

May 6, 2009
New Additions to the Williams Collection

Machinery, including a Hercules art deco vacuum cleaner, at the State Library of New South Wales. Great photography from the acclaimed Sam Hood.

Art Deco

It’s definitely spring at the Library of Congress! Polo, Meadowlands, big ships with guns, noted politicians and baseball!

News in the 1910s

From the Biblioteca de Arte–Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: new sets in its collections of Portuguese architecture. This week they’ve got monuments of Gothic architecture in the Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.

Concelho da Póvoa de Varzim

They’ve also added some color photographs to their Lisbon set.

Lisboa

More by Carl Curman, from the Swedish National Heritage Board.

Who are these seven men in a garden?

Carl Curman

And we welcome LIGC ~ NLW: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales – to the Commons!

The National Library of Wales

Posted May 12th, 2009 | No Comments »

Mother’s Day across the Commons

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Probably the most iconic mother of all, the Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange.

George Eastman House

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa, by Jack Delano.

Library of Congress

Calla Lundström Curman — writer, editor, feminist, and conservationist — with her children, Sigurd and Carolina Curman.

Swedish Heritage Board

Actress Helen Twelvetrees and her son Jack Woody.

State Library of New South Wales

Aboriginal family near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, 1919.

Musée McCord

Miccosukee mother rocks her baby in a hammock.

State Library and Archives of Florida

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Posted May 10th, 2009 | No Comments »

The 1860s across the Commons

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One neat thing about the Flickr Commons is the ability to see what a decade in time looked like across the world. I went on a little mission to gather up photos across the Commons from a particular era: the 1860s. Why the 1860s? Because by then, photography had more or less taken off, as explained here by the University of Houston, and because there was a wider representation of 1860s photos across the Commons than earlier decades.

The U.S. underwent one of the most significant milestones in our history in the 1860s, the U.S. Civil War. This war is quite well documented in photos. One photo that stood out is this photo of Lincoln on the battlefield at Antietam in 1862.

Library of Congress

Sadly, here is Lincoln’s funeral procession in Chicago, 1865.

Library of Congress

Venturing away from the agony of war, we find so many interesting items about the 1860s: dress, transportation, architecture, even style of photography (think sepia!). This photo is of a rural scene in Australia.