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Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

The National Maritime Museum’s recent uploads take a mammalian turn: is there a kitten on this ship?

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

Posted April 6th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

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!

Posted March 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

Happy Commonsversary to the Swedish National Heritage Board

Posted by Penny in News

Join us in celebrating the first anniversary of the Swedish National Heritage Board in the Flickr Commons!

Stella welcomes you!

Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden

We’ll start with drinks in the garden at the villa …

Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden

Then over to the Maypole, specially decorated for our festivities.

Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden

Some water fresh from the well? Ask Calla Curman!

Calla Curman at a well, Spain

And we’ll finish the celebration with dancing, led by the Runestone Man — jazz hands, everybody!

Rune stone, Krogsta, Uppland, Sweden

Love what you see? There’s more — a whole year’s worth!

Posted March 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

The National Library of Wales‘ additions to its Geoff Charles collection include a young Ian Williams, in 1941. Mr. Williams, if you’re out there, let us know!

Ian Williams of Trewern, Welshpool who dug up a “V-shaped” for victory potato

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian takes us underground in Lisbon – into the Metropolitano.

Metropolitano de Lisboa, Portugal

The Oregon State University Archives has uploaded a new set of photographs of Native Americans, from the Gerald W. Williams Collection, and more images of infrastructure – this time bridges.

Aerial view of the Pendleton Roundup

It was a baseball kind of day (with a bit of football thrown in) for the Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection upload. Signs of spring?

[John Brush Hempstead, son of the New York Giants president Harry Hempstead and grandson of the late John T. Brush (former president of the New York Giants), throws out first pitch of Game One of the 1913 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York

John Brush Hempstead … throws out first pitch …

We’re catching up with the DC Public Library! New to the RSS feeds but less new to the Commons are nearly 40 mostly colorized views of the city of Washington, D.C., including some that seem awfully familiar.

shoveled sidewalks following the an 1899 snow storm

The LSE Library features Lord Beveridge: LSE student, director, and author of “the Beveridge Report (officially, the Social Insurance and Allied Services Report) of 1942, the basis of the 1945-51 Labour Government’s legislation program for social reform”.

William Beveridge (centre) at Suffrage Fancy Ball, c1910

From the Swedish National Heritage Board, we present Stockholm’s Villa Bonnier, in autochromes.

Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden

And the Bergen Public Library presents … the theater!

The old theatre hall

Posted February 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

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The Smithsonian Institution highlights the work of expressionist-influenced artist William Johnson, in William H. Johnson’s World on Paper – relief prints and serigraphs

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

Posted February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

The Bergen Public Library’s uploads include a set from the 1906 royal visit to the city.

The King and Queen leaving after placing the foundation stone

It’s Advertising Week at the Powerhouse Museum — with 15 photos from the Rousel archive. “The archive is a significant record of the work of an important Sydney signwriting and graphic design studio” of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Large wall advertising signs for The Hub Ltd

Don’t keep up with the Flickr blog? Then you might not know about the Smithsonian Institution’s Timothy O’Sullivan upload this week, of Western landscapes.

Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, below Fortification Rock, Arizona (Wheeler Survey)

The OSU Archives go urban, with a set of towns and buildings of Oregon

Commercial Street, Astoria, Oregon, covered in snow

The State Library of Florida branches out – to the flowers at the ends of the branches. (Note that this visitor is unnamed — do you know her?)

Visitor photographing a blood lily (Scadoxus multiflorus) at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida

The Library of Congress’s Friday Bain Collection upload includes portraits of the last of Russian royalty.

Czarina and Czarewitsch

The Library of Wales strengthens its Commons collection of John Thomas’s portraits of Welsh people.

Business Bob, Llanrwst

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse focuses this week on Caylus, a village northwest of Toulouse.

Vieux pigeonnier, Caylus, 5 juin 1906

The LSE Library has added more formal portraits of its faculty and staff, with extracts about some from obituaries, magazine features, and elsewhere.

Walter Hughes, 1982

The Swedish National Heritage Board has more 19th-century photos from Spain in need of identification – and some already identified before you read this.

Ronda, Spain (formerly: Streetview in unidentified town, Spain)

Posted February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

As well as the Ansel Adams set belonging to new Commons member the U.S. National Archives, this week’s highlights include:

The Swedish National Heritage Board has uploaded more of Carl Curman’s honeymoon photos, including another unidentified site in Spain.

Unidentified town, Spain

The Field Museum brings us new (to the Commons) photographs from British Guiana in the 1920s.

Two women with buckets seated at waterside

It’s fishing season at State Library and Archives of Florida – for big fish.

Mr. John Hachmeister and Mrs. Earl Baum admiring a 1,200 lb manta ray caught by Forrest Walker

The Library of Congress’s Friday upload this week is a set of illustrated newspaper covers of 1910 – one hundred years ago.

How much can Gotham afford to give thirsty neighbors?

It’s winter in the Netherlands – time for winter sports at Nationaal Archief!

Bobsleeën, skeleton / Bobsleigh, skeleton

LIGC ~ NLW brings us portraits and people outdoors from Wales, including a dog that’s far too happy for the shutter speed of the camera.

Girl with a dog, Llansanffraid [Glynceiriog?]

The National Maritime Museum has added videos to the Commons for the first time from its film archive, from almost the whole of the 20th century.

Before the Mast (date unknown)

The State Library of Queensland, Australia has a set of colourful postcards of Queensland.

Band Rotunda in Queen’s Park, Maryborough, ca. 1930

Posted February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News, Recent Uploads

The Library of Congress has added to its Commons collections 22 photographs by the great landscape photographer of the American West Timothy O’Sullivan — and they’d like to know how you would like to see them focus future uploads along this line.

Humboldt Mts., Nevada

New from the Bergen Public Library: photographs from the 1898 Bergen Exhibition

The Industry Hall

Tje LSE Libraryhas added decades worth of staff portraits to its Flickr collections.

Brian Abel-Smith , c1980s

One of the new uploads from the Swedish National Heritage Board to the Curman collection is already part of a wonderful gallery: The Way Things Were, from CameliaTWU.

Seaside restaurant, Lysekil, Sweden

The Brooklyn Museum has added several more photographs to its Italian Cathedrals set, including some architectural drawings.

Cathedral, Pisa, Italy, 1895.

From the National Library of Wales, there is a new range of portraits and landscapes by John Thomas.

Newcastle Emlyn cricket team

Did someone say futebol? The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian hears you, with a set of photographs of Lisbon football stadiums.

Estádio Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal

Oregon State University Archives bring together some of their best, in Through the Season.

Skier on Mt. Hood

Posted January 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Somewhere in Spain – but where?

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in News

The Swedish National Heritage Board asks your help in identifying the locations of photographs taken by Carl Curman while on his honeymoon in Spain in 1878. These photos will be uploaded as the Board prepares them, but to start with …

Where in Andalusia is this?

Unidentified town in Andalusia, Spain

Posted January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Recent Uploads to the Commons

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Recent Uploads

From Nationaal Archief, a set of remarkable — and often entertaining — inventions. I rather like the electrically heated jacket, myself.

Amfibiefiets / Amphibious bicycle

The Swedish National Heritage Board continues to add to its Swedish scenes and ancient monuments sets.

Rune stone, Jursta, Södermanland, Sweden

The Brooklyn Museum has uploaded hundreds of photographs of Italian churches — a real treasure for the architectural historian! You can help map them using Suggestify, from any photo page.

S. Frediano, Lucca, Italy, 1895

The Smithsonian Institution add to its People and the Post set.

Unidentified rural letter carrier in his cold weather gear

In case you missed it over the holidays, here’s The twelve days of Christmas, from the State Library of Queensland, Australian

Two turtle doves (two turtles)

The Library of Congress ended the year with a fresh upload of illustrated newspaper covers.

Colonel Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill

There are more aircraft photos and publicly produced short films from the State Library of Florida. Each film clip links to a full-length version of the film in the Florida archives.