indicommons » Swedish National Heritage Board http://www.indicommons.org Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 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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Stella welcomes you! Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden
Bath attendant Stella, Lysekil, Sweden
We’ll start with drinks in the garden at the villa … Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Then over to the Maypole, specially decorated for our festivities. Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden
Maypole at Djura Church, Dalarna, Sweden
Some water fresh from the well? Ask Calla Curman! Calla Curman at a well, Spain
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
Rune stone, Krogsta, Uppland, Sweden
Love what you see? There’s more — a whole year’s worth!
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/03/17/happy-commonsversary-to-the-swedish-national-heritage-board/feed/ 2 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/25/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-13/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/25/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-13/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:13 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7773 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
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
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
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
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
Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
And the Bergen Public Library presents … the theater! The old theatre hall
The old theatre hall
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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
]]> http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/16/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-12/feed/ 0 Recent Uploads to the Commons http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/09/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-11/ http://www.indicommons.org/2010/02/09/recent-uploads-to-the-commons-11/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:30:06 +0000 Stephanie Fysh http://www.indicommons.org/?p=7619 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)
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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
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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
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Where in Andalusia is this?

Unidentified town in Andalusia, Spain

Unidentified town in Andalusia, Spain

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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.
Pilot Bill Lindley with his airplane
The Oregon State University Archives have fallen for waterfalls
Dry falls near Coulee City
The photostream of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiancarving and wall art.
Igreja Paroquial de Matosinhos, Portugal
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