The Brooklyn Museum has increased its Italian architecture collection – keep checking these sets for more!

Scala Minelli, Venice, Italy

From the LSE Library, more London School of Economic visitors — and photos from the school radio station, which opened in 1999.

Judge Jules at Pulse FM, 12 December 2003

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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

Add the portraits you’ve found in The Commons to the Flickr Commons discussion group thread for portraits.

Your weekly round-up of the latest items from The Commons’ digital archives:

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

We’ve been remiss in pointing out all the delectable new offerings in The Commons as our focus has been on events the institutions have held or celebrated. So, this week’s look at recent uploads contains a wealth of material waiting to be crowdsourced!

Beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, from the Estúdio Horácio Novais in the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’ collection. Won’t you please help tag these phenomenal images in the language of your choice?

Lisboa: perspectivas gerais e parciais

They’ve also added some fun advertisements from yesteryear!

Publicidade

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse, also needs your help tagging photos. Try the new photos they’ve added to this dandy set of transportation – on the road in France!

Sur la route (automobiles, charrettes, bicyclettes…)

Visit some stunning gardens courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution! These historic glass lantern slides of gardens dated from the 1920s and 1930s, considered a “golden era” for gardens in America’s history.

Archives of American Gardens

View 3 African expeditions in this marvelous set from The Field Museum Library. This is a must-see collection which includes some real prizes by the renowned Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Africa Expeditions

The National Library of Wales presents some period sepia portraits from John Dillwyn Llewellyn and his family. A real treasure.

Ffotograffiaeth Gynnar Abertawe / Early Swansea Photography

Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel and more are featured in the Library of Congress’s ode to America’s national pastime. Just in time for the pennant races. Those damn yankees, why can’t we beat ‘em? They also uploaded a slew of baseball photographs from the Bain News Service, too.

Baseball Americana

The Powerhouse Museum also adds to two of their sets, images from Tom Lennon and Tyrell Collections. The big band era is in full swing here.

Tom Lennon and Tyrell Photographic Collections

The State Library of New South Wales gets fancy with a pair of risque dancers!

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The Oregon State University Archives gets credit for most utilitarian set name with these cool photos of people doin’ their thing. Photographs by Herman Theodore Bohlman.

People doing stuff in the Herman Bohlman Collection

Get your flight on with these historical images of Florida aviation from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

Florida Flights of Fancy

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, dishes up a feast of good harvests to celebrate their state’s 150th birthday. Dinner time!

At our Table

See more ruins and ancient monuments, from the Swedish National Heritage Board.

Ancient monuments

You know the Galt Museum & Archives in Canada recently joined The Commons, eh? Check our this set of one of their curator’s favorites. Fun stuff – especially as Halloween draws near.

Belinda’s Favourites

Carl Curman
St. Karin Church ruin, Visby, Gotland, Sweden, 1890s
Swedish National Heritage Board: 20010329001:Cc000385

Are you a Commons fan living in Sweden? Join the Swedish National Heritage Board to celebrate The Commons at their Common Ground event in Visby on the Baltic Sea on Saturday Night!

in Visby, Gotland Municipality, Sweden :

What’s new in The Commons? Fish, jazz, bridges, caves, ships, stereopgraphs and (yay!) photochroms!

The Swedish National Heritage Board brings us a brand new set! These are remarkable photographs of ancient monuments, including rune stones from the 11th century AD and Neolithic dolmens and passage graves from about 3500 BC.

Ancient monuments

See the Titanic sail away on its maiden voyage from Southampton, courtesy of the National Maritime Museum

PortCities London

Wow, the State Library and Archives of Florida goes all out with their celebrity images. Here’s Duke Ellington playing a local Ft.Lauderdal, FL. school.

Roy Erickson Collection: Fort Lauderdale, the Famous and the Familiar, 1969-1981

The Oregon State University Archives presents early 20th century industry in Oregon. See a whole lotta fish, too.

Oregon Industries, circa 1905-1910

Yes! 108 new photochroms from the Library of Congress. This time, we travel to Begium to view beachside and pastoral scenes.

Photochrom Travel Views

View the wonderful Eugène Trutat’s images of Tarn, France, in the 1890s, from the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Tarn