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Alvin Langdon Coburn Alfred Stieglitz, creation date:c. 1907 Smithsonian Institution: aaa_miscphot_5498 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 58 prints — the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s entire collection — by Washington DC painter Gene Davis (1920-85) Untitled, n.d. You might not thing “sports” when you think “London School of Economics”, but these new LSE Library archival uploads will change that. LSE Sports Day, Malden Sports Ground, c1920s More in the LIGC ~ [...] - Criz

creator: unknown Nankeen and white cranes, creation date: unknown Powerhouse Museum: Tyrrell Photographic Collection view + comment on Flickr - Criz

A warm midwinter welcome to the Commons to Norway’s second biggest public library, the Bergen Public Library. The Bergen Public Library’s music-related archives form the core of its first uploads to the Commons on Flickr, featuring composer Edvard Grieg, violinist Ole Bull — and their friends and family: - Criz

Perhaps it’s natural, while looking at old photos, to wonder, “What ever happened to that person?” Every once in a while, through comments, tags, and notes in the Flickr Commons, we learn the answer. Score one for crowdsourcing! One such mystery was solved recently. This lovely image of a girl using a sextant to calculate latitude [...] - Criz

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 They’re getting ready for Christmas at the State Library [...] - Criz

ok, you can't see the hail, but you could feel it! - Criz from Bookmarklet

creator: unknown [Kidwelly Castle, Carmarthen, Wales], creation date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 The Library of Congress: LOT 13408, no. 056 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

New this fall at the State Library and Archives of Florida: From Florida from orbit and hurricane video from 1928 and an interview about the assassination of President Kennedy to many photos of airplanes . Passengers on a Pan Am Boeing 307 From the Oregon State University Archives, my favorite set name: People doing stuff in [...] - Criz

New this autumn (spring in the south of the world) from the National Maritime Museum: Many images of individual ships, and some as well of Naval College staff and of buildings in the area of London ports, with a scattering of other related photographs — all of it being aspects of the life of the [...] - Criz

“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 [...] - Criz

From the Flickr Commons thread highlighting some of the remarkable images of bridges across the Commons: Castle and suspension bridge, Conway (i.e. Conwy), Wales, ca. 1890–ca. 1900 (more about the Conway bridge). Library of Congress Suspension bridge, Niagara, ON, 1869, designed by John Roebling (before the Brooklyn Bridge), photographed by William Notman. Musée McCord Museum Templand Bridge, Cumnock, Scotland, ca. [...] - Criz

A happy first year in the Commons to the National Library of New Zealand, who joined The Commons on Flickr on November 27, 2008. Since then, we’ve learned just how active in new ways of reaching out to users through technology the NLNZ is, with exciting projects like DigitalNZ. And check the magnifier on their [...] - Criz

By sport and feasting Americans will prove they are a thankful people this week, November 20, 1904 Library of Congress: lccn.loc.gov/2007618519 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

Smithsonian Institution Caroline Tamtama (tamtama) THEN NOW 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? - Criz

Bain News Service, publisher. Fernand Cormon (LOC), between 1910 and 1915. The Library of Congress: LC-B2- 2583-9 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

Time to upgrade! Version 1.1 of Indicommons for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the Apple App Store, and you want it — because like us, you love maps. The Indicommons app now shows the location of any geotagged Commons photo on a ma — perfect for hunting for that Then & Now location. If [...] - Criz

creator: Richard Kearton Gannet, or Solan Goose, Published 1905 National Galleries of Scotland: PGP R 888.12 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

creator: unknown Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, 1946 Galt Museum & Archives: P19941013007 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

On October 21, 2008, the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo became the first Dutch heritage institutions to place a small selection of their photos on Flickr in The Commons. Within two weeks, the photostream of the Nationaal Archief had over 400,000 page views and 400 comments. These large numbers were caused by the extensive amount [...] - Criz

Marking Armistice Day, around the world. We remember. After the battle on the Menin Road, France, 1917 State Library of Queensland, Australia view + comment on Flickr - Criz

unknown GUNNER THOMAS HAROLD BURTON, 178 BRIGADE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY , 1915 Imperial War Museum: HU_093371 Killed in action during World War I. view + comment on Flickr - Criz

Here at Indicommons, we’re very pleased to announce the release of Indicommons for iPhone® and iPod touch®. You can now keep up to date with the very latest Commons happenings, no matter where you are. With the app, you can not only read the latest blog entries from us here at Indicommons, but you can also [...] - Criz

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 [...] - Criz

Adolph B. Rice Studio Hotchkiss Field, Halloween, October 31, 1959 Library of Virginia: Rice Collection 2564A view + comment on Flickr - Criz

We’re delighted to note the arrival in the Commons of the LSE Library, a.k.a. the British Library of Political & Economic Science, home to the research collection of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The LSE Library kicks things off this week with a lens onto its own over-a-century-long history and with some non-photographic [...] - Criz

The Commons Galleries: Early colour photographic processes in The Commons on Flickr – featuring Lú_’s curation Applied colour, Southworth & Hawes, ca. 1850 … with additional colour provided by the effect of time on metal. George Eastman House Hand-tinted, ca. 1875 State Library of New South Wales Photochrom prints, also called Aäc, are ink-based images produced though “the direct photographic [...] - Criz

creator: unknown Geo. Lurich (LOC), creation date: unknown The Library of Congress: LC-B2- 2643-14 view + comment on Flickr - Criz

Great collection of iPhone for photogs - from geotagging to exposure aides - Criz

The Flickr Commons project lets us see the 19th-century beginnings of photography represented in a very 21st-century space. And among those early treasures, we have reminders that women were there at the very beginning, some of the first to embrace photography as an art and as a tool. Consider these four founding mothers: Anna Atkins (1799-1871) [...] - Criz