Signs
To open, a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson about a limbo of libraries… In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, […]
George Oates
Sweet suxteen!
Reporting from Auckland, I’m sitting next to Courtney Johnston, Web Editor at the National Library of New Zealand. One of the very first enquiries we […]
Remembering
By the time of the Great War, photography was entering a robust seventy-fifth year. The cumbersome equipment and demanding processes of earlier battlefields had been […]
More new map tiles
We’ve added new tiles from OpenStreetMap for two cities on the Flickr world map: For Kabul, Afghanistan… …and Baghdad, Iraq. The pictures […]
Arbeids, Spelen and the Tweede Wereldoorlog
With over 14 million images in their collection, the Nationaal Archief is the largest public archive in the Netherlands, and we’re thrilled to have them […]
Views of Canada
The first Canadian institution in The Commons on Flickr joins us today. Musée McCord Museum shares with us a glorious selection of historic photos of […]
Virginia, 1949-1961
From thespians to auto-workers, street views to the air, the Adolph B. Rice Studio Collection reminds me somewhat of what we now know as a […]
Australian Firsts (and more mappy goodness!)
“Firsts” is the theme that guided the State Library of New South Wales‘ curation of their first installment in The Commons on Flickr. Welcome! Browse […]
Faster films, better lenses
Jessica Johnston, curator in the George Eastman House photo department, has selected a new round of photographs to share with us in The Commons. […]
The Sea, the Sea
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich joins The Commons on Flickr today. Comprised of three separate sites – the Maritime Galleries, the Royal Observatory and […]
Trawling
Photos from φ [浪人], Lina.S, TommyOshima, and Zebrio. Discovered in scribeoflight’s favourites.
Inside
Thank you, lisa scheer.