Flickr Commons: Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands

Here are a few items from the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands collections in the Flickr Commons.

Can’t get enough of zeppelins and balloons, one of the collections from this source.

Santos-Dumont vaart met een zeppelin langs de Eiffeltoren / Zeppelin passing the Eiffel Tower
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‘Allo Spaceboy!

“Ruimtepak” voor stratosfeerballon / Space suit for stratospheric balloon, 1935

 

Zeppelin bij Empire State Building in aanbouw / Zeppelin near the Empire State Building under construction. The American airship ZR 3 Los Angeles flying near the Empire State Building under construction. The Zeppelin, built as LZ 126, is accompanied by some blimps. New York, the United States of America, 29 October 1930.

Another collection deals with tobacco:

Smokkelen van sigaretten in een boek /Smuggling cigarettes in a book. Germany, 1932.

Automaat voor brandende sigaretten / Cigarette machine delivering burning cigarettes for a penny. England, 1931.

Another, called Allerzielen, Allerheiligen / All Souls’ Day, All Saints’ Day, features graves.

Graven van Vincent en Theo van Gogh. The graves of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and his brother Theo [Theodore] van Gogh (1857-1891) at the churchyard in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Photo out of 1927.

Another focuses on “new life”:

Uit ei gebroken kuiken/Chick facing daylight for the first time, 1936.

Inventions, some stranger than others:

Houten badpakken /Wooden bathing suits, supposed to make swimming a lot easier. Haquian, Washington, USA, 1929

 

Eénwielige motorfiets / One wheel motor cycle. Invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine. Maximum speed: 150 kilometers per hour ( 93 Mph).

Gasaanvalbestendige kinderwagen / Gas war resistant pram, England, Hextable, 1938.

 

 

 

Flickr Commons: Royal Library, Denmark

Next up from the Flickr Commons are some public domain images courtesy of the Royal Library, Denmark. One of the three sets in its photostream contains images by photographer Sven Türck (1897-1954) from the 1930s and 1940s. When Türck died, The Royal Library acquired much of his work.

Romantik [Romance]  http://flic.kr/p/9XitUg

Cyklende på Strøget [Riding a bike] http://flic.kr/p/9Xmmyh

Rådhuspladsen [Copenhagen town hall square] http://flic.kr/p/9XYz6C

Mand og kvinde om bord på færge [Man and woman on a ferry]

http://flic.kr/p/9Xitqt

 

Flickr Commons: National Media Museum, UK

The National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom has an eclectic group of subsets in the Flickr Commons. Here are some examples.

The first 4 are among 22 “from two albums entitled ‘Official Australian War Photographs’, produced by the Australian War Records Section, established by the British government in 1917. These photographs are probably the work of official photographers James Francis (Frank) Hurley and George Hubert Wilkins.”

Taken September 27, 1917, Western Front: Western Front (Belgium), Menin Road Area Garter Point

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3007982262/

Caption from AWM: "Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. They form a silhouettte against the sky as they pass towards the front line to relieve their comrades, whose attack the day before won Broodseinde Ridge and deepened the Australian advance. Taken October 5, 1917, at Western Front (Belgium), Menin Road Area, Hooge."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3007981750/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3007981198

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3007145787/

It’s hard to know what to place after these — and they are not the starkest and most disturbing of the set of WWI photos in this stream.

But these will do. They are from a group of 16 called, “Don McCullin Selects.” McCullin, a contemporary British photographer, selected these works from the National Media Museum’s collection to accompany an exhibition of his own photos of archaeological remains around the Mediterranean. Other images feature Pompeii, Rome, Greece, and Lebanon.

Francis Frith (1822-1898); 'Sculptures in the Great Temple, Philae', 1857

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3588100191/

Karnak - The Amon Temple. By Lehnert & Landrock of Cairo (Rudolf Lehnert (1878-1948) & Ernst Landrock (1878-1966)); about 1925

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3588098691/

There are 20 pictures in Kodak No.1 Circular Snapshots, the first point and shoot camera. Introduced in 1888, it produced 2.5″ diameter circular images.

Woman in a rowing boat, about 1890

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164539/

Hansom cab, 1888

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780165657/

Sports from Flickr Commons: Canada’s McCord Museum

Once more,  the Flickr Commons‘ images from Canada’s McCord Museum’s Notman Photographic Archives, this time focusing on the subset “Sports,” largely simply to feature this picture:

Wrestlers, McGill boxing, wrestling and fencing club, Montreal, 1925

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5348752071/

Quebec: dog sledding, about 1934

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5348752873/

Fencers, McGill University, Montreal, 1925

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5348752127/

Gymnastic group, Montreal, 1891

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5348751435/

Bobsleighing at Ste. Agathe, Quebec, 1911

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5349360424/

Curling group, Montreal, 1867, by William Notman

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5349360054

 

Tyne rowing crew, Lachine, Quebec, 1870

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5349359958/

 

Hurdle race on snowshoes, Montreal, 1892

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5348751223

 

Yachting, hockey, lacrosse, boxing, ballroom dancing, football, croquet, and tennis are also featured among the 53 sports pictures on this photostream.

 

Flickr Commons: Canada’s McCord Museum

We continue our tour of the Flickr Commons with Canada’s McCord Museum’s Notman Photographic Archives. Among the sets in this collection are more than fifty images each of ships and trains, as well as views of Montreal and Canada. Use the http to get to the Flickr page where you can download the image in several sizes.

Hudson's Bay Company schooner "Nannuk" stuck in ice, 1921(?). Captain George E. Mack

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5352061942/

Whaleback S. S. Christopher Columbus at dock, Sault St. Marie(?), ON, about 1890. James Ricalton

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5351449127/

View of the harbour, looking east, Montreal, QC, 1884. Wm. Notman & Son

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2865649022/

Esquimault Dry Dock near Victoria, BC, 1887. William McFarlane Notman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5351450249/

Mrs. Cotter kayaking on the North West River, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, Newfoundland, 1909. Hugh A. Peck

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5351448555/

Vice-Regal train, Montreal, QC, 1878. Notman & Sandham

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5324104926/

Tramway crossing under construction, Ste. Catherine and St. Lawrence St., Montreal, QC, 1893. Wm. Notman & Son

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2861900171/

Hermit Range from Glacier Hotel, BC, 1887. William McFarlane Notman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/5324105412/

Tandem drive, Montreal, QC, 1889. Wm. Notman & Son

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2864642385

Harbour from Notre Dame Church, Montreal, QC, 1863. William Notman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2861900043/

Percé, QC, about 1900. Wm. Notman & Son

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2921301219/

Illecillewaet Glacier, Glacier Park, British Columbia, 1909. William McFarlane Notman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/2921302407/

Flickr Commons: National Library of Wales

Did you know that there are collections of public domain photos on Flickr?  A diverse group of museums and libraries have contributed some images to the section called The Flickr Commons. In my next set of posts, I will feature selections from some of the collections, particularly those not located in the US since the Library of Congress and US government sites have been used extensively here.

For no particular reason, I’m starting with these from the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales LIGC/NLW]. The NLW has uploaded some of its P. B. Abery collection of photographs taken mainly between 1890 and 1940 in Radnorshire, the border area of Wales and England. Http under the photos takes you to the Flickr page where you can download the image in several sizes.

These first four photos date from the mid 1870s. You can learn more about the photographer, John Thomas, here.

Six men in country dress

[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/5595551742/%5D

Two women in national dress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/5531728259/

Farlie's Patent double ended narrow guage steam locomotive, "Little Wonder". Railway staff are standing on the engine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/3722997121/

Conway Castle and bridge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/3814741676/

Celtic cross situated in the churchyard at St Nicholas and St Teilo's church. Penally. By P B Abery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/3451104076/

The Old Drws-y-coed Copper Mine, Dyffryn Nantlle, 1961. By Geoff Charles.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/6835498183/

 

Happy New Year!

 

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Mummer’s Parade on New Year’s Day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By Carol Highsmith, 1/1/2011.

Last New Year’s Day, January 1, 2011, Carol Highsmith photographed the Mummers’ parade in Philadelphia, PA. This is just one of her gloriously colorful photos from that event in the Carol Highsmith Archive of the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Just follow the link above to her archive and enter “new year.”

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Same parade, 102 years before the one pictured above.

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LC-USZ62-58961. 1908

LC-DIG-ggbain-15029. ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

By Udo Keppler. LoC Summary: Illustration shows waiters Joseph G. Cannon and James S. Sherman turning away a man labeled “Average Citizen” and a woman at the “Hotel Prosperity” dining room because all the tables have been reserved; there are signs on the tables that read “Reserved for Wool Interests, Reserved for Coal Trust, Reserved for Steel Trust, Reserved for Senator Aldrich and Party, Reserved for Cold Storage Interests, Reserved for Sugar Trust, Reserved for Ice Trust, [and] Reserved for Franchise Grabbers”. Illus. in: Puck, v. 66, no. 1713 (1909 December 29)

 

All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Day of the Dead

November 1 and 2, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, or in Mexico and other parts of the world, the Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos, are the inspiration for this post featuring images from the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas. LC-DIG-ppmsc-04553

Calavera del drenaje. El mérito día de finados todos los que se restiraron por causa del drenaje. LC-DIG-ppmsc-04464

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A Heap of bones in the cemetery [Necropolis Cristobal Colon], Havana. LC-D4-21573

Decorated gravemarker on All Saints’ Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Note the beaded ornament, which is made of wire and beads. Photo by Lee Russell, 1938. LC-USF33-011892-M4

Statue on grave in Cities of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Carol Highsmith.  LC-DIG-highsm-04806

Mexico, mummies in basement of church, Mexico City, between 1908 and 1919.  LC-DIG-npcc-19740

Football!

Fall football images from the Library of Congress, leading off with two by Carol Highsmith:

Head coach Gene Chizik leads the Auburn Tigers football team onto the football stadium for the 2010 Auburn-South Carolina game, Auburn, Alabama. LC-DIG-highsm-11541

And if I have a shot of Auburn University, I need one of the University of Alabama, as well:

University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. LC-DIG-highsm-06883

Football and cars seem to have always gone together. This picture was taken in 1939 by Marion Post Wolcott:

Cars parked along the highways on day of Duke-Carolina football game, near Duke University Stadium. LC-USF34-052649-D

Who would think this a picture taken in the stands at a football game?

Ethel Roosevelt, in stands at football game. LC-DIG-ggbain-03024

I can’t decide if this looks like fun or just stupid:

Washington Redskins start training. Washington, D.C. Aug. 28. He-man exercise took the place of calisthenics today as the Redskins, Washington's entry in National Professional Football League, started training. The boys "flying thru the air" are, left to right: Millner (Notre Dame), Rentner (Northwestern) and Peterson (West Virginia) Wesleyan) 8/28/37. LC-DIG-hec-23282

Nothing much has changed since Frank A. Nankivell drew this illustration for the cover of the November 14, 1906 Puck magazine of  “the sun wearing a football helmet, beaming rays onto a football shaped planet that shows a stadium with fans in the grandstands and a football game in progress; also shows, in the background, an outline of a young woman’s head.”

The college world. LC-DIG-ppmsca-26112

Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs, Library of Congress: 2. The Land.

These images are from the Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs at the Library of Congress, described in my last post.

Rainbow in the mountains of Lachung, Sikkim. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30228

Sikkim, dry season, rice terraces. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30789

Rice terraces during dry season, Sikkim. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30792 (

Building in the mountains of Lachung, Sikkim. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30809

Tsongmo Lake, along the Nathu La Pass, Sikkim. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30136

Primula flowers at Pemayangtse in western Sikkim. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30105

Bridge, North Sikkim near Tibet. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30892

Mount Kānchenjunga, third highest mountain in the world. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30100