Five stewardesses in work outfits occupy five adjacent phone booths smiling while making phone calls.
How we used to make phone calls in airports. From the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons.
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âThreading Ephemeralâ: Oreoluwaâs fellowship reflections.
"[S]o much of my work and stewardship is deeply embedded in their trust of me to carry their stories with me and to share within our family. This research fellowship has in fact always been about us/them/us!"
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Read our blog post and research report that we did with 2400 Flickr members discussing digital legacy planning: Death is Not an Edge Case.
"[W]hat happens to those photographs, and to the people who made them, is a question worth taking seriously."
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The Calgary Motorcycle Club will be 100 years old this year. Please enjoy these photos of its early days.
Yes it's more from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons.
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#photography #motorcycles #Calgary
Black and white photo of a woman in a bathing suit standing with a rifle at a product display for tires from Edmonton Tire Company. There is fake turf under her and two fake ducks.
Black and white photo of a billboard with a woman eating a hamburger and smiling as her hair whips around her. The caption reads "Swing to gas, it's the savingest" there is a couple dancing some new=fangled dance in the background.
Black and white image of a woman in a sparkly spandex bodysuit holding a very sparkly helmet standing in front of an industrial blower for a furnace of some kind
How we used to sell tires.
How we used to sell natural gas.
How we used to sell furnaces.
From the Provincial Archives of Alberta on Flickr Commons
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An Itinerant Teacher's car, which has travelled many thousand miles in carrying out the instruction of out-back children.
From the State Library of Queensland, on Flickr Commons
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#photography #queensland
Two men in a wooden building with a large log that has been partially sawn, The pulleys and the belts which help the sawmill run are visible at the edges of the photo.
Two men in a wooden building standing near a very large blade which has no guards or anything on it. the caption at the top of the image reads 1917.
Sawmill photos from Ontario in the early 1900s. From the Cloyne and District Historical Society, on Flickr Commons. #Flickr #photography #Ontario
Black and white photo of a man in a hospital bed attached to an IV talking with two women while another younger woman smiles directly into the camera
Black and white photo of four people sitting in wooden chairs in front of a fireplace. The man on the left, governor of Maine, is wearing a suit, the man on the right is wearing a naval uniform. The two women in the center are wearing dark dresses and one is fingerselling into the hand of the other.
Helen Keller (2nd from left in both) spent two days in 1945 visiting men at the US Naval Hospital in Kittery, Maine with her secretary Polly Thompson.
#Flickr #Photography
The State of Social Media #Archiving (A New Research Report From the @flickrfdn.bsky.social) www.flickr.org/a-new-resear... #socialmedia #archives #libraries
"A selection of love inspired images from British Library's digitised 19th Century books, surfaced by the fantastic work of people who have been tagging these by hand!"
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#valentine #flickr
Maybe sometimes you want to participate in a two-person sport where you're not quite so... close together. Consider the Steinhoff Bobsled. It's even got a light!
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Whoops, tagging @cadllocalhistory.bsky.social whose project this is. Thank you!
Photograph of Lansing's Green Mile Meds, a small corrugated metal building with graffiti on the site with the name of the shop in large colorful stylized letters.
Not all historical photos are from the early days of photography. This album taken two years before the state of Michigan legalized recreational marijuana shows many dispensaries and growing operations some of which came and went very rapidly
#photography #marijuana
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"This is one of the last three intact windmills in Ireland of a type known as a Tower Mill... built by Nicholes Moran in 1846 and was re-thatched in 1908. Used up till 1936, it was re-constructed in 1952."
Context for a windmill pic from the Natl Library of Ireland.
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If you haven't been there in a while, check out the Commons Explorer which has a number of different ways to look at the collection.
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"While the primary aim of his lectures was to make astronomical and meteorological discoveries accessible to the public, Wragge increasingly used his magic lantern slides to communicate Theosophical learning."
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Group of young people dancing the hora
two women stand in front of a small airplane smiling at one another. One of them is wearing a pilot outfit
Black and white photo of men staffing a fishmongers cart at a marker. All the men are wearing hats.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong cuts a slice out of a cake while other people look on.
Flickr Commons is eighteen today. We started in 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress and today we're an archive of 1.9 million digital images. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool.
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The slide shows a pink/orange tinted plate depicting two swirling columnar forms with burnt details representing solar explosions 124,000 miles high, a small dark circle in the upper left corner of the plate represents Earth to scale.
The sun, the moon, and spiders. A set of glass "magic lantern" slides from 1922, from Flickr Commons partner Auckland War Memorial Museum TÄmaki Paenga Hira.
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Winter Research Fellow Oreoluwa Ifamodupe Akinyode shares their powerful midpoint reflections in text and audio, accompanied by Adeosun Olamide's photography. Read more at www.flickr.org/oreoluwas-mi...
"With his marriage on the rocks and fearing his wife was having an affair, ex-champion skier Colin Wyatt decided to cope the only way he could think of.
He began stealing rare butterflies."
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A story teased in the Flickr comments...
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super-saturated photograph of a train track somewhere with beinge plateaus right next to it. Two lines of men with tan skin wearing work clothes--overalls and dungarees--are holding crowbars under each track. There are maybe ten men in each line. It's a bright sunny day.
How we used to adjust railroad tracks. Image from SMU, on Flickr Commons.
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Having a ruff day? These images of man's (and everyone's) best friend, which span the centuries and show our canine companions at work and at play, should cheer you right up.
A curated album from Flickr Commons Partner the Library of Congress.
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George Oates helped launch the @flickrfdn.bsky.social to protect the platformâs cultural history.
@rabble.nz reminds us that companies arenât required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and thatâs exactly why models like this matter.
Full episode out now.
Introducing Data Lifeboat beta! We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever.
George Oates, founding executive director of @flickrfdn.bsky.social, is leading the effort to preserve Flickr's history for the next century.
@rabble.nz, creator of diVine, reflects on how much culture disappeared when Vine shut down with no archive to protect it.
Full episode out now.
We hosted a workshop on digital legacy in the social media age at this year's Mozilla Fest. Shout out to some of our festival highlights, who showcased the brilliant work theyâre doing and for teaching us the true spirit of unlearning (this yearâs theme).
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You're welcome, looks like something happened on the flickr.com side that they were able to fix. Cheers!
Hi there -- we were surprised to see this as well, all the images seem to be set to "private". That account has been active and up and running since it was restored (and Flickr.com adjusted how search worked with these sorts of images) in 2022. We'll see if the folks at Flickr.com know anything.
Welcome Eötvös Lorånd University Faculty of Law, our newest Flickr Commons member, our first from Hungary.
Their 4,400 glass slides, used as teaching aids in the instruction of forensic science and forensic photography, were (re)discovered in a basement during Covid
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