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We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation We are so excited to welcome our newest Flickr Commons members Boston Public Library and Archives at NCBS! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Today is World Brain Day established by the World Federation of Neurology in 2014. This year's theme is Brain Health for All Ages. Enjoy your brain today and these brainy images from Flickr Commons! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Jessamyn West, Flickr Commons Community Manager, chats with Flickr user Sarah Beaupre (wakethesun) about her extensive practice in cataloging animals across Flickr Commons images. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Make Pride 365! Come through LSE Library with these vintage buttons from the Hall-Carpenter Archives, 1970s-1980s. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation For Juneteenth, we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews (1976–1981). Supported by The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Sunday, May 18th was International Museum Day so we thought it was a great time to introduce a new addition to Flickr Commons. The Flickr Foundation is thrilled to welcome Auckland War Memorial Museum to Flickr Commons. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation The Navy Nurse Corps is comprised of more than 2,500 active duty and reserve nurses in over 20 specialties who provide care or support patient care to the US Navy and Marine Corps, their families, and retirees. Here is an album with 250 photos with no known copyright restrictions spanning the history of Navy Medicine. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "These designs are among 18 ornamental patterns and decorative objects based on Kunstformen der Natur, the biologist Ernst Haeckel’s book of sketches of microscopic organisms." part of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Design by Architects album npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation A warm welcome to our newest Flickr Commons Member, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. They are one of the oldest museums in Aotearoa New Zealand. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation From our Flickr Commons member, the National Library of Ireland. Congrats! 🎇 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Russell Lee’s 1946 coal survey photographs tell the story of laborers who helped build the nation, a moment when the government took stock of their wellbeing, and a photographer who recognized their humanity. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation One of the things the Field Museum (Chicago, US) displayed from its collection in 1898 was a "Moon Model." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "For most of its 250-year history, the US Navy planned, built, and manned hospitals for its sailors. This album shows a selection of 250 of the best or most interesting historical images of them. The album starts with the first permanent hospital at Portsmouth, VA and then proceeds in alphabetical order." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Our Flickr Commons Explorer now has a "show me some random photos" feature. You never know what you'll find! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation In March, read the books you've always meant to read. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "When we explore the social life of photographs we find that serendipity can be a large factor in people’s re-engagement with the context surrounding a photograph, a way to bring older photographs back to life. We see this regularly on Flickr Commons and even more so since the Commons Explorer’s Conversations view lets anyone see what people are saying about the photographs in Flickr Commons." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation It is hard to be humble when you are this good at speed skating. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation A very very happy 21st birthday to Flickr.com. 🎂 🎉 🌅 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation No idea what these goofs from 1897 were doing. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation For our sixteenth birthday we highlighted some of the photographers and the photographs of photographers (taken by themselves, or other photographers). We're sharing it again for World Photography Day. All images have no known copyright restrictions, feel free to re-share. Enjoy! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Happy World Photography day! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Are you in or from Halifax? Do you think you'd recognize a church from there? Halifax Municipal Archives has a few photos which could use identifying, starting here. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation You can now see Flickr Commons photos on a map if they have location metadata. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation The Library of Congress, our first Flickr Commons partner has hit over 500,000,000 views. So happy to be on this journey with you. Here's to another 500,000,000. 🥂 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "Last week, the Backfillr Bot completed its millionth update [on Wikimedia Commons], and we guesstimate we will be able to operate on another 13 million files." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "I am the kid on the big wheel..." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Flickr.com has made a fun video celebrating twenty years of photography on Flickr. You'll see a lot of Flickr Commons photos in there! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation It's been a while since we've changed our profile header image. This one is another one with "training" in the title, from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives with the title "Astronaut training." Zoom! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "Telephones used to have a singular purpose - making a call! They mostly stayed in place - on a table, a desk, a wall, or even inside a phone booth on the side of the road. Take a look back at images of all kinds of phones in the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "Chinese migrants, mostly from Guangdong Province, arrived in north Queensland in large numbers in the wake of the Palmer River gold rush of the 1870s... npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Enjoy this bonus February Leap Day! We've made a small gallery of jumping, leaping, bounding photos you can share. 🦘 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Today in the US is Presidents Day, a sort of nebulous holiday celebrating the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. These two presidents were born about 70 years apart, Washington before the advent of photography and Lincoln afterwards. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Our Flickr Commons Explorer now features a Commons-specific search! 🔎 💪 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation The newly-formed Flickr Foundation is hiring its first-ever Archivist. Deadline to apply is 31 January 2024. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation @npub1hyk…3p33 Thanks friend. It's been a fun birthday so far. We built a new front end to Flickr Commons content so people can play around more with the data. Just a day of wonders all around. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Today is the 16th birthday of the Flickr Commons! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Today's the day, Flickr Commons' sixteenth birthday! 🎉 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation @npub1kvn…hm73 Happy birthday! Ours is tomorrow. Here's a Flickr Commons photo set for you. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Flickr Commons turns 16th on the 16th and we won't say all of what we're planning but there may be a blog post about historical cat photographs. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Another Round of Mystery Photos from the Library of Congress npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Gearing up to the 16th birthday of the Flickr Commons in less than two weeks. With millions of photos in the Commons and more coming in (nearly) every day it's hard to pick favorites. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Happy Public Domain Day! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Friend of the Flickr Foundation, Hathi Trust, has 66,000 items that will enter the public domain in the US tomorrow, including 46,829 titles that will be available for readers globally. See what's becoming available. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation The Flickr Foundation oversees the continued nurturing of the Flickr Commons "A unique collection of historical photography from over 100 cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known copyright restrictions." npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation @npub12f7…lkxh Very distinctive, right? Apparently this place closed in 2019 but it's both still-there and not-still there. An interesting story. https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/2023/09/25/why-did-bedrock-city-close/70846625007/ npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Meet the Flickr Foundation's first ever research fellow, Jenn Phillips-Bacher. She's been a web editor, project manager, reference librarian, content strategist, and technology trainer. She also Has Opinions about hot dogs. More about Jenn, in her own words. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation @npub1alq…mnj6 @npub1h27…kn3x We also miss GNE! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation We were a little confused why this Introduction to University Programme career workshop photograph from 1992 was the most-viewed Flickr Commons image on Wikimedia Commons last month until we looked a little closer and realized it showed a sixteen year old Cillian Murphy. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Betty Broadbent was the most photographed tattooed lady of the 20th century. Here she is along with some photos of tattoo artist Fred Harris from PIX magazine in 1938. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation @npub1hyk…3p33 Awwww hey thanks for sharing, and hello from the Flickr Foundation. 👋 npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Sometimes you just want to look at some colorful "no known copyright" endpapers. Feel free to reuse! npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation "since 2015, 50,000 maps have been found and tagged by humans, and machines working alongside each other... They’ve all been georeferenced and are now being added back into the British Library catalogue as individual collection items" npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Washington DC was delineated by a series of stones placed one mile apart beginning in 1791. The DAR put up fencing to preserve the remaining stones in 1916. Here are a few photos of these stones c. 1920. And if you're nerdy like we are, a whole website dedicated to them is absolutely required reading. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Our Flickypedia blog post. npub120t6vh0uzruwjpem0eqm98gluntl5cz4spjatcvtwjfdwp4ktvzqvxpuxe Flickr Foundation Hello! 👋
