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Today's vocabulary word: satelloon. Just what it sounds like.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/38212638236/

#photography #NASA

Who lived in South Philly (particularly Pennsport) between 1910 and 1940? These folks, from an album of photographs from John Frank Keith.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library-company-of-philadelphia/albums/72157619882701912/

#photography #philadelphia

Line at late moving picture show which starts between 1:30 and 2 a.m. once a week especially for workers on the swing shift. A photo from 1943 in Buffalo, New York by Office of War Information photographer Marjory Collins

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/55384262222/

#photography #photojournalism #buffalo

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, all of which are available with no known copyright restrictions. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool.

https://commons.flickr.org/

#flickr #photography

"Walter Reed becomes first point-of-care facility to receive FDA clearance for patient-specific implant" In this case, a titanium cranium!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/55399890379

Back when Bay Area Rapid Transit only used to go to Concord, Richmond, Fremont, and Daly City, and people read newspapers on public transportation.

Many more Bay Area Rapid Transit images from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=49487266%40N07&view_all=1&text=bayarearapidtransit

#BART #Photography

Sometimes you just want to look at some colorful "no known copyright" endpapers. Feel free to reuse!

These are all from books published between 1890 and 1930. Scanned by the Bergen Public Library in Norway. #endpapers

Image credit: Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/albums/72157633827993925

Street harpist opposite Mark Hopkins Art Institute. (All remember him.)

From the California Historical Society

https://www.flickr.com/photos/99278405@N04/9358015527/

#SanFrancisco #photography #harp

Four photograph albums created by Frederick Newman, containing photos of his career in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force from 1917 to 1947, highlighting his time fighting in Iraq in the 1920s, as well as his service in WWII.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/albums/72157629974581728/

#photography #Iraq

There are many ways to honor and celebrate May Day. Here are a few.

#photography #MayDay

Carl Rich’s Stratospheric flight suit. It was... not a success.

From the State Library of New South Wales, on Flickr Commons.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/55378709873/

More info: https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/stratospheric-failure-carl-richs-flying-suit/

#photography #flight #NewSouthWales

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."

https://www.flickr.org/death-is-not-an-edge-case/

We talked to @anildash@me.dm about the old internet, the new internet, and how people can use the power of community to resist the commodification of everything. Another world is possible.

https://www.flickr.org/anil-dash/

#blog #interview #OldWeb

How we used to make phone calls in airports. From the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4831317533/

#Photography #pay_telephones

Zimble’s Rubber Chicken: An Overlooked Symbol in a Navy Surgeon General’s Portrait.

https://www.med.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/4538920/zimbles-rubber-chicken-an-overlooked-symbol-in-a-navy-surgeon-generals-portrait/

#portrait #navy

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.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alberta_archives/albums/72177720331636563/

#photography #motorcycles #Calgary

Maybe sometimes you want to participate in a two-person winter sport where you're not quite so... close together. Consider the Steinhoff Bobsled. It's even got a light!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/55094141950/

Grace Sutherland (1854–1946) was part of a singing group, the Seven Sutherland Sisters. Together they had over 36 feet of hair. They toured with Barnum & Bailey and sold hair growing tonic.

From the George Eastman Museum:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2719965307/

More about the sisters:

https://newengland.com/yankee/history/seven-sutherland-sisters/

#photography #hair #circus

The Meltickian Collection documents the Armenian diasporan life in China from 1915 - 1953

https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenianstudies/albums/72157674825876400/

#china #armenia #photography

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

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alberta_archives/albums/72177720317681018/

#Photography #brands

An Itinerant Teacher's car, which has travelled many thousand miles in carrying out the instruction of out-back children.

#photography #queensland
From the State Library of Queensland, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/54984060742/

Sawmill photos from Ontario in the early 1900s. From the Cloyne and District Historical Society, on Flickr Commons.

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCLoJq

#Flickr #photography #Ontario

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

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.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/albums/72157719675193394/

#dogs #photography

"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."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/54955914466/

A story teased in the Flickr Commons comments... read on.

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/museum-heist-70-years-ago-still-causing-flutter-butterfly-science-today

#photography #butterflies

"This is one of the last three intact windmills in Ireland of a type known as a Tower Mill". It was built by Nicholes Moran in 1846 and was re-thatched in 1908. Used up till 1936, it was re-constructed in 1952.

The long arm with a wheel on the end of it was used to turn the conical cap of the mill so that the sails faced the wind. It is a feature common in early windmills."

From a comment adding context to a windmill image from the National Library of Ireland. #flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/55063611254/

"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!"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157640584771663/

#valentine #flickr

How we used to adjust railroad tracks. Image from SMU, on Flickr Commons.

#trains #photography

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/12462979104/

Not all historical photographs are from the early days of photography, this album from Lansing (MI) staff, two years before the state of Michigan legalized recreational marijuana shows many dispensaries and growing operations, some of which came and went very rapidly, marking a very specific moment in time in this community.

#photography #marijuana

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cadl_localhistory/albums/72177720331876774/

‘Threading Ephemeral’: Oreoluwa’s closing reflections on the Fellowship.

"As my ancestors would have it, so 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!"

https://www.flickr.org/threading-ephemeral-oreoluwas-closing-reflections-on-the-fellowship/

"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."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wragge-lantern-slides/

#flickr #photography #weather

The sun, the moon, and spiders. A set of glass "magic lantern" slides from 1922, from Flickr Commons partner Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aucklandmuseum_commons/albums/72177720330692278/

No known copyright restrictions. Make an album cover. Get a new tattoo. Make Solstice cards.

#photography #flickr #Aotearoa

Introducing Data Lifeboat beta! We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever.

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 they’re doing and for teaching us the true spirit of unlearning (this year’s theme).

Read more: https://www.flickr.org/flickr-foundation-at-mozilla-festival/

Winter Research Fellow Oreoluwa Ifamodupe Akinyode shares their powerful midpoint reflections in text and audio, accompanied by Adeosun Olamide's photography. Read more at https://www.flickr.org/oreoluwas-midpoint-reflections/

@shadowfals@toot.cat I'm assuming primitive sunglasses, but no we have no other information.

Too many images of underrepresented people and groups go unidentified in archival collections. For Black History Month in the United States we’re showcasing some of our curated collections which tell the stories of Black experiences.

In this first installment:

- Graduates from the Palmer Institute (NC)
- Mother Waddles and other women interviewed by the Schlesinger Library
- John H White's photojournalism

And more.

https://www.flickr.org/black-history-through-archival-images/
#BlackHistoryMonth #Photography #Flickr #BlackHistory