Tech The Library of Congress Flickr Stream Is Mighty Fine
posted by on March 21 at 11:05 AM
The Library of Congress is putting all of its public domain photographs on Flickr.
The Prints & Photographs Division takes care of 14 million of the Library’s pictures and features more than 1 million through online catalogs. Offering historical photo collections through Flickr is a welcome opportunity to share some of our most popular images more widely.
As of right now, their account features 3,215 photographs. They want people to go in and tag things, provide historical information, and just participate in a historical group/think. There’s tons of cool ones, like:
German Scientist with a Detective Camera
View Near Baden Baden from a Zeppelin Airship
Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies
The best thing about it is because they are public domain, I am completely free (nay, encouraged!) to do things like this:
That was a fine display of respect, Ari.
I love Ari. Mmmm...
Sweet, thanks for the linkage.
I seriously think that might have been my grandfather
good job
Did you get a load of the load of Greeks boarding Madonna?
I've mentioned it before, but Shorpy.com's feed has a lot of the same type of photos. I like it better because they update it 10+ times a day.
Oh yeah, they edit better, so you don't have to wade through so many mediocre photos.
I think even the Ballard Denny's would look cool from a Zeppelin Airship.
That may be my favorite caption of 2008.
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