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The State of Social Media #Archiving (A New Research Report From the @flickrfdn.bsky.social) www.flickr.org/a-new-resear... #socialmedia #archives #libraries

Valentine's Day 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! Please tag any similar images ...

"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

Steinhoff bobsled, for two people, Caldwell, N.J. (LOC) Bain News Service,, publisher. Steinhoff bobsled, for two people, Caldwell, N.J. [no date recorded on caption card] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data pr...

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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What did the Normans ever do for us? Apparently they gave us a lovely Windmill in Tacumshane in County Wexford. Today's image is from the wonderful Irish Tourist Association collection. At a time when local and folk history is more value...

"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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Flickr Commons Browse a unique collection of historical photography from more than a hundred institutions around the world.

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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A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.

"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 Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

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Oreoluwa's Midpoint Reflections - Flickr Foundation Oreoluwa Akinyode, Flickr Foundation’s Winter Research Fellow, shares their reflections on the Fellowship so far, their experience encountering networked images and familial materials, and hints…

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...

Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806 Colin Wyatt, Sydney, 12 November 1946, by Alec Iverson, film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive. collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGW66XY Colin Wyatt also known as the 'Butterfly Thief' ...

"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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Dog Stars 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. Looking for more dog c...

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 platform’s cultural history.

@rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s 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.

Flickr Foundation at Mozilla Festival - Flickr Foundation Tori and George headed to Mozilla Festival in Barcelona, the annual theme of which was Unlearning, to talk Digital Legacy in the age of social media. Convening a workshop with a fascinating mix of…

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).

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Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online. The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.

You're welcome, looks like something happened on the flickr.com side that they were able to fix. Cheers!

Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online. The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.

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 Loránd University Faculty of Law - Flickr Foundation

Welcome Eötvös Loránd 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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A chat with Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivst - Flickr Foundation

Thank you to the folks at the @flickrfdn.bsky.social for asking me some truly fantastic questions about archiving, the ephemeral nature of digital archiving, and what I've learned from working with Brits. (As ever, Flickr remains the best website on the internet!!!) www.flickr.org/a-chat-with-...

Thank you for talking with us and selecting some of your favorite images.

Luggage label showing a plane which has landed on water which has 4 or 5 engines on the top of the plane's wing. Caption reads: Lufthansa Flugshiff "DOX" Passagiergepack

Yellow luggage label which is a yellow circle with the word FLY in chunky red letters and the letters KLM right on top of it in thinner black letters.

Luggage label which is a blue circle with a DC-10 in the middle flying off over the mountains in the distance. Caption reads: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10 "I like it!"

Luggage label which is a horizontally aligned oval which is grey and reads Airbus Industrie on top and A300 on the bottom. In the center is a side view illustration of an airplane with stripes that go the length of the plane which are yellow, orange, red and blue. The plane says "A300" on the tail

Airline buffs might enjoy the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives' collection of Airline Luggage labels, back from the golden age of airplane travel.

CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp

#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus

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A woman in a black bathing suit, witch’s hat and cape is floating underwater in a natural ocean environment, creating the illusion she is levitating while sitting on a broomstick.

A smiling child in a witch’s hat and cape is on top of a broomstick with a Florida license plate attached to the handle reading “ARRIVE ALIVE.”

A woman sits next to a skeleton. Both are holding teacups and appear to be in mid-conversation.

A child grins while hoisting a pumpkin twice the size of their head onto their shoulder. A stack of equally large pumpkins are in the foreground.

Happy Spooky Season!

We made a gallery with some of our favorite Halloween images on Flickr Commons. You can archive Flickr galleries using Data Lifeboat - give it a try!

Visit datalifeboat.flickr.org today!
Spooky Gallery lives here: flic.kr/y/3QJSNbn

A large contraption of wires, plastic and metal components is attached from above to a man's head. With a towel wrapped around his shoulders, the man sits with an unremarkable expression on his face.

A technological revolution! This incredible image from the State Library of New South Wales captures a man getting a permanent wave in 1938. It's one of over 1,000 images added to Flickr Commons this week.

Explore more newly added imagery at commons.flickr.org/recent
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Welcome Rachel Frick to Our Board! - Flickr Foundation I’m thrilled to join the Flickr Foundation Board, and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and share why this work matters so much to me.

Help us welcome Rachel L. Frick to our Board! Rachel is a digital libraries and cultural heritage leader with over 20 years of experience in transformational leadership, community building, and ensuring equitable access to information and resources.

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LC & Flickr Commons Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images.

New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
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- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

Thank you for spreading the word!

As part of the launch of the Data Lifeboat, we will be sharing some examples of Data Lifeboats. The Commons 1k Data Lifeboat is a collection of 1,000 of the most liked and talked about images from Flickr Commons.

You can see the full Data Lifeboat and datalifeboat.flickr.org/showcase