Tag: early photography

The Commons on Flickr
The Commons on Flickr

Photography

The Commons on Flickr

The Commons is a division of Flickr set up to share public domain archives with the world. They have partnered with archive powerhouses like the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian Institute to name a few. The project was launched at the beginning of the year and has been wildly successful. Within [...]

Lincoln images rediscovered
Lincoln images rediscovered

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Lincoln images rediscovered

A little piece of history was rediscovered at the Library of Congress. Some previously mislabeled glass negatives were correctly identified as being from Lincoln's inauguration to his second term on March 4, 1865, by Carol Johnson, Library of Congress curator of photography. You can see a good size crowd gathered outside the Capitol building for [...]