January 17, 2008

Library of Congress posts 3000+ pictures on Flickr "Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist."
posted by VertexOfLife 16 years ago
  • Congress* damnit =P
  • oooooooooooooooooooooo!
  • double ooooooooooooooooooooooo!
  • Such vanity -- how many photos of the Library of Congress does anyone really need? Just kidding of course, this is great. It's particularly ooh-ahh-some to see all the color photos dating from before WWI (reminded me of this post from a while back)... well, obviously they didn't live their lives in black and white, but contrasted with most of the visual media that survive from that era it makes a distinct impression.
  • Drat, on closer inspection, those dates are the photographers' birth years. The prewar shots all seem to be from Kansas rather than from Oz.
  • I only got to page 53 before my brain exploded, but some of the pictures, particularly of the WWII industrial stuff, should have been mammoth, Rembrandt-ish paintings with all the light and dark elements playing off each other. And the presence of women working in jobs that would have been men-only before the war was nicely done.
  • I only got to page 53 before my brain exploded, but some of the pictures, particularly of the WWII industrial stuff, should have been mammoth, Rembrandt-ish paintings with all the light and dark elements playing off each other. And the presence of women working in jobs that would have been men-only before the war was nicely done.
  • Ops.
  • Quite the scatter-shot brain asplode, path! :D This is fantastic; I seem to recall the archives at their own site were a bit tough to navigate (or am I confusing it with a different one?)
  • Oh, this is so flippin' bookmarked it ain't funny.
  • Finally! A picture of my maternal grandmother! Ook! Ook! Bravo, and kudos, to the Library of Congress. This is a day-killer...
  • Yep, a proper old skool bookmarkin' Thanks for the link VoL.
  • For real, SMT? And does it say "the whole darnd family"?
  • OK, I get the monkey link. Never mind. It's still cool to see color pics from the 1940's, ough. Most pictures I ever see from that era are black and white.
  • Nifty FPP.
  • These are fantastic, thanks for the link!