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@flickrfdn.bsky.socialOude beroepen / Old fashioned professions from Nationaal Archief, National Archives of the Netherlands
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialPhoto uploaded 2011. Date clarified by random commenter 2026. Metadata updated.
"A quick check of a calendar for the 1890s confirms that the only year in that decade that 2nd August fell on a Monday was 1897."
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThe US National Archives has over 174 photographs of Amtrak operations c. 1974 from photographer Charles O'Rear for the Documerica project
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialAlready got ahold of them. They've forwarded my email to their Archives and we'll see what happens.
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialAnd sometimes you just don't get a lot of metadata so you have to use your own imagination.
"Dick is standing in front of Bolton's Northbrook Hotel with an unknown person in a Hockey Giant puck outfit. It is unclear what the promotion is about."
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialA dog-erreotype (sorry not sorry) which is one of the oldest photographs of a pet in the world, from around 1846.
Read more about it at the Science + Media Museum's blog post, or read the comments on Flickr Commons
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialHi -- yes, let's talk. Can you send an email to [email protected] and we can set something up?
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThanks for the report, I'll see if there's some permissions thing on the back end that is causing this. Can you check our other recent blog post here and see if the same thing is happening?
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialHello -- it's possible it may have been a temporary server thing. Can you try doing a shift-reload and see if you can see them? Should look like this.
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThe Flickr Foundation is delighted to welcome the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa as one of our new Flickr Commons members. They’ve added 1500 images to our cultural heritage collection.
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThe "Spruce Girls" were a group of women who wore wood veneer bathing suits to promote the timber industry, circa 1929. The only result for Flickr's woodenbathingsuits tag.
From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, on Flickr Commons
@danmcquillan.bsky.socialReposted by @flickrfdn.bsky.socialThis episode of @melhogan.bsky.social's The Data Fix w/ @eryk.bsky.social is the most grounded discussion of so-called 'rogue AI' I've come across podcastaddict.com/the-data-fix... The algos aren't 'planning' or 'conspiring' but blindly following imitative but meaningless streams of generated text.
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialTextile nerds might enjoy these blanket-making images from the Golden Fleece Woolen Mill (a belt-driven factory) in Magrath, Alberta, around 1940.
Images from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons.
www.flickr.com/photos/alber...
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThe STS-54 crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in their official "gag" photo costumed as the bridge crew of Starship USS Enterprise 1992. From NASA and Flickr Commons.
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialWelcome to our newest Flickr Commons member, the City of Menlo Park (CA) Planning Division. 🎉
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialAutomatic Picture Transmission (APT) enabled meteorologists to obtain immediate local area cloud pattern photographs when the Nimbus satellite was within a 1700-mile range of a receiving station. The APT subsystem pioneered on Nimbus 1, which was launched August 28, 1964. #NASA #photography
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialThe League of American Wheelmen is a cycling advocacy organization founded in 1880. They organized 100-mile day trips to win medals and bragging rights. In the 1890s (like this image, in SF) some did these runs on penny farthings!
@flickrfdn.bsky.socialMany people are familiar with Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies, using early photography to answer questions about how animals (and human animal) moved. I was not, until today, familiar with "chickens; scared by torpedo (1887)"
@flickrfdn.bsky.social@[email protected] Kismet -- we talked to/about Anil and Anil talked about us. Read this great essay about why the Artemis II images are on Flickr.
