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The Library of Congress has a flickr account! [via metafilter] With awesome photos from their archives! And no copyright restrictions!
I'm their new biggest fan.
From your favorite federal institution's flickr profile:
Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress.
We invite your tags and comments! Identifying information is also appreciated–many of our old photos came to us with very little description.
How sweet!
Some notable NYC photos:
The New York Public Library on opening day.
And, unbelievably enough, a photo of orphans being driven to Coney Island. "In Autos," the photo caption notes. Autos!!!
Library of Congress, accept my love. You're my newest flickr contact.
Lorna said,
Oh, I wish Flickr wasn't blocked at work so I could see these photos NOW!!!
Thanks for pointing out the link.
comment posted on January 17, 2008 at 9:34
lauren said,
Try unblockanything.com. The page will load mad slow, but it works for anything our censorware blocks except sites that require a login (facebook, myspace).
comment posted on January 17, 2008 at 9:45
kenspeckle » halp! site iz taken over by kitteh! said,
[...] since the LOLified version of my last over-excited post is actually disturbingly similar to the version not actually written by a [...]
comment posted on January 17, 2008 at 21:10
kenspeckle » natural history observes itself said,
[...] recent memory, the Library of Congress went and got itself a flickr account, then the Smithsonian had to get one too, and the New York Public Library's [...]
comment posted on July 28, 2008 at 21:29