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United States Library of Congress uploads thousands of pictures onto Flickr account
dvice.com ^
| 01/21/08
| Kevin Hall
Posted on 01/22/2008 1:55:50 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
The Library of Congress is archiving a considerable volume of photos on the photo sharing site Flickr from the annals of American history.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
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Its Flickr account already has over 3,000 pictures, in both black and white, and the welcome page of the account invites users to comment on, and add tags to, the photos to help the Library of Congress bolster what is historically known about them.
http://flickr.com/commons
To: PetroniusMaximus
Wow sweet. Gonna have to bookmark their account.
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posted on
01/22/2008 1:58:07 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
To: PetroniusMaximus
forget "ping for later", I just "bookmark(ed) for later"!
Nice!
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posted on
01/22/2008 1:59:58 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Geek Squad -- if you're desperate and don't need a PC for over a month, we'll get around to it.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Love this one
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:02:29 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
To: Domandred
To: PetroniusMaximus
Excellent, most excellent.
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:31:25 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PetroniusMaximus
That is a sweet link. Definitely saved. Never know when some authentic American history needs to be loaded to the desktop. I can always use the inspiration.
Thanks!
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:35:08 PM PST
by
BelegStrongbow
(what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
To: Pharmboy
ping to announcement ... don’t know how many are for our era of interest, perhaps pictures of paintings or WPA pics of old battlefields.
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:40:14 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: PetroniusMaximus
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:42:26 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: PetroniusMaximus
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posted on
01/22/2008 2:57:30 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
What a resource!
Thanks for posting.
To: andyandval
I could and likely will spend hours here.
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posted on
01/22/2008 3:29:07 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
(To Join or leave the offical Ron Paul 'let freedom' Ping, Freepmail me.)
To: CJ Wolf
Me too.
Nice pic by the way. :)
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