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Flickr Commons is eighteen today. We started in 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress and today we're an archive of 1.9 million digital images. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool.

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Group of young people dancing the hora two women stand in front of a small airplane smiling at one another. One of them is wearing a pilot outfit Black and white photo of men staffing a fishmongers cart at a marker. All the men are wearing hats. Astronaut Neil Armstrong cuts a slice out of a cake while other people look on.
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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The sun, the moon, and spiders. A set of glass "magic lantern" slides from 1922, from Flickr Commons partner Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

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The slide shows a pink/orange tinted plate depicting two swirling columnar forms with burnt details representing solar explosions 124,000 miles high, a small dark circle in the upper left corner of the plate represents Earth to scale.
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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How we used to adjust railroad tracks. Image from SMU, on Flickr Commons.

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super-saturated photograph of a train track somewhere with beinge plateaus right next to it. Two lines of men with tan skin wearing work clothes--overalls and dungarees--are holding crowbars under each track. There are maybe ten men in each line. It's a bright sunny day.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Introducing Data Lifeboat beta! We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Airline buffs might enjoy the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives' collection of Airline Luggage labels, back from the golden age of airplane travel.

CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp

#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus

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Luggage label showing a plane which has landed on water which has 4 or 5 engines on the top of the plane's wing. Caption reads: Lufthansa Flugshiff "DOX" Passagiergepack Yellow luggage label which is a yellow circle with the word FLY in chunky red letters and the letters KLM right on top of it in thinner black letters. Luggage label which is a blue circle with a DC-10 in the middle flying off over the mountains in the distance. Caption reads: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10 "I like it!" Luggage label which is a horizontally aligned oval which is grey and reads Airbus Industrie on top and A300 on the bottom. In the center is a side view illustration of an airplane with stripes that go the length of the plane which are yellow, orange, red and blue. The plane says "A300" on the tail
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Happy Spooky Season!

We made a gallery with some of our favorite Halloween images on Flickr Commons. You can archive Flickr galleries using Data Lifeboat - give it a try!

Visit datalifeboat.flickr.org today!
Spooky Gallery lives here: flic.kr/y/3QJSNbn
A woman in a black bathing suit, witch’s hat and cape is floating underwater in a natural ocean environment, creating the illusion she is levitating while sitting on a broomstick. A smiling child in a witch’s hat and cape is on top of a broomstick with a Florida license plate attached to the handle reading “ARRIVE ALIVE.” A woman sits next to a skeleton. Both are holding teacups and appear to be in mid-conversation. A child grins while hoisting a pumpkin twice the size of their head onto their shoulder. A stack of equally large pumpkins are in the foreground.
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A technological revolution! This incredible image from the State Library of New South Wales captures a man getting a permanent wave in 1938. It's one of over 1,000 images added to Flickr Commons this week.

Explore more newly added imagery at commons.flickr.org/recent
Image: flic.kr/p/2ryXc9C
A large contraption of wires, plastic and metal components is attached from above to a man's head. With a towel wrapped around his shoulders, the man sits with an unremarkable expression on his face.
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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As part of the launch of the Data Lifeboat, we will be sharing some examples of Data Lifeboats. The Commons 1k Data Lifeboat is a collection of 1,000 of the most liked and talked about images from Flickr Commons.

You can see the full Data Lifeboat and datalifeboat.flickr.org/showcase
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Even great code has some bugs!

Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.

Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
A man in a suit makes an exaggerated - possible exasperated or confused -- facial expression with eyebrows arched and and eyes looking down and to the side. Three children running and smiling in bug-like costumes that include antennae. Transcript: Calling all bug hunters! Data Lifeboat Alpha Release is live!
September 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This photo of Tatiana Riabouchinska as the Golden Cockerel in Le Coq d'or, uploaded by the State Library of New South Wales captures the magic of Colonel de Basil's 'Original Ballet Russe' during their Australian tour. One of our favorites from the 1,469 new photos added to Flickr Commons this week.
A ballerina dressed in a metallic rooster costume squats low to the ground while remaining on point. The photo is captures the ballerinas form directly in profile.
September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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What's happening in this photo? A Flickr member shared a story giving context to this photo uploaded by the National Library of Wales: “I was an apprentice tailor in 1955 and that is how we worked - sitting cross legged on the bench - your knee is perfect for shaping shoulders and collars etc.”
A man sits with legs crossed on top of a work bench next to a window with various tailoring tools on the surface around him. He is working on a piece of fabric shaped over his knee.
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Our humble submission to #caturday comes from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women (@rad-institute.bsky.social) in America on Flickr Commons.
A woman at the turn of the 20th century in black period appropriate dress standing on a street with brick wall holds a long haired white cat.
September 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A poet's "mugshot" from @cabhc.bsky.social and two men keeping watch over a fairy bridge in County Donegal from the @nlireland.bsky.social were among our favorites of the 1,457 new photos this week on Flickr Commons.
Two men in the distance are atop of naturally created rock bridge that connects two sections of land. The coastline of a body of water can be seen through the arch.
September 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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What do canned hammed displays, rodeos, and donut shops have in common? They are all part of the culture and history preserved in the Provincial Archives of Alberta of course.
Five women wearing leotards acrobatically pose visually creating a A-frame pyramid by posing on stacked ladders. An older woman pauses to look at a circular display of canned ham in a grocery store. A group of women and young girls pose for a wedding photo in a period specific living room. The bride is wearing a white wedding gown holding a bouquet of red flowers and is surrounded by her bridesmaids wearing matching blue dresses. The corner storefront sign for Dolly Donut is illuminated at twilight, with a billboard peaking out behind it. A few customers can be seen sitting inside.
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Today is World Brain Day established by the World Federation of Neurology in 2014. This year's theme is Brain Health for All Ages. Enjoy your brain today and these brainy images from Flickr Commons!
poster shows a drawing of a man in uniform, either military or a sea captain, with a light blue and orange fish on his head. He has his hand to his chin as if pondering an idea. Medical illustration showing a human head cutaway with numbers and pines pointing to various parts of it surrounded by words in italian. Drawing of a human brain exposed by retracting the membranes and showing the two cerebral hemispheres separated by the median plane. There is Japanese writing around it
July 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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In our latest blog post, research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.

Image from LSE Library on Flickr Commons.

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A man wearing a suit carrying a stack of books looks at a large bookshelf filled with encyclopedias. Behind him a woman is standing reading a book and another man browses the shelf in the distance.
July 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Make Pride 365! Come through @lselibrary.bsky.social‬ with these vintage buttons from the Hall-Carpenter Archives, 1970s-1980s.
Red badge pin with white text resembling a Coca-Cola logo reading “Gay-Love it’s the real thing” Pink badge pin with a bold graphic arrow pointing up at a diagonal with text reading "Gays Against Nazis" White badge pin with bold red text reading “LESBIANS UNITE.” White badge pin with green silhouette of a limp-wristed foppish man with a hand on his hip reading “Queens rule OK?”
June 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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For Juneteenth we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews. Supported by The Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century.

Photos: Judith Sedwick.

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Etta Moten Barnett, actress, concert artist, and radio personality, smiling and leaning against and open iron gate in front of a stone building. Transcript: Project Spotlight. Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981 on Flickr Commons Mother Waddles, ordained minister, pastor, and published author, smiling mid-dance below a sign for Mother Waddles Medical Center. Pleasant Harrison, accomplished artisan and caregiver, sitting in a home environment, looking into the distance with hands folded on a blue and white patterned table. A group of portraits including Alice Dunnigan, schoolteacher, political activist, and journalist and Zelma Watson George, sociologist, diplomat, and opera singer
Kathleen Adams, teacher and historian. Transcript: Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in American, see the full gallery on Flickr Commons in the link.
June 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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We are just weeks away from the alpha launch of Data Lifeboat, and are feeling GREAT.

Image from State Library of Queensland on Flickr Commons
Vintage photo of a child in a toy car wearing driving goggles, a hat and white lace neck ruffle text overlayed "Rolling into summer like" Upside down vintage photo of a child in a toy car wearing driving goggles, a hat and white lace neck ruffle text overlayed "Rolling into winter like."
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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IDLE CLOAKMAKERS IN MAY DAY PARADE; To Make 5th Ave March Today a Demonstration of Strength and Unity. $500,000 IN STRIKE FUND Manufacturers Tell the Public They Must Be Masters in Their Own Shops and Attack Union.

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1916 parade photos.

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Black and white photograph of people in Chicago dressed in suits and long dressed holding banners which say May Day and a few other things which aren't legible
May 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"These designs are among 18 ornamental patterns and decorative objects based on Kunstformen der Natur, the biologist Ernst Haeckel’s book of sketches of microscopic organisms." part of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Design by Architects album

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#illustration #design
Illustration of a circular object which looks like a Haeckel object on one side and a fancy dinner plate on the other. A colorful pattern in bright blues and oranges and reds mimicking a Haeckel biological drawing. A colorful pattern in bright greens pinks and yellows mimicking a Haeckel biological drawing.
April 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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👋 You might want to try the Commons Explorer which has a decent search and a fun "show me a random image" feature

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From there you can also keyword search images from, among other places, the British Library which also has a lot of scanned books

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an RSU test set which is a metal box with a lot of input jacks for testing stuff, like maybe a few dozen little holes, a few switches and I don't know what any of this stuff is.
March 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"These initiatives are extensions of a broader project developed by the Access in the Making Lab called Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene (MDSSA)." The final research report from our research fellow Prakash Krishnan

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angular photo of the border wall between the US and Mexico
March 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Our Flickr Commons Explorer now has a "show me some random photos" feature. You never know what you'll find!

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#photography #flickr
Screenshot from Flickr Commons Explorer showing six very random images: a greeting card, a historical building, women in gas masks, a man at a desk, a comedic photo of men in a fake boat, and some images from a scrapbook
March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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We are always looking for more Flickr Commons members. Our 2025 outreach plan includes outreach to Africa, South America, and Asia as well as smaller historical societies and archives.

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Let us know if you might be interested

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Two men standing on a wheeled cart in the middle of a field with some apparatus which has four large cones of the type you might see on an old Victrola.
March 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM