New York Public Library

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Greetings The New York Public Library is delighted to be joining the Flickr Commons and to rub digital shoulders with the other illustrious institutions participating here. Flickr is among the most lively and innovative social media communities on the Web, with millions of users capturing and describing the photographic present. The Commons project brings a fresh infusion of material from the past, images spanning the entire history of photography carefully preserved and served up digitally by the world's leading libraries, archives and museums. We strongly believe that projects like Flickr Commons extend the NYPL's mission to spread knowledge and spur self-education, bringing us into contact with new publics, and engaging our existing users in a new environment.

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[Guadeloupean woman.]

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  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Patricia Page Leandersson said:
    Thank you for this, I just love old pictures, my grandmother was born 5 years later!
  • fallacious cars said:
    So much dignity and elegance in her face. She is very beautiful. I wish I could see her clothing in color.
  • Daniel Wold said:
    Regal in her bearing, grace and beauty her adornments. Thanks
  • Marco Antonio Sampaio Esteves said:
    O povo negro é lindo
  • honeypieLiving said:
    beautiful

[Russian Cossacks.]

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  • dancypants said:
    These look like Georgian costumes to me.
  • kolya v said:
    Hi. I assume they are Russian Cossacks either from the Terek or Kuban Hosts. Cossacks from the Caucausus region adopted the way of dress of many of the local tribesman. Especially the "cherkeska", which is was worn by primarily by the Circassians and the Chechens, but also the Georgians. Sort of like American frontiersmen (Daniel Boone) adopting much of the dress of the Native Americans and American cowboys copying the Mexican saddles, the lasso, and the wide brimmed hats.
  • hs. said:
    circassians !!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassians
  • mikescottnz said:
    Turkic peoples ?
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Interior of school on Mileston Plantation; School begins ver...

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