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New York Public Library

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Member since 2008
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October 2009
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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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The last upload was October 2009.

The supreme triumph of a popular song -- its hand-organ appe... uploaded October 2009
[Banjo players.] uploaded October 2009
[Man playing the tuba.] uploaded October 2009
Mexican inaugural party musicians, 1921. uploaded October 2009
Uganda harp. uploaded October 2009
[Serenaders.] uploaded October 2009
[Music ensemble with piano and bowed stringed instruments.] uploaded October 2009
Isham Jones and his orchestra. uploaded October 2009
Music classes, Plaza Music Center, 912 Union St., Bklyn, 4/2... uploaded October 2009
[Woman holding lyre.] uploaded October 2009
Mandolin girl. uploaded October 2009
[Woman playing the piano.] uploaded October 2009
[Female musicians, India.] uploaded October 2009
Home life in Japan. uploaded October 2009
Home life in Japan. uploaded October 2009

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Ruth St. Denis in first costume for Radha. Bust portrait.

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8 older comments, and then…
sharikakumar said:
hey tats indian
Tibbi S. said:
beautiful
Ricardo Liberato said:
The title has a typo: Portrait vs. Protrait
New York Public Library said:
Thanks liber! This information has been forwarded to NYPL's Digital Collections dept., and the metadata will be corrected. -Joe, NYPL Digital Experience Group
Fresh Mice said:
Lovely!

Mexican inaugural party musicians, 1921.

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8 older comments, and then…
oz said:
" We will smile more after some tequila"
✠ drakegoodman ✠ said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Background People, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
cheerful wheel said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fascination Nostalgia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Nostalgic Car said:
nice job!! Good pic.
Alessandro Scetta said:
woowwwwwwwwwww this pics in so beautiful!

[Greek woman.]

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Priit Halberg said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called folk costumes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Andrew Theodotou said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Greek Dance, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Kate Londagin said:
Her name is Theano Sotriou Pappasoteriou, Greek spelling "Θεανώ Παπασωτηρίου". She arrived at Ellis Island from Salamis, Salamína Island, Greece on 3 Jun 1909 with the youngest 4 of her 7 children. She was 47 in this photo. Her husband "Sam" Soterios Papasoteriou was waiting for her in California, where their family has prospered ever since. You can find more about this Greek woman in Louis Takács book "LET ME GET THERE: Visualizing Immigrants, Transnational Migrants & U.S. Citizens Abroad, 1914-1925" published in 2021.