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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

Conversations

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Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street, Manhattan.

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Gavin Veasey said:
dang, amazing view.
Ameer Hamza said:
class act.
Rhetorical Fact said:
impressive!
côtedeboeufsauceechalotte said:
hallucinant !!! c'est bête à dire mais c'est vraiment hallucinant !
Cautious River said:
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.

Blind street musicians, West Memphis, Arkansas, Sept. 1935.

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12 older comments, and then…
pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Chris Bouldin said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Rock City and the rest of Arkansas, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
iwillglo said:
amazing photos!
El universo está lleno de buenas noticias - said:
love the violin
J. Colerangle said:
his music acts as his eyes to the world