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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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!

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

Negro laborers sitting around in front of a fire on Saturday...

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