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New York Public Library

2,525 photos
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Member since 2008
Last upload was
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

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the C...

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J. Colerangle said:
why are these people inside of a barbed wire cage?
J. Colerangle said:
they are not criminals
Flickr Foundation said:
Thank you for sharing this photo. We've used it in our blog post for Black History Month in 2024 www.flickr.org/black-history-through-archival-images

[Man playing the tuba.]

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16 older comments, and then…
Pat Clou said:
I wish he'd play me "Happy Birthday"!
628! said:
gooddd
Charles H. said:
Mr. Allen! Mr Aaaalleeeen!
mwur1996 said:
Haha THiS iS HALAR!0US.!
NicWest2007 said:
This is not a "man playing the tuba". This is FRED ALLEN playing the tuba.

Uganda harp.

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oz said:
Why do you want to take a picture of my soul?
Evening* said:
Ugandan harp and vocal recorded by Klaus Wachsmann in 1949 ~ via the British Library... sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=025M-C0004X4950XX-0200V0.xml
CusumboSolo DG said:
Interesting historical photos👌👌