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95 photos tagged collections, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

• children
• sunderland
• museum
• blackandwhitephotograph
• northeast
• newcastleupontyne
• tyneandwear
• twam
• tyneandweararchivesandmuseums
• oldphotographs
• oldphotos
• northeastofengland
• unitedkingdom
• blind
• adults
• johnalfredcharltondeas
• charltondeas
• handlingsessions
• sunderlandmuseum
• touch
• see
• objects
• access
• curator

Members using this tag

• North East Museums 41 photos
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 27 photos
• Liberas 16 photos
• Smithsonian Institution 3 photos
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 3 photos
• The Library of Congress 1 photo
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 1 photo
• Florida Memory 1 photo
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo

Conversations

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

Wallace the Lion

from North East Museums

• Ronald Hackston said:

  Wallace is still there in the 21st Century:
  

• David said:

  A Wikipedia entry says Martini Maccomo was attacked by a lion named Wallace during a show in 1869. The lion died 4 years after Maccomo and was bought by Sunderland museum and put on display in 1879.

The Walrus

from North East Museums

• Lyd2006 said:

  This is incredible, how they let the blinds experience musuem in 1920s...

• stefan wood said:

  The fellow right in the back seems especially bewildered.

Soldiers Wear

from North East Museums

• Rebecca Coleman said:

  this series is amazing, and I absolutely love that the museum curator did this. so simple yet so profound.