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2022

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[Unidentified sailor in Union uniform and sennit hat with unidentified civilian] from Randolph Historical Society uploaded November 2025
[Unidentified nurse on the staff of Chesapeake Hospital, Hampton, Virginia] from Randolph Historical Society uploaded November 2025
220 Years of the Library of Congress--from cards to computers, recording and retrieving information for all (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2020
220 Years of the Library of Congress--cataloging for the nation (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2020
Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2016
Happy 8th Birthday, Flickr Commons! 7 days to go (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2016
Mt. Clemens flying field (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2015
[William "Pol" Perritt, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2015
Identified! [9-lens aerial mapping camera made by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. It was built under the direction of Capt. O.S. Reading in 1935] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2015
Gen. C.L. McCawley (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded July 2015
On AMIRAL AUBE (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2015
Police Patrol (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2015
Police Patrol (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2015
Rudolph De Cordova & wife (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded August 2014
Cornelia McL.Curtis (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2013

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On AMIRAL AUBE (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Art Siegel said:
"The French cruiser Amiral Aube was an armored cruiser of the Gloire class that was built for the French Navy in the early 1900s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Amiral_Aube www.worldnavalships.com/amiral_aube.htm fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiral_Aube According to this article, she was docked at Pier 9 in the North (Hudson) River while in New York in May, 1917 [Rector and West Streets]: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1917-05-07/ed-... A different Bain photo of an acrobatic sailor from the Amiral Aube ran in the New York Tribune, May 13, 1917 with the caption: "A French sailor-acrobat. He is one of the crew of the cruiser Amiral Aube, which docked at New York last week, and is proving here that he is as dexterous atop the machine-gun as behind it." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-05-13/ed-... A similar shot taken from above ran in the South Bend news-times., May 05, 1917 with the caption: "A deck scene on board the French cruiser Amiral Aube. which put in to New York after escorting to American shores the ship that brought Gen. Joffre and the French war mission. The Amiral Aube is the first warship of the allies to put in at New York since the outbreak of the war." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87055779/1917-05-05/ed-... The Evening star. (Washington, D.C.) , May 13, 1917, ran a photo of the ship with the caption: "French cruiser Admiral Aube, first allied fighter to come into New York harbor since United States entered the war." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1917-05-13/ed-...
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks Art Siegel, we'll update this catalog record and the ones for the 3 other similar photos.

Identified! [9-lens aerial mapping camera made by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. It was built under the direction of Capt. O.S. Reading in 1935] (LOC)

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8 older comments, and then…
Chris Walter said:
Looks like it meant to take a 360-degree photograph.... actually 8 photographs of 8 mirrors.
Tim Evanson said:
The lenses are 6-inch wide angle "Xpres" lenses made by Ross (based in London, UK).
Kilted Cowboy said:
this was actually the first iteration of Daleks for the 1914 stage play "Dr Who"
Art Siegel said:
related to www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013011206/resource/ I think this is the same camera, seen from the other side.
swanq said:
The most similar thing I have found is in www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIV/5-W16/papers/PanoWS_Dresd... See fig 20 for an aerial panorama camera.

Police Patrol (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Art Siegel said:
Described in Motor Boating magazine for May, 1917 as a 43 x 9 foot Seabury Scout turned over to the NYPD by A.D. Brixby of New York. books.google.com/books?id=ZOt1f29Ct9oC&pg=PA15&lp...
Justin Bower said:
in this picture and the other of the same boat, the gentleman seems to be very intently aiming a machine gun that has no ammo belt hooked up to it.
Art Siegel said:
Another photo of Bluecoat in action, from the May, 1917 issue of The Rudder, with the caption: "Police Harbor Patrol Boat Bluecoat Built by the Gas Engine and Power Company 55 Ft Long 9 Ft Breadth Power 125 HP Speedway Speed 19 Miles " books.google.com/books?id=mS0jAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP12&lp...
Art Siegel said:
A newspaper photo from April 11, 1917, with the caption "'Bluecoat, 'New Police Patrol Boat, Showing RapidFire Gun onDeck" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1917-04-11/ed-...