• Home
• Tags

octopus

11 photos and 8 illustrations tagged octopus, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

Where were these photos & illustrations tagged?

Show photos10% of these photos & illustrations are geotagged.

Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• publicdomain
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• pubplacelondon
• vol0
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• large
• small
• fish
• tentacles
• sherlocknet:tag=history
• fauna
• sherlocknet:tag=differ
• sherlocknet:tag=year
• sherlocknet:tag=land
• sherlocknet:tag=hand
• sherlocknet:tag=thick
• sherlocknet:tag=family
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• date1897
• lobster
• people

Members using this tag

• British Library 7 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The Field Museum Library 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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

Young boy stares at a small octopus at the Miami Seaquarium

from Florida Memory

• Vintage Roadside said:

  Thanks again for sharing these fantastic images.

British Library digitised image from page 28 of "A Thousand Miles of Wandering along the Roman Wall, the Old Border Region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale [A reissue of pt. 2 of 'Two Thousand Miles of Wandering in the Border Country, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale'

from British Library

• Wendy: said:

  a beautiful design-thankyou for posting!

SALEM [i.e. SALMON], GRAYLING, TARPON, OCTOPUS, and BONITA (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Jeb Boyt said:

  USS Octopus C-1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_C-1_(SS-9) USS Tarpon C-3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_C-3_(SS-14) USS Bonita C-4: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_C-4_(SS-15) USS Grayling D-2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Grayling_(SS-18)

• swanq said:

  Date on glass negative is 10/28/11. During October 1911, over 100 naval ships assembled in New York for a Naval Review by the President of the United States (Theodore Roosevelt). See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9905E6DC1539E333A... and the PDF it points to. It lists these submarines among the vessels to be present. Salem is the warship in the background. Many of the photos of naval vessels in this batch of Bain photos were probably taken around New York during October or early November 1911. However, there was also a Naval Review in New York the following year.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks for pinning down the date and the event! The "Salem" may be a sub called the "Salmon" and the ship in the background may be the Nebraska, according to comment with www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162989549/

• Jim Rees said:

  The three on the left are D-class subs. There were only three in this class, so these have to be Narwhal, Grayling, and Salmon. The three on the right are C-class, which includes Tarpon, Octopus, and Bonita, as well as Stingray and Snapper which apparently couldn't make it that day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_C_class_submarine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_D_class_submarine I spoke too soon, looks like Stingray and Snapper were tied up on the other side. I suspect there's a limit to how many subs can be lined up at once. Note the negatives are both labeled 2335, so probably taken at the same event. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163790206/

• Kilted Cowboy said:

  given the lack of line up number between the BB funnels, this is most likely the 1911 event.