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

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Sign, Jockey's Ridge Mini-Golf, Nags Head, North Carolina (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2020
Von yedem Polkuttel insonderheit from National Library of Medicine uploaded June 2019
Octopus Car Wash, Minneapolis, Minnesota (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2017
British Library digitised image from page 159 of "Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year, etc" from British Library uploaded June 2016
British Library digitised image from page 215 of "The Children's Fairy History of England ... With two hundred original illustrations by E. Marillier ... Ancient Britain to Edward I" from British Library uploaded June 2016
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 uploaded February 2014
British Library digitised image from page 120 of "A Popular History of the United States from the first discovery of the western hemisphere ... to the end of the first century of the union of the States. Preceded by a sketch of the pre-historic period and from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 129 of "Two Knapsacks in the Channel Islands ... Illustrated by V. Prout" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 516 of "The Sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 305 of "The British Miscellany: or, coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, etc. vol. I, vol. II" from British Library uploaded November 2013
Cleansing the wharves from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded July 2012
On Saturday, schoolboys from Lanai City go out to dive for octopus--a delicacy which represents good money if sold to local markets, October 1973 from U.S. National Archives uploaded May 2012
Young boy stares at a small octopus at the Miami Seaquarium from Florida Memory uploaded April 2009
Mammoth and Giant Octopus from The Field Museum Library uploaded April 2009
Smithsonian Institution Building, West Wing, c 1903 from Smithsonian Institution uploaded June 2008

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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.

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

34 older comments, and then…
bosetsu said:
Just a few miles down the road from here. The land still looks much like this, but with more trees. It's odd to see such an old photo that (other than the horse and buggy) could've been taken yesterday on just about any rural road a few miles from here.
meateor said:
It's a shame there are JPG compression artifacts on these photos. And maybe some unsharp mask artifacts as well? Hey government worker, wake up.
Dale Puch said:
Check the Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33874 for the link to the original LOC page for this. From there you can get the 42MB TIFF if you really feel the quality of this isn't up to snuff.
dentist_tx said:
Thank you so much for engaging the Library of Congress in the new age of photo sharing. It is much appreciated by this citizen and I'm sure by many others. The LOC is one of the few stops in Washington I have yet to visit, and this gives me a window into what I've been missing. I can't wait to see the real thing next time I'm in DC.
roderickbodine said:
There is no sense of motion in the photo. The cart appears to be stopped. Perhaps for photographic reasons?

Mammoth and Giant Octopus

from The Field Museum Library

5 older comments, and then…
Hart Noecker said:
Mortal enemies in the wild, best of friends in captivity.
Total Kamok said:
go for the roof octo !
Exclusive Bear said:
Is that the same Octopus that is hanging in the "What is an Animal?" exhibit at the Field Museum today?
Peter D. Tillman said:
That Octo is one creepy-looking critter. Added to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Columbian_Expos... Thanks for posting these!
Virginia Weir said:
I have a pre-columbian embroidary that hung in the Chicago World's Fair. It was given to my Great Grandfather by Arlon Higginbothem of Joliet Il. How would I get it appraised? It still has the original fair tags.