Having a ruff day? These images of man's (and everyone's) best friend, which span the centuries and show our canine companions at work and at play, should cheer you right up. A curated album from Flickr Commons Partner the Library of Congress. www.flickr.com/photos/libra...

George Oates helped launch the @flickrfdn.bsky.social to protect the platform’s cultural history. @rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s exactly why models like this matter. Full episode out now.

Introducing Data Lifeboat beta! We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever.

George Oates, founding executive director of @flickrfdn.bsky.social, is leading the effort to preserve Flickr's history for the next century. @rabble.nz, creator of diVine, reflects on how much culture disappeared when Vine shut down with no archive to protect it. Full episode out now.

We hosted a workshop on digital legacy in the social media age at this year's Mozilla Fest. Shout out to some of our festival highlights, who showcased the brilliant work they’re doing and for teaching us the true spirit of unlearning (this year’s theme). Read more: www.flickr.org/flickr-found...

Welcome Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, our newest Flickr Commons member, our first from Hungary. Their 4,400 glass slides, used as teaching aids in the instruction of forensic science and forensic photography, were (re)discovered in a basement during Covid www.flickr.org/welcome-eotv...

Thank you to the folks at the @flickrfdn.bsky.social for asking me some truly fantastic questions about archiving, the ephemeral nature of digital archiving, and what I've learned from working with Brits. (As ever, Flickr remains the best website on the internet!!!) www.flickr.org/a-chat-with-...

Airline buffs might enjoy the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives' collection of Airline Luggage labels, back from the golden age of airplane travel. CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp #airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...

Happy Spooky Season! We made a gallery with some of our favorite Halloween images on Flickr Commons. You can archive Flickr galleries using Data Lifeboat - give it a try! Visit datalifeboat.flickr.org today! Spooky Gallery lives here: flic.kr/y/3QJSNbn

A technological revolution! This incredible image from the State Library of New South Wales captures a man getting a permanent wave in 1938. It's one of over 1,000 images added to Flickr Commons this week. Explore more newly added imagery at commons.flickr.org/recent Image: flic.kr/p/2ryXc9C

Help us welcome Rachel L. Frick to our Board! Rachel is a digital libraries and cultural heritage leader with over 20 years of experience in transformational leadership, community building, and ensuring equitable access to information and resources. www.flickr.org/welcome-rach...

New Blog Post. Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic... - Organizing 95K photo comments. - Viewer to explore user georectified images - Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary - Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

As part of the launch of the Data Lifeboat, we will be sharing some examples of Data Lifeboats. The Commons 1k Data Lifeboat is a collection of 1,000 of the most liked and talked about images from Flickr Commons. You can see the full Data Lifeboat and datalifeboat.flickr.org/showcase

Even great code has some bugs! Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started. Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.

This photo of Tatiana Riabouchinska as the Golden Cockerel in Le Coq d'or, uploaded by the State Library of New South Wales captures the magic of Colonel de Basil's 'Original Ballet Russe' during their Australian tour. One of our favorites from the 1,469 new photos added to Flickr Commons this week.

Event update: Research Lead Tori McKenna shares a brief recap International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap in Florence. www.flickr.org/icch-recap-2...

What's happening in this photo? A Flickr member shared a story giving context to this photo uploaded by the National Library of Wales: “I was an apprentice tailor in 1955 and that is how we worked - sitting cross legged on the bench - your knee is perfect for shaping shoulders and collars etc.”

Our humble submission to #caturday comes from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women (@rad-institute.bsky.social) in America on Flickr Commons.

A poet's "mugshot" from @cabhc.bsky.social and two men keeping watch over a fairy bridge in County Donegal from the @nlireland.bsky.social were among our favorites of the 1,457 new photos this week on Flickr Commons.

We were thrilled to chat with founder & curator of African Style Archive, Tosin Adeosun, and learn about her experience as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives, and explore her favorite images from the Flickr Commons. Read the article: www.flickr.org/african-styl...

Help us welcome the newest face at Flickr.org! Anna joins us as a part-time research placement where she’ll be supporting us with Data Lifeboat research and potential institutional applications. Read the introduction at www.flickr.org/welcome-anna/

What do canned hammed displays, rodeos, and donut shops have in common? They are all part of the culture and history preserved in the Provincial Archives of Alberta of course.

"As a griot telling and carrying stories through the language of photography, film, writing, and music, I am called to multimedia practices that allow me honor and preserve one’s legacy." Read 2025 Flickr Foundation Research Fellow Oreoluwa Ifamodupe Akinyode's intro www.flickr.org/greetings-or...

We are so excited to welcome our newest Flickr Commons members @bpl.boston.gov and Archives at NCBS! blog.flickr.net/en/2025/07/2...

Today is World Brain Day established by the World Federation of Neurology in 2014. This year's theme is Brain Health for All Ages. Enjoy your brain today and these brainy images from Flickr Commons!

In our latest blog post, research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook. Image from LSE Library on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.org/looking-for-...

Jessamyn West, Flickr Commons Community Manager, chats with Flickr user Sarah Beaupre (wakethesun) about her extensive practice in cataloging animals across Flickr Commons images. Read the full conversation at blog.flickr.net/en/2025/07/1...

Jill Blackmore Evans returns to put forth four principles for enacting Reflective Web Archiving, to deliver a more responsible, equitable and usable web archive for the future. www.flickr.org/four-princip...

Hopping around the Randstad, Flickr Foundation was busy talking data care and digital commons in the Netherlands last week. Read the full article: www.flickr.org/flickr-found...

Make Pride 365! Come through @lselibrary.bsky.social‬ with these vintage buttons from the Hall-Carpenter Archives, 1970s-1980s.

For Juneteenth we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews. Supported by The Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century. Photos: Judith Sedwick. flic.kr/s/aHsjUYmeH1

In 2017 the entire Flickr.com photo archive was almost deleted by its owner Verizon. The @flickrfdn.bsky.social is working heroically to preserve these photos for the next 100 years. They have developed a toolkit called Data Lifeboat which allows anyone to create a Flickr timecapsule. #Europeana2025

We are just weeks away from the alpha launch of Data Lifeboat, and are feeling GREAT. Image from State Library of Queensland on Flickr Commons

Flickr Foundation Publishes Research Report: Building a “#Data Lifeboat” For #Flickr www.infodocket.com/2025/06/05/f... #photographs #images @flickrfdn.bsky.social @mellon.org

Sunday, May 18th was International Museum Day so we thought it was a great time to introduce a new addition to Flickr Commons. The Flickr Foundation is thrilled to welcome Auckland War Memorial Museum to Flickr Commons. blog.flickr.net/en/2025/05/1... #Flickr #photography #NewZealand

The Navy Nurse Corps is comprised of more than 2,500 active duty and reserve nurses in over 20 specialties who provide care or support patient care to the US Navy and Marine Corps, their families, and retirees. www.flickr.com/photos/navym...

IDLE CLOAKMAKERS IN MAY DAY PARADE; To Make 5th Ave March Today a Demonstration of Strength and Unity. $500,000 IN STRIKE FUND Manufacturers Tell the Public They Must Be Masters in Their Own Shops and Attack Union. www.nytimes.com/1916/05/01/a... 1916 parade photos. www.flickr.com/search/?sort...

"One of a series of photographs and negatives of engaged couples taken by staff of The Intelligencer newspaper in Belleville, Ontario. The man and woman in this image were not identified. It was taken in 1973." ID-ed in the #Flickr comments within two days. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

"These designs are among 18 ornamental patterns and decorative objects based on Kunstformen der Natur, the biologist Ernst Haeckel’s book of sketches of microscopic organisms." part of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Design by Architects album www.flickr.com/photos/nai_c... #illustration #design

A warm welcome to our newest Flickr Commons Member, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. They are one of the oldest museums in Aotearoa New Zealand. Their first album is all about sport fishing photographed by Tudor Collins www.flickr.com/photos/auckl... #photography #flickr #fishing

From the National Library of Ireland. Congrats! "Today we will post the 4,000th photo on our Flickr stream. To celebrate the milestone, we are posting 5 photos, all of which contain the number 4,000 in the catalogue reference. Thank you for all your help and support" www.flickr.com/photos/nlire...

Our Research Fellows' (Molly Sherman and Emily Fitzgerald) explore reproductive care, health, and experience across the Flickr archive, asking some probing questions... www.flickr.org/visualizing-...

"The Anglo-American cable chess matches were a series of yearly chess matches between teams from the US and Great Britain... over transatlantic cable" They won in 1908. In 1911 Great Britain won their third match, ending the series 🏆 www.flickr.com/photos/libra... www.365chess.com/tournaments/...

Russell Lee’s 1946 coal survey photographs tell the story of laborers who helped build the nation, a moment when the government took stock of their wellbeing, and a photographer who recognized their humanity March 16, 2024–December 7, 2025 Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured? Last week, we finally found the answer. www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...

One of the things the Field Museum (Chicago, US) displayed from its collection in 1898 was a "Moon Model." With a 19.2-foot diameter, it was one of the largest and most elaborate representations of the Moon at the time. It was displayed until the 1980s. www.flickr.com/photos/field...

TIL: Gas bag vehicles were built during World War One and World War Two... as an improvised solution to the shortage of gasoline. The vehicles consumed ’town gas’ or ‘street gas’, a by-product of the process of turning coal into cokes (which are used to make iron). www.flickr.com/photos/state...

Explore 30 designs to inspire your next tattoo, ranging from Australian botanicals and wildlife, to symbolism, nautical imagery and mythical creatures. From the State Library of New South Wales. www.flickr.com/photos/state...

"These initiatives are extensions of a broader project developed by the Access in the Making Lab called Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene (MDSSA)." The final research report from our research fellow Prakash Krishnan www.flickr.org/developing-a...

My friends at @flickrfdn.bsky.social (their commercial arm, but still my friends) are working to elevate Black Women & Nonbinary people in photography with a US$5,000 grant and pro memberships to Flickr & SmugMug. blog.flickr.net/en/2025/03/1... Photo by Genesis Falls - previous recipient