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Back when Bay Area Rapid Transit only used to go to Dublin, Richmond, Fremont, and Daly City, and people read newspapers on public transportation. More Bay Area Rapid Transit images from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/search/?user... #Photography

Black and white image of a very full BART train with people seated and standing. At least four people are reading newspapers.

Black and white image of a man on a BART train setting up some sort of fancy camera on a tripod. Over his shoulder you can see the BART map which shows a much smaller system than the one we have today.

How we used to make phone calls in airports. From the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...

Five stewardesses in work outfits occupy five adjacent phone booths smiling while making phone calls.

‘Threading Ephemeral’: Oreoluwa’s fellowship reflections. "[S]o much of my work and stewardship is deeply embedded in their trust of me to carry their stories with me and to share within our family. This research fellowship has in fact always been about us/them/us!" www.flickr.org/threading-ep...

'Threading Ephemeral': Oreoluwa's closing reflections on the Fellowship - Flickr Foundation

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Read our blog post and research report that we did with 2400 Flickr members discussing digital legacy planning: Death is Not an Edge Case. "[W]hat happens to those photographs, and to the people who made them, is a question worth taking seriously." www.flickr.org/death-is-not...

Death is not an edge case - Flickr Foundation

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The Calgary Motorcycle Club will be 100 years old this year. Please enjoy these photos of its early days. Yes it's more from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/photos/alber... #photography #motorcycles #Calgary

Calgary Motorcycle Club

Explore this photo album by Provincial Archives of Alberta on Flickr!

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How we used to sell tires. How we used to sell natural gas. How we used to sell furnaces. From the Provincial Archives of Alberta on Flickr Commons www.flickr.com/photos/alber...

Black and white photo of a woman in a bathing suit standing with a rifle at a product display for tires from Edmonton Tire Company. There is fake turf under her and two fake ducks.

Black and white photo of a billboard with a woman eating a hamburger and smiling as her hair whips around her. The caption reads "Swing to gas, it's the savingest" there is a couple dancing some new=fangled dance in the background.

Black and white image of a woman in a sparkly spandex bodysuit holding a very sparkly helmet standing in front of an industrial blower for a furnace of some kind

An Itinerant Teacher's car, which has travelled many thousand miles in carrying out the instruction of out-back children. From the State Library of Queensland, on Flickr Commons www.flickr.com/photos/state... #photography #queensland

Well-worn teacher's car in outback Queensland during the 1920s

Creator: Unidentified. Location: Queensland. Description: Photograph from API-81 Department of Public Instruction- Dental Service Photograph Album. Caption: An Itinerant Teacher's car, which h...

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Sawmill photos from Ontario in the early 1900s. From the Cloyne and District Historical Society, on Flickr Commons. #Flickr #photography #Ontario

Two men in a wooden building with a large log that has been partially sawn, The pulleys and the belts which help the sawmill run are visible at the edges of the photo.

Two men in a wooden building standing near a very large blade which has no guards or anything on it. the caption at the top of the image reads 1917.

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Helen Keller (2nd from left in both) spent two days in 1945 visiting men at the US Naval Hospital in Kittery, Maine with her secretary Polly Thompson. #Flickr #Photography

Black and white photo of a man in a hospital bed attached to an IV talking with two women while another younger woman smiles directly into the camera

Black and white photo of four people sitting in wooden chairs in front of a fireplace. The man on the left, governor of Maine, is wearing a suit, the man on the right is wearing a naval uniform. The two women in the center are wearing dark dresses and one is fingerselling into the hand of the other.

The State of Social Media #Archiving (A New Research Report From the @flickrfdn.bsky.social) www.flickr.org/a-new-resear... #socialmedia #archives #libraries

"A selection of love inspired images from British Library's digitised 19th Century books, surfaced by the fantastic work of people who have been tagging these by hand!" www.flickr.com/photos/briti... #valentine #flickr

Valentine's Day

A selection of love inspired images from British Library's digitised 19th Century books, surfaced by the fantastic work of people who have been tagging these by hand! Please tag any similar images ...

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Maybe sometimes you want to participate in a two-person sport where you're not quite so... close together. Consider the Steinhoff Bobsled. It's even got a light! www.flickr.com/photos/libra...

Steinhoff bobsled, for two people, Caldwell, N.J. (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher. Steinhoff bobsled, for two people, Caldwell, N.J. [no date recorded on caption card] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data pr...

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Not all historical photos are from the early days of photography. This album taken two years before the state of Michigan legalized recreational marijuana shows many dispensaries and growing operations some of which came and went very rapidly #photography #marijuana www.flickr.com/photos/cadl_...

Photograph of Lansing's Green Mile Meds, a small corrugated metal building with graffiti on the site with the name of the shop in large colorful stylized letters.