Mounted policeman controlling the crowds at the 1928 Olympics
Over at Flickr there is a real treat for fans of Creative Commons, Open Source and other similar hippy concepts. The Dutch national archive, in collaboration with Spaarnestad Photo have put about 400 photos online for everybody’s enjoyment. As if that is not enough, the national archive have about half a million low-res scanned photos online, with plans to expand and have higher-res versions.
This photo is my favourite so far, from a set of photos of the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.
And it gets better! Flickr Commons has a growing list of organisations all putting up non-copyright images, many of them interesting historical photos, including:
- The Library of Congress (with a stonking 4,600+ photos)
- The State Library of NSW
- The Powerhouse Museum (a brilliant museum in Sydney, with loads of fantastic old photos of Sydney)
- The Smithsonian (including some amazing astrological photos from the Chandra X-ray Observatory)
- The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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