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These pictures are great. I am really happy that the Library of Congress is doing this.
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Wonderful photo! Ditto, I am happy LC is doing this. I was 1 month old when this was taken, in Illinois to boot, and this scene brings back fond memories.
The more railroad pictures you post, the better! Bravo and thank you.
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What a fantastic serie of beautiful photos.
Fantastic that the Library of Congress is doing this.
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This is a real treasure of the public domain. I think it is fantastic to make these available through Flickr, the best photo sharing site around.
It is a shame they have not uploaded the full resolution images. The LOC's own site will often have 20MB scans of these photos. I've made some beautiful prints of New York's Penn Station from there.
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Thomas, the link to the persistent URL in the description area will take you to a high-resolution version of the image. Good luck!
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Thanks JHSayers! Saved me from having to search their PPOC site.
This is quite exciting! Some real beautiful stuff to be found in there.
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The Library of Congress isn't just one of my favorite buildings... it's now probably my favorite Flickr contact.
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I absolutely love Jack Delano's work. Thank you so very much to the LOC for posting these photos on Flickr!
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Wonderful work.
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neat train picture :)
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This is to good for words. Thank you LOC! Love the catalog description too. Well organized.
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A brilliant collection and a wonderful idea. Thanks for using flickr!
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Thank you so much for releasing these images on flickr. Wow, what a spectacle!
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very nice. Awesome idea.
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Yeah, fan mail for my tax dollars at work! Seriously, two thumbs up, thanks.
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good project! very thanks!
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Beautiful picture; great project
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We’re glad you’re enjoying them. We're pleased to be able to share the photographs with such enthusiastic viewers!
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Wonderful project!
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Excellent shot. Felt bad I couldn't add any tags ;) Everyone seems to be doing a good job of it.
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Great idea, thanks !
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Cool idea !
Now if we can just get our own Canadian Government to do the same thing up here.... ;-)
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Railroads draw a flower blossoming.
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yes!!! thank you! this is amazing.
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awesome project, making these accessible easily by the people
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Thank You for all the work that must have gone into this. What an amazing collection.
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Neato.
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we do not have much railroads here where I live, sure it is nice to see an oldie.
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I see a lot of these on Shorpy, and this makes me an instant fan of the LOC, these are incredibly beautiful images :)
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this is what tax dollars were meant for :)
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Finally the Internet starts to live up to its promise!
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Awesome pictures!
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Publishing all these excellent historic photos for everyone to enjoy is a wonderful project!
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this is cool
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I have an ongoing project (brand new, of course), started in an effort to help restore the color to these images, but also try to maintain the integrity and charm of the original.
Here is the adjusted photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/alec_fredericks/sets/72157603732346...
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This is great!!
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Anyone who knows where this was taken, please geotag it.
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These pictures are AMAZING. They make me realize how much work I have to do as a photographer. ;)
This is a great idea. I may never have seen a lot of these any other way.
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attaboy
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great to see these!
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Wonderful idea!!! I love these great pictures.
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It does look like something I've seen at Shorpy.
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Good and Nice photo.
Good photo
Lighting- is Nice.
Composition-Ok.
Focusing-Ok
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i think you are my favourite flickr contact by far
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This is what makes you realize that some taxes are worth it! Keep up the great work!
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Wow, I wish the feds would increase the funding for the NEA. We're lucky to see all of this.
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This is an amazing collection. We are glad to see other institutions using flickr to display extraordinary pictures. The Westerville Public Library is doing something similar using the Flickr API to celebrate the city's 150th anniversary. Take a look:
www.westervillelibrary.org/timeline/
www.flickr.com/photos/westerville_public_library/
Keep up the amazing job!
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I love that the LOC is bringing American History to life. Thanks for taking on this initiative and providing all of these wonderful images for easy Flickr viewing. I can't get enough!
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Excellent idea. Kudos to the Library of Congress and Flickr.
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This is WONDERFUL! So much history capured so timelessly.
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So this is how clouds are made!
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this is so great. so happy to discover this. thanks for posting these amazing historical photos!
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I don't understand: Why is there absolutely no metadata in the files we all can download via the All Sizes link? Why not IPTC?
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Perhaps because no one had time to enter any into the file? I would imagine there are tens of thousands of images (if not more) that need updating. But likely no one to do it (or very few people). I can't pretend to know the answer to your question, but considering the photo was taken in the 1940s, I have to hazard a guess that the camera didn't automatically insert any IPTC data when it was taken. Perhaps if you can find the photographer, you can ask why he/she didn't use a better camera.
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You've heard of film, right? ;-) I'm pretty sure those film cameras were lacking the metadata.
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Haha making clouds...
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Only just found this set of shots, brilliant use of Flickr! What a nice way to spend a day at work, viewing 3000 odd photos!
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I love the feel of this one.
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Wow. These photos are fantastic. I may be putting a few of these on my office walls :)
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Beautiful!
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Hi,
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great! thanks for sharing so many photos!
I have just seen a report on german state tv (WDR) about this idea!
regards.
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One suggestion: It looks like the images aren't tagged by the photographer's name. That would be very helpful for searching.
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Add the tag :) It's a team effort, chirugby :)
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Wonderful collection ---------great pic all of them
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nice project!
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Thank you so much for posting this wonderful series! So many of these photos I'd probably never have the opportunity to see any other way.
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這張圖片真美！感謝你們為全人類作的事情！
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络非 says:
非常棒的计划，谢谢！
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Are You Experienced?, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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I LIKE this, library of congress. Keep up the good work.
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Excellent, Thank you!
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 Thanks for adding this pictures to Flickr, this is a treasure !
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needs another tag UK english
"marshalling yard"
www.wordwebonline.com/en/MARSHALLINGYARD
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It's a beautiful photograph!
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This is beautiful - and this is coming from a Chicago native! -saves-
What a treasure! <3
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Magnifica muestra del pasado en color. Gracias por quitarnos de la retina del pasado el B.N.
Paz
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