http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/17/of-flickr-the-library-of-congress-and-the-day-beth-played-hooky-to-read-up-on-the-great-depression-and-the-communist-party/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:38:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/17/of-flickr-the-library-of-congress-and-the-day-beth-played-hooky-to-read-up-on-the-great-depression-and-the-communist-party/comment-page-1/#comment-692223 Bill Janssen Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:32:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/17/of-flickr-the-library-of-congress-and-the-day-beth-played-hooky-to-read-up-on-the-great-depression-and-the-communist-party/#comment-692223 The LOC Flickr collection is amazing. Shots of the process of replacing a locomotive's tire (look for a ring of fire); amazing pictures of the German Fleet in New York harbor circa 1912 (with Kaiser Wilhelm demonstrating lifeboat drills); lots of photos of TVA hydropower dam construction during WW II, ostensibly for aluminum smelting, though for some reason when you plot them on a map they form a rough circle around Oak Ridge, Tennessee; a photo I'd never seen before of <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/10300/10348r.jpg" rel="nofollow">a lifeboat from the <em>Titanic</em></a>, filled with dazed-looking people, coming alongside the <em>Carpathia</em>. The LOC Flickr collection is amazing. Shots of the process of replacing a locomotive’s tire (look for a ring of fire); amazing pictures of the German Fleet in New York harbor circa 1912 (with Kaiser Wilhelm demonstrating lifeboat drills); lots of photos of TVA hydropower dam construction during WW II, ostensibly for aluminum smelting, though for some reason when you plot them on a map they form a rough circle around Oak Ridge, Tennessee; a photo I’d never seen before of a lifeboat from the Titanic, filled with dazed-looking people, coming alongside the Carpathia.

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