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A formal portrait of a man in a formal Navy Uniform. He is sitting in front of two flags and a globe and has many medals and other indications of rank on his jacket. There is a very small rubber chicken in the lower left of the painting.
Black and white photograph of a person in a large ungainly rubber outfit with cables and pressure gauges around them. They are seated on a stuffed chair in a living room setting.
Sepiatone photograph c. 1915 showing Mr. Krikor Kassiants on horse and buggy in front of his grocery store named after him, in the city of Hailar [Haelar], Manchuria, China
A cabinet card of a very dreamy looking seated woman in a photography studio staring into the distance. The most notable feature is her hair which is dark and wavy and nearly reaches the ground. The caption reads Miss Grace Sutherland
A photograph of a man playing a harp outdoors. He is wearing a dark jacket and bowler hat. The caption is written underneath the image and is also the text in this post: Street harpist opposite Mark Hopkins Art Institute. (All remember him.)
Striking Garment Workers, May 1 1916, a black and white image of people gathered in a street holding a 48 star American flag and a banner saying "Long Live the Cloak Makers Union"
Black and white image of a very full BART train with people seated and standing. At least four people are reading newspapers.
Five stewardesses in work outfits occupy five adjacent phone booths smiling while making phone calls.
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.
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.
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
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.
Group of young people dancing the hora
The slide shows a pink/orange tinted plate depicting two swirling columnar forms with burnt details representing solar explosions 124,000 miles high, a small dark circle in the upper left corner of the plate represents Earth to scale.
super-saturated photograph of a train track somewhere with beinge plateaus right next to it. Two lines of men with tan skin wearing work clothes--overalls and dungarees--are holding crowbars under each track. There are maybe ten men in each line. It's a bright sunny day.
Luggage label showing a plane which has landed on water which has 4 or 5 engines on the top of the plane's wing. Caption reads: Lufthansa Flugshiff "DOX" Passagiergepack
A woman in a black bathing suit, witch’s hat and cape is floating underwater in a natural ocean environment, creating the illusion she is levitating while sitting on a broomstick.
A large contraption of wires, plastic and metal components is attached from above to a man's head. With a towel wrapped around his shoulders, the man sits with an unremarkable expression on his face.
A man in a suit makes an exaggerated - possible exasperated or confused -- facial expression with eyebrows arched and and eyes looking down and to the side.
A ballerina dressed in a metallic rooster costume squats low to the ground while remaining on point. The photo is captures the ballerinas form directly in profile.
A man sits with legs crossed on top of a work bench next to a window with various tailoring tools on the surface around him. He is working on a piece of fabric shaped over his knee.
A woman at the turn of the 20th century in black period appropriate dress standing on a street with brick wall holds a long haired white cat.
Five women wearing leotards acrobatically pose visually creating a A-frame pyramid by posing on stacked ladders.
poster shows a drawing of a man in uniform, either military or a sea captain, with a light blue and orange fish on his head. He has his hand to his chin as if pondering an idea.
A man wearing a suit carrying a stack of books looks at a large bookshelf filled with encyclopedias. Behind him a woman is standing reading a book and another man browses the shelf in the distance.
Red badge pin with white text resembling a Coca-Cola logo reading “Gay-Love it’s the real thing”
Etta Moten Barnett, actress, concert artist, and radio personality, smiling and leaning against and open iron gate in front of a stone building. Transcript: Project Spotlight. Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981 on Flickr Commons
Vintage photo of a child in a toy car wearing driving goggles, a hat and white lace neck ruffle text overlayed "Rolling into summer like"
Black and white photograph of people in Chicago dressed in suits and long dressed holding banners which say May Day and a few other things which aren't legible
Illustration of a circular object which looks like a Haeckel object on one side and a fancy dinner plate on the other.
an RSU test set which is a metal box with a lot of input jacks for testing stuff, like maybe a few dozen little holes, a few switches and I don't know what any of this stuff is.
angular photo of the border wall between the US and Mexico
Screenshot from Flickr Commons Explorer showing six very random images: a greeting card, a historical building, women in gas masks, a man at a desk, a comedic photo of men in a fake boat, and some images from a scrapbook
Two men standing on a wheeled cart in the middle of a field with some apparatus which has four large cones of the type you might see on an old Victrola.
A man with a mustache wearing a suit that is covered from hips to shoulders in medals of various shapes and sized.
an animated root vegetable, possibly a beet, with a human head wearing a tall top hat, and carrying a walking stick and a heart fashioned out of soil, from which a plant is growing. The vegetable is walking from left to right.
screenshot showing a set of search results for the word "buzzard" on the Internet Archive Book Images account showing some pages with pictures of bird heads mainly and one turtle for some reason.
A paperboy with his mouth open standing in a room. He is holding a newspaper and a bag which says Tallahassee Democrat on it
Photograph of Rosa Parks looking out a window. She has grey hair arranged on her head and is wearing glasses and a serene expression
Stereogram of US president Abe Lincoln with an uncharacteristic brush cut
A dozen women in fancy dresses and hats surround one woman who is blowing out candles on a birthday cake
Black and white image of a man with a long beard wearing outdoor trekking gear and holding what looks to be a sword standing in a studio meant to mimic the outdoors.
Black and white photograph of a small child holding up a large fish in front of several interested-looking cats.
Photograph of Dan Catt a white man with a white beard wearing a reddish orange toque outdoors and looking off to the side. There is some bit of technology attached to his hat.
Four women in flight suits walk towards the photographer. There is a four engined plane in the back ground
Two women stand next to each other, one with her arm around the others' shoulders as they look into the camera and smile.
Test subject wearing jet-shoe apparatus and laying sideways resting in sling support over either water or a very shiny floor. The cables are not attached.
A young girl in a white dress sits on a wicker chair listening intently to a gramophone.
A panel truck that says XMAS POST OFFICE on the side of it with a caption reading Flickr.org Last Chance to Give in 2024
Two women in white dresses face each other on a balance beam. Each one is balacing on one foot. There are people wearing similar outfits who are standing and observing. Caption reads Support Flickr.org, Help Keep Flickr Pictures visible for 100 Years. The words "support" and "flickr" and "100 years" are in hot pink.
A small handwritten letter on orange stationary saying Hello Jamie, Welcome to Flickr Commons. I look forward to seeing what you share with us. Best, Jessamyn. ps, stickers enclosed" There are six pink Flickr Foundation stickers next to the letter which rests on a wooden desk on top of an Apple keyboard
A small gold and red pin in the shape of a parachute with the word SAFE on it resting on a blue fuzzy background.
stereogram card with an orange border with a photo of trees growing on rocks. Side caption reads Views of the Grand Ledge and Photo by by Scotford. Lansing.
A woman with blonde hair and a light blue sweater leans over a table covered in circuit boards loaded with colorful wires. She is looking at one intently and writing something down with a pencil. She is in a room with all the walls covered in grey mainframe-type computers. Caption reads: Our Archivists are Standing By. Support Flickr.org
A white Vertical Motion Simulator cab in motion. It is a white box with red stripes and appears to be moving within some sort of chamber lit with a blue light.
A screenshot of the second query which shows a search for "moon" and returns a lot of illustrations of the moon and other celestial images.
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company. They are working on various parts of what looks like a long metal cylinder with reinforcing struts