People on a picknick, Lysekil, Sweden. Photo: Carl Curman, c. 1900
We are proud to announce that a selection of our photos is available on Flickr Commons joining institutions like the Library of Congress, The Smithsonian and the National Galleries of Scotland. Our aim with the participation is to:
- Increase access to our photos
- Allow the public to comment on and tag the photos and evaluate how this can increase the photos information value
- Link the user back to our own photo database – Kulturmiljöbild
The photos
We have initially uploaded photos by Carl Curman (1833-1913) who was a pioneer in public health care and father of a director general of The Swedish National Heritage Board; Sigurd Curman (in office 1923-1946). The copyright of the photos has expired and they are free to use. We would appreciate if you gave the photographer moral-rights credit accordance with Swedish copyright law.
We will continuously provide more photos, so please return to see what Carl Curman found worth documenting some hundred years ago!
Why in English?
We are very exited to join Flickr Commons and hope that you will find our photos as interesting as we do, and that you will help us describe them. :) We would also appreciate if you link back to the photos on Flickr when you use them.
Usable links
- Flickr Commons
- Indicommons – blog about Flickr Commons
- Report from the Library of Congress about their participation
- The Flickr Commons group on Flickr
- Read our rights statement on Kulturmiljöbild
>> The Flickr Commons team at The Swedish National Heritage Board (Johan Carlström, Sophie Jonasson, Lars Lundqvist, Anna Boman and Lars Kennerstedt).
Thanks to Martin Rundkvist for language revision.