Our album on Flickr Commons called “Old churches“ was launched in September 2009. We will now let the album grow, with even more images of churches and their environments from all over Sweden, some 100 years ago or more. The album reflects one of the largest photo collections in the archives of the Swedish National […]

Three years have passed since the Swedish National Heritage Board presented Fredrik Bruno and his 1940s colour photographs on Flickr Commons. Since the images have been largely appreciated, we thought it would be nice to renew the acquaintance and show some more of these photos from different towns around Sweden (and some from the countryside), […]

The Swedish National Heritage Board is celebrating 5 rewarding years on The Commons on Flickr, where we show and share old copyright free images since March 17th, 2009. Until today, 1.325 images have been uploaded to our photostream, arranged in 24 picture sets and five picture collections reflecting our large public collections of photos and […]

Starting today, the Swedish National Heritage Board invites you to enjoy a choice of photographs by the Swedish botanist and landscape historian Mårten Sjöbeck, which we will upload to a new picture set on Flickr Commons during spring. The images, which are from the 1920s to about 1960, show landscapes and cultural environments, towns, buildings […]

Did you, your parents or grandparents ever send or receive a postcard from Sweden before the 1970s? If so, that postcard might very well have been produced by the Almquist & Cöster Company; one of the major postcard companies in Sweden, founded in the 1920s by the photographer Salfon Almquist and the technician Rudolph Cöster […]

We are proud to tell that the photographs of the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons now have been viewed more than three million times. This striking number was reached and passed this week and is surely worthy of some attention. Our participation on The Commons on Flickr has allowed so many people from […]

After nearly four rewarding years on Flickr Commons with more than 1100 uploaded photographs will the Swedish National Heritage Board now show some samples of another kind of images, in a new picture set called “Drawings, watercolours, prints“. The Library of the Swedish National Heritage Board (Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek) and the Board’s public archives hold thousands […]

Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. A popular image from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown Five years ago, on the 16th of January, 2008 The Commons was launched as a part of  Flickr, the international website for photo sharing with millions of viewers and users. The initiator of The Commons was the Library […]

Berit Wallenberg and archaeologists Söderberg and Althin at an excavation in Nälsta, Uppland, Sweden, in May 1930. Photo: Unknown Berit Wallenberg (1902-1995) was a Swedish archaeologist and art historian. She began photographing as a teenager, and brought her camera on the many travels she made in Sweden and abroad, often on her own and under […]