Remix Photo by Maja Larsson (CC by-nc-sa). Original photos by unknown photographer (Swedish National Heritage Board) and by Dolan Halbrook. (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr, with links to the originals.) On March 17th, the Swedish National Heritage Board celebrates three rewarding and exciting years on The Commons on Flickr, […]

Mr and Mrs Samuelsson, Stigåsa, Småland, Sweden As you may have noticed, today the world is celebrating love. The people behind Ask archivists thought that the archives all over the world were full of pictures and stories about love so they have started the hashtag #loveheritage on Twitter and asked all archives to join in. […]

Raoul Wallenberg as a senior high school graduate in May 1930, together with his mother Maj von Dardel. Photo: Berit Wallenberg The 17th of January 2012 was the start of the Raoul Wallenberg Year, celebrated in memory of the Swedish businessman, architect and diplomat, born in Stockholm on August 4th, 1912. Raoul Wallenberg saved the […]

Skanstull in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1943 The 1940:s in Sweden and Norway – in colour! The Swedish National Heritage Board presents a new collection on Flickr Commons with photos by Fredrik Daniel Bruno (1882-1971), who was a town engineer in Hudiksvall in the northern part of central Sweden. He was also a diligent […]

Uppsala, Sweden, 1943. Photo: Fredrik Bruno A pink parasol in the Swedish town of Uppsala in 1943…cyclists on a street in Härnösand in 1944… a restaurant in Gothenburg in 1944… people viewing Kjølingefjell mountain in Norway from afar… We are preparing for a new collection on the Flickr Commons page of the Swedish National Heritage […]

Bearded man on horseback. Sweden, 1930s. Photo: Einar Erici Time to present a new set on Flickr Commons, with a mix of bearded Swedish men, some wives and families of these men, some monks at Valamo monastery in Karelia and some Swedish churches and church organs. The man behind the camera was Einar Erici (1885-1965), […]

Stockholm, Sweden, in 1900. This is the photo with the most views on our Flickr account. Photo: Carl Curman I was quite thrilled this morning when I had a glance at the Flickr statistics for views on our account on Flickr Commons. The magical limit of 1 000 000 views since the launching on 2009.03.17, […]

Read the post in english below Foto: Einar Erici, Lars Lundqvist (cc-by-nc) och Anna Boman (cc-by-nc-nd). Inte bara tomten har skägg! Gamla tiders män hade det – moderna män har det också. Den svenske läkaren och orgelforskaren Einar Erici (1885-1965) fotograferade förutom kyrkor och kyrkorglar också människor, och av någon anledning gärna män med skägg. […]

by  beta75.se Minnesinstitutionernas bildskatter ligger delvis tillgängliga på nätet. Fria från upphovsrätt, fria att använda. Men ingen hittar dit. Hur ser nutida kulturarvsskapare och kreatörer på det här materialet? Och vad är kulturarv för allmänheten? Det jag som kommunikatör inte kan undgå att se, är att man inte lyckas nå ut med sina bildskatter. De […]