I haven’t seen this yet posted to any genealogy blogs I read, but perhaps I missed it. This has been circulating in my professional blogsphere for a little while now and I finally was able to spend a few minutes looking around.
The Library of Congress has added (and will continue to add) photos from their vast collection into Flickr for the general community to tag. Their original post is here, but then they followed up with some very interesting data. They added over 3,000 pictures to Flickr and people have been tagging away! If you get a chance to look, the pictures are all very good quality and many are just gorgeous.
As I was looking, I decided to look for Honus Wagner (I’ve posted before about how my friend’s genealogy intersects with him). Sure enough, they have a few pictures. There is one picture of him with some fellow players that was taken about 1912, and another picture of him with the whole team. Interestingly enough, Honus’ name is a tag on this second picture, so someone out there knew he was on this team and tagged the photo. That is the wonderful premise behind this project.
I can’t wait to see what else LOC continues to add!
Library of Congress Goes to Flickr
