The New York Public Library has joined the Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons), uploading an initial contribution of 1300 images from its photographic collections. The NYPL is promising even more!

Collections include...

• Asia and the Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs (2 sets)
• 19th-Century Middle East (2 sets)
• African-American Portraits, 1935 - 1944: Farm Security Administration Collection (1 set)
• History of the New York Public Library (2 sets)
• Production Photographs from the Early Cinema (2 sets)
• Western Landscapes 1860s - 1870s (2 sets)

Sets include...

• Early Modern Dance: The Denishawn Collection (68 photographs)
• Civil War Era Photographs and Drawings (132 Photographs)
• Farm Security Administration Collection: 1935-1944 (123 Photographs)
• Changing New York, 1935-1938 (160 Photographs)
• Japan / Kimbei Kusakabe (102 Photographs)
• Ellis Island Photographs (89 Photographs)
• The Statue of Liberty Under Construction (13 Photographs)
• NYPL: Work With Schools (64 Photographs)
• NYPL: Research Library (35 Photographs)
• Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins (51 Photographs)
• Photographs and Prints of Egypt and Syria (83 Photographs)
• The Great West Illustrated (48 Photographs)
• Yosemite Views (31 Photographs)
• Egypt and Nubia by Beato and others (43 Photographs)
• Album of Photographs of Japan (43 Photographs)
• Cinema 1912-1914 (104 Photographs)
• Cinema 1915 (111 Photographs)