Photo by George
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.
You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover in The Commons on Flickr, either by adding tags or leaving comments.*
A random sprinkling of our participating institutions...

Trigger-Happy Star Formation - Cepheus B: A cloud of molecular...
from Smithsonian Institution

Student Union Officers 1937-1938
from LSE Library

Carrières de phosphate de Raynal, Caylus
from Bibliothèque de Toulouse

Black Hole Pumps Iron
from Smithsonian Institution

Royal Poinciana on the Rawson property outside Mackay, ca. 1875
from State Library of Queensland, Australia

La mare aux canards, camp de Labat, Caylus, 10 juin 1899
from Bibliothèque de Toulouse
![[Two windmills, Holland] (LOC)](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/4120057418_d700f0b64b_m.jpg)
[Two windmills, Holland] (LOC)
from The Library of Congress

Interior main Building, c1920s
from LSE Library

Interior main Building, c1920s
from LSE Library
A new way to share photos on Flickr
The Commons was launched on January 16 2008, when we released our pilot project in partnership with The Library of Congress. Both Flickr and the Library were overwhelmed by the positive response to the project! Thank you!
The program has two main objectives:
Please let us know you're interested by registering here. It helps a lot if you let us know some background about your institution, and direct us to any online photo collections you already have.
We've already seen fantastic contribution from the Flickr membership. Your tags and conversations about the content in The Commons has been wonderful! The best way to get involved is to add a tag or two to the photos you see, and if you happen to know anything else about the subject, by all means add a comment.
This new rights statement is being contained to the institutions participating in The Commons, at the account level. It is a requirement for participation in the program that institutions may rightly claim "no known copyright restrictions" on the content they share. More information.
*Any Flickr member is able to add tags or comment on these collections. If you're a dork about it, shame on you. This is for the good of humanity, dude!!