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Just before i left for switzerland, trying to make a point about image rights to the kids in my web design class, i noticed that flickr suddenly had a HUGE amount of images in the public domain, added by the likes of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, Kodak's George Eastman House archive, et cetera. They listed in 'The Commons," which means they are free to use as you should like (do a flickr search for anything, and choose the commons as the search, and you will be amazed).
Above is an image from the LoC's archive of 1930's to 40's colour images. 27 pages of Kodachrome images to look through. Absolutely amazing, and wonderful to see, and be reminded of, especially now that Kodachrome is officially on it's death bed (the last run of newly produced film was this summer, and they will no longer process it after december of 2010).
As per the existance of these images on flickr, it apparently is nothing too new. For instance, that image above of the man servicing a floodlight was actually added to flickr in January of 2008 (but the matter was pointed out on It's Nice That just recently).
Added recently (as in, a couple days ago) were some images from the library of New South Wale's collection, such as this one here:
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Got some time on your hands? Go do some searching through public image making's past.
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