Category Archives: Local History

Smithsonian’s Database of Outdoor Sculpture (and more…)

This is a photograph I took of a sculpture of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem. When I added it to Flickr, I wanted to credit the sculptor, but I didn’t know his name. I decided to try looking this up in … Continue reading

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Library Postcards on Flickr

Library Postcards Flickr is primarily a site for sharing photographs, but there are lots of scanned historical images there as well. Old postcards are particularly popular, maybe because they are readily available, inexpensive, usually have identifying information, are small in … Continue reading

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