Snap Shots of Europe from the 1890s
For the past few months St John’s College Library, Cambridge has been busy pinning a great collection of photos taken by the Victorian polymath Samuel Butler. Butler lived in South England but...
View ArticleClare Balding shares family photos
Clare Balding, known for her love of sport, horses and THAT interview with Bert, recently named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK and universally accepted as Queen of the Olympic...
View ArticleGuest Post: Year of the Bay contributor Michael Rettie on Stumbling Across a...
We love to hear fun stories about the ways users collect content for our projects, and this week we are pleased to introduce a guest post by Bay Area local Michael Rettie, a Year of the Bay...
View ArticleBay Area Resident José Vadi Shares His Father’s Memories of a East Harlem...
Firefighters from FDNY help to contain the building collapse at Park Avenue in East Harlem, March 12, 2014. Photo from FDNY. Around 9:30 am on March 12, 2014, two buildings once standing by 116th...
View ArticleTagging Embeds: The Manhattan Project
One of the things I’m realizing we need to do more of is use the blog to highlight the many different ways people are using Historypin to highlight their work, research and community engagement. I...
View ArticleInternal Street Views, a trip to Egypt and votes for women
Happy Friday! On Wednesday we were really excited to present our first ever pin from inside the White House, of a reception in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Here are some more famous visitors,...
View ArticleCarnivals, Soldiers in the Far East, Walking on Water
We hope everyone had a great weekend! With the inspirational Paralympics in full swing, the world’s attention is once again on London, and the city has been busy celebrating with many diverse...
View ArticleFuturistic sunglasses, Welsh storytelling, and the Beatles in Minehead
Happy Friday everyone! We are in the process of making some exciting changes here at Historypin, so keep a look out on our site for some great new features. Here are some fun stories and photos that...
View ArticleOlympic Memories
Bill Plester carrying the 1948 Olympic Torch The Olympics may have come to a close, but we wanted to remind everyone that you can keep adding to our Olympic Collection. Whether they are your own...
View ArticleShanghai in the 1940's
Shanghai Harbour 1946 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries have been pinning some remarkable photos of Shanghai in the 1940’s. The photos come from Aurthur Smith who studied medicine at Lincoln...
View ArticleFavourite Photo Memories
Running the bases at 3Com Park, 1997. I would like to share one of my favorite photo memories from my family photo albums, of my younger sister and I running the bases at Candlestick Park (then 3Com...
View ArticleGetting Back into the 1951 Spirit
The Dome of Discovery and the Skylon, 1952 As this summer’s Southbank Festival of the World in London demonstrated, the area that once encompassed 1951’s Festival of Britain is continuing its...
View Article10,000 photos shared by the National Collection of Aerial Photography
We are very excited to announce that the National Collection of Aerial Photography has joined Historypin, sharing 10,000 photos from their fantastic collections. With this impressive contribution they...
View ArticleThe Historic New Orleans Photo Collection
Central Fire Station, 300 Block Decatur Street, 1928-1932. Historypin recently helped to Street View hundreds of photos belonging to the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum, research center, and...
View ArticleGilded Age New York, Cairns Time Machine ™, and Filmmaker Eddie Wong
We hope that our American friends across the pond had a good Thanksgiving, and are suitably recovering from their food comas. We have a very special Friday Favourites today, as we welcome a...
View ArticleOver 1,000 images of civil, environmental, and political rights movements now...
1967 Spring Mobilization against the War in Vietnam. San Francisco. Harvey Richards Media Archive Several years ago, our friends at Teaching for Change gave us an amazing book of photos by Harvey...
View Article#IWD2017 – A Collection of Collections
Big thanks to Kerri for compiling this collection of collections – just in time for International Women’s Day. Enjoy – and be sure to share. Here’s your hashtag: #IWD2017. Marches and grassroots...
View ArticleGuest Post: Robyn Hamilton (Queensland Memory) on sharing stories of...
This guest post comes from Robyn Hamilton, QANZAC100 Content Curator for Queensland Memory, part of the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) in Australia. Historypin’s partnership with the SLQ produced...
View ArticleTop 5 Street Views in Remembering WWI
Over the past few years, I have been lucky enough to facilitate the curation of US National Archives World War I-era content in Remembering WWI, both on Historypin and within a companion tablet app....
View ArticleLocal museums, libraries, and archives participating in Remembering WWI
A few months back, we invited local institutions to contribute content to the US National Archives’ centennial project, Remembering WWI. Through participation in this national effort, museums,...
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