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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...

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Clare 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...

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Guest 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...

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Bay 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...

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Tagging 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...

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Internal 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,...

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Carnivals, 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...

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Futuristic 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...

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Olympic 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...

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Shanghai 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...

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Favourite 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...

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Getting 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...

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10,000 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...

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The 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...

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Gilded 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...

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Over 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...

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#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...

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Guest 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...

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Top 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....

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Local 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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