Fall has arrived in Visby, it has rained throughout the day and now the wind has increased in strength. In the church ruin everything is quiet, a lot of people are coming and going and several are sitting dead silence and watching the photos. We are one hour in the event and we have had […]

The Western Mound after excavation. Photo: Henri Osti One of the photos recently presented at Flickr Commons depicts an excavation performed in one of the imposing Uppsala Mounds called the Western Mound. The photo was taken by Henri Osti who emigrated from Germany to Sweden were he opened a photographer’s studio in Uppsala. As a […]

Som ett tidigare blogginlägg berättar om har Kulturhusens dag den 13 september som tema ”Sverige-Finland, en delad historia”. Det hänger ihop med märkesåret 1809 när Finland och Sverige skildes åt efter många hundra år som ett gemensamt rike. Jag hade nöjet att vara med och leta bilder i samband med planeringen av evenemanget, som Riksantikvarieämbetet […]

Man beside one of two dolmens at Snarringe hamlet in Skåne. The passage grave could be from c. 2500 BC. Photograph by: Unknown Finally…! The new collection on Flickr Commons, as we told about last week, is now launched with 20 uploaded pictures to start with… This is so exciting: how will these old photographs of […]

Ög 46 Herrestad. Girls beside runestone in Herrestad in Östergötland. Photo: Unknown photographer, c. 1900 We are happy to announce that we will present a new collection on Flickr Commons in the beginning of next week – on September 1st to be more precise. We give you a sneak preview in this post. It´s called […]

Lake Vangsmjosa in Valdres, Norway (on Flickr Commons). Photo: Carl Curman As we told earlier (here and here), some photos taken by the physician and photographer Carl Curman in the end of the 19th century on a trip to Norway, were found in the archives some years ago. They were digitized this year and presented as […]

Unidentified location in Norway. By: Carl Curman I´m very pleased to report that the photos we uploaded in the beginning of this week has been identified by a Flickr community member. The location is Tonsaasen Sanatorium in Valdres, Norway. We got a great response with over 7000 views on our account over the 9th and […]

Ardre ödekyrka (?) avtecknad av Lars Cedergren 1816-1830. Jag berättade i ett tidigare inlägg om två bildsamlingar ur arkivet med akvarellerade teckningar av J. W. Gerss och Lars Cedergren, som nu är digitaliserade och finns att titta på i Kulturmiljöbild. Gerss och Cedergren dokumenterade bland annat kyrkoruinerna i Visby och några andra ödekyrkor på Gotland […]

Update (090327): I miscalculated some of the stats. Photographer: Carl Curman We went public with our photographs  on Flickr Commons late the 17th March (CET). Here´s the stats until 26 March: Views: 82 300 Comments: 121 156 Favourites: 449 546 The feedback from the Flickr community exceeded all expectations. Thanks indeed! :) Don´t miss the […]