The Flickr Commons project has been working some of the biggest public photo libraries to get their a selection of their archives online.

There are collections from Library of Congress, The Smithsonian in the US, Imperial War Museum in the UK to name just a few.

Looking through, it is quite surprising to see the rich document of every day life and fashion that has been captured.

Have a sift through and see what you find.

I have been looking the tag 1910s - and have discovered some style gems.

For the lesser known people that have been photographed, I am always fascinated by who they really were, where they came from, where happened to them after the photo was taken.
So much crystallized in a moment...

Some randomly selected favourites:
flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2808253185/
flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2677417507/
flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515737945/

A very elegant portrait with a poignant backstory to remind us of the huge tragedy of war:
flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/3019013014/

And some other social scenes:
flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3072384397/
flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3047673479/
flickr.com/photos/library_of_virginia/2898496299/ (love the little girl's outfit!)
flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179931268/
flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3129861172/ (strange scene)

My favourite so far!
flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2583389433/ (love how children were dressed to be miniatures of their parent's style - look at the details of both of their outfits!)

over 4 years ago