trying to avoid a tragedy of the commons, images

In which I discover and share the best images from wikimedia commons, Flickr commons and other like-minded digital repositories. We'll be mostly pulling historical images, but recent images in the public domain are fair game (for fair use)!

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Apollo Guidance Computer NOR-Gatter (Block2) Quelle: NASA (pd)

By Grabert at de.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

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A spice stall in Marrakech

April 2009

By Lebelot (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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A painting of the Fall River Line's steamboat Providence (launched 1866).

from Murphy, John F. (1896): Fifty Photographic Views of the Steamers of the Fall River Line, Rand McNally & Co., Chicago and New York.

By Fred Pansing [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Book of Lindisfarne, Szene: Hl. Matthäus, End of 7th century

British Museum

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

via Wikimedia

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Theodore Roosevelt Portrait Plate, ca. 1901

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library, Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University

via Flickr

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Canoe house, Ruviana, Solomon Islands. Note the cut for the stems. 1908

By George Brown, D.D. [Public domain], Haabet, via Wikimedia Commons

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Swan Hunters dry docks, Wallsend 26th March 1987. From left to right the docks hold a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker, a Royal Navy warship, a Nigerian registered cargo vessel and an off shore supply vessel.

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum, Reference Number: TWAS: DS.SWH.5.3.1.12.6

via Flickr Commons

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Flag of Tuvalu originally from the Open Clip Art website.

via Wikimedia Commons

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The May 10 1556 Istanbul (Constantinople) earthquake. Hand colored woodcut. Private collection, Prague. Colored woodcut Depicting damage in Istanbul from the May 10 1556 earthquake. Hagia Sophia dome and other buildings were heavily damaged, with many fatalities. A comet was sighted on March 5, 1556 and seen for 12 days. (Colored woodcut, Printed by Herman Gall in Nuremberg, 1556)

By Herman Gall [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Picture of graves decorated with flags at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2008.

By Remember (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Columbia Alumni, 6/4/13, Dr. Carrel (LOC)

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Photo shows alumni at the June 4, 1913 Columbia University commencement including Dr. Alexis Carrel in center with his face towards the camera. Carrel received an honorary degree at the commencement. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, June 4, 1913) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Flickr Commons

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A page of the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, an Aztec herbal composed in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badianus, illustrating the tlahçolteoçacatl, tlayapaloni, axocotl and chicomacatl plants, which were used to make a "remedy for a wounded body" in Aztec herbalism.

Ptcamn, via Wikimedia

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Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Lee, Russell (1903-1986), photographer. 1940 Oct.

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-24 (DLC) 93845501. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

via Flickr Commons

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InVesalius is an open source 3D medical imaging reconstruction software. This printscreen represents a cranium, acquired with Computed tomography, and reconstructed with InVesalius. It was generated under MacOS X.

By Tatiana alchueyr (InVesalius 3 software) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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This is the market where the storekeeper buys the food and brings it to his store near your house. Poster about wholesale food markets, by the New York Federal Art Project, 1936 or 1937.

By ...trialsanderrors (This is the market, WPA poster, ca. 1937) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Bradman and Stan McCabe take the field, 18/10/1932

by Sam Hood

From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au, via Flickr Commons

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A train on the narrow gauge Murtalbahn meeting a standard gauge train passing the bridge over river Mur at Unzmarkt, coloured picture postcard based on B/W photograph.

ca. 1900, Public Domain, via Wikimedia