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February 3, 2019 7:44 AM   Subscribe

Before he died in 2005, Philadelphia city planner Edmund Bacon donated hundreds of photos to the Fisher Fine Arts Library. The photos arrived without identification, so now the library is making the collection available to the public via Flickr hoping that crowdsourcing will provide the answers. [link]
posted by cashman (6 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
Very nice.
Reminds me of when Flickr hosted similar projects with world museums, back in the pre-Instagram day.
posted by doctornemo at 8:05 AM on February 3, 2019


Many fountains.
posted by freakazoid at 8:49 AM on February 3, 2019


These really make me wish it was summer.
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:26 AM on February 3, 2019


They should probably check with his son?
posted by The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal at 11:32 AM on February 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I was about to say, Bridge... and the collection has a Bacon Number of 1.
posted by aurelian at 7:34 PM on February 3, 2019


Of all the days to choose to upload a bunch of photos to Flickr for a crowdsourcing project and not pay the $50 for a Pro account…

(Tomorrow is the scheduled date for the great purge of large non-Pro accounts.)
posted by enf at 8:41 AM on February 4, 2019


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