A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee (LOC)
This is unbelievingly cool. Flickr has begun a collaboration with the Library of Congress called the Flickr: The Commons. The stated goal being:
Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection.
The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.
This needs little introduction if you just click through and check out the rich library of images. I'm thinking some flickr widget-ing is in order to explore these beautiful photos.
In case you're curious the Library of Congress has as blog.
Thanks to foo for pointing me to TechCrunch.