[Foundation-l] German Federal Archives: donation of 100, 000+ pictures

[Hay (Husky)]

Note that this topic is also being discussed on Commons-l.

I think this is a fantastic development, and hopefully a precedent for
many more institutions and archives to release their assets under a
free license.

-- Hay

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> News flash: German Federal Archives donate more than 100,000 pictures,
> uploading to Wikimedia Commons has started (CC-BY-SA).
> Some more details (in German):
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier
>
> The pictures are very important to close the lack of photographs from the
> 20th century. They do not only show Germans or places in Germany, although
> mostly. Many different subjects. Below some examples.
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_137-003033,_Togo,_Lome,_Verladen_von_Baumwollballen.jpg
> 1885: Ship loading of cotton, Lomé in Togo
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-1115-500,_Wien,_deutsche_Botschaft.jpg
> 1906: Vienna, German ambassy
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_116-424-046,_China,_Tsingtau.jpg
> 1912: German troops in Tsingtao, China
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_137-037542,_Westpreu%C3%9Fen,_Russlanddeutsche_Fl%C3%BCchtlinge.jpg
> 1920: Russia German refugees in Western Prussia
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0814-503,_Marga_von_Etzdorf.jpg
> 1930: Female pilot Marga von Etzdorf
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0121-500,_Berlin,_Bar_%22Eldorado%22.jpg
> 1932: Bar "Eldorado", Berlin
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_152-08-35,_Dachau,_Konzentrationslager,_Besuch_Himmlers.jpg
> 1936: Himmler and Hess visit Dachau
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-1280,_Russland,_Kessel_Tscherkassy.jpg
> 1944: Encirclement of Cherkassy, Russia
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-06420-0007,_Radrennfahrer,_finnische_Mannschaft.jpg
> 1950: Finnish cyclists at race Warsaw-Prague-Warsaw
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-03344-0005,_P._James.jpg
> 1955: English boxer P. James
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_175-Z02-00866,_Herbert_Wehner.jpg
> 1966: Herbert Wehner, then vice president of Social Democrats parliamentary
> group
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_B_422_Bild-0233,_Zivilschutz,_Hubschrauber_MBB_Bo_105.jpg
> 1979: German emergency helicopter
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1982-0109-013,_Katarina_Witt.jpg
> 1982: Katarina Witt
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0215-032,_LPG_Hohensch%C3%B6nhausen,_Besucher_aus_Nordkorea.jpg
> 1989: North Koreans visit an agricultural cooperative in GDR
>
> --
> Ziko van Dijk
> NL-Silvolde
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