We’ve uploaded a few new collection albums to our Flickr account! All of our Flickr account albums are curated to between 25 and 50 images that represent the collections. Check out all of our albums.
The newest collection is 50 curated bookplates from our RBSC bookplates collection. Here are a few of the images up on Flickr now.
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Notes:The family business started in London in 1792 and was called WH Smith & Son from 1846 and WH Smith & Son Ltd from 1929.
Date: 1910
Notes: Woman is Mnemosyne, personification of memory in Greek mythology, or Vigilanza
The other new collections include:
Epigraphic Squeezes (added to Flickr in November). Learn more about how we digitized the collection in our blog Digitizing the Ancient Past.
Date: 199-100 BCE
Alternative Title: De Hestaeensibus
Category: Decrees and laws dated to the second century
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Date: 440-439 BCE
Category: Tables of Hellenotamiae
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Cuneiform Tablets and Papyri (added to Flickr in October)- It’s the oldest collection we have on Flickr – dating up to Learn more about the provenance of our ancient collections by checking out our other blog posts: Relics from a Lost Age: Cuneiform Tablets & Provenance, Part 2: Mysterious Histories, Discover Lost Ancient Egyptian Papyri!
[Letter from an unknown writer to his or her mother] [Page1] Alternative Title:[Greek papyri fragment] Date: [between 100 and 199?]
[cuneiform tablet A] obverse Date: [between 2029 and 1982 BCE] Description: Originating from Umma, the tablet dates from the reign of Shulgi (also known as Dungi), King of Ur, between 2029 and 1982 B.C.E. It records the receipt of rent paid in kind to the temple authorities.
And last but not least One Hundred Poets Collection (added to Flickr in August).
Date: K_ka 4 [1847]
Creator: Ryokutei Senryu_ shu_ ; Katsushika Manji R_jin, Ichiyo_sai Toyokuni ga
Date: Meiji kanotomi [1881]
Creator: Okada Ry_saku ; It_ Seisai egaku