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I just came across a great resource for bloggers to tap for use in their posts.

The Library of Congress has always been a favorite resource of mine for images but the loc.gov destination has not always been the most user friendly resource. Well, now in conjunction with our online friend Flickr, it is now.

The LOC Flickr page gives you a good overview.

The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections. Please add tags and comments, too! More words are needed to help more people find and use these pictures.

By way of background, Library of Congress staff often make digital versions of our popular image collections available online as quickly as possible by relying primarily on the identifying information that came with the original photos. That text can be incomplete and is even inaccurate at times. We welcome your contribution of names, descriptions, locations, tags, and also your general reactions.

Here is an example of the types of pictures you can find there to use. Quite frankly, some of the photos are so great that you’d be tempted to write posts around them just to use the great images.

rutlandvtfair.jpg

mcconnell-cann.jpg

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