I’ve just had a thoroughly enjoyable time browsing the National Library of Ireland and the New York Public Library’s Flickr sites of public domain photographs. Rudai 23’s Thing 3 introduced me to new photography sites that have Creative Commons licensing permissions including one called Pixabay. Typically, I go directly to the Creative Commons site and search there, but Thing 3 taught me how to go directly to Google Images and Flickr to search for CC images.
For this task, I decided to look for images in the Public Domain from my grandparents’ hometowns in Ireland and their newly adopted homes in New York City. After a bit of hunting and pecking at the National Library of Ireland’s Flickr site, I found images of both of my grandmothers’ hometowns. Glengarriff is a lovely village in County Cork where my maternal grandmother Mary Agnes grew up.
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, is close to where my paternal grandmother Molly grew up.
Both of them emigrated to New York City in the mid-1920’s to live with cousins who had already migrated several years earlier. Here are a few photos of New York in the 1930s–by which time both of them were married with kids of their own. Thanks to the NYPL Flickr site for these photos.
