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The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has become the first museum in the world to release historical photographs for access as part of Flickr’s Commons Project.

The Commons is an attempt to share with the world’s public photography
archives, while at the same time allowing users to add tags to these
photos. The first photos the Powerhouse have put up form part of the Tyrrell Collection,
a series of glass plate negatives by Charles Kerry (1857-1928) and
Henry King (1855-1923), two of Sydney’s principal photographic studios
at the time.

Thanks to danw for bringing this to our attention.