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Sweet 16 - A Golden Birthday for Flickr Commons

by The Library of Congress

On January 16, 2024, we celebrate the Flickr Commons' 16th birthday as a gold mine for pictures. Enjoy these pictorial scenes featuring a "golden" or "sixteen" connection (some are subtle!).

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Golden Bird of Paradise (LOC)

A classic-style McDonald's restaurant, whose trademark "golden arches" permeate the building itself rather than standing alone, in Cape Girardeau, a southeast Missouri city of about 40,000 people on the Mississippi River (LOC)

[Image from LOOK - Job 62-9804 titled Hayley Mills] (LOC)

[Trademark registration by H. W. Mott for Golden Rod brand Baking Powder] (LOC)

Oberne, Hosick & Co.'s sweet sixteen soap (LOC)

[Graphic design drawings for Barricini Candy packages.] (LOC)

Mrs. [...]Benda, wife of the famous "Benda Masques," in a costume known as the "The Golden Goddess." The masque and costume are both done by Benda (LOC)

Prize golden Hamburg grapes (LOC)

Batavia, New York. Three boys, all sixteen years old, and William B. Sloan who is looking out for the boys while they work in the harvest. They will return to school later in the year (LOC)

A grocery window (LOC)

Sixteen-horse combine. Whitman County, Washington (LOC)

Prospector taking material left in rocker which he will place in pan for the recovery of the gold which it contains. Pinos Altos, New Mexico (LOC)

Fog rolls across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California (LOC)

[Sixteen vignettes from the lives of French balloonists, Albert and Gaston Tissandier] (LOC)

[Innsbruck, the Golden Porch, Tyrol, Austro-Hungary] (LOC)

Interior view of the long air return passage in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory ... (LOC)