The Flickr Foundation is delighted to welcome Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library to Flickr Commons. They are the oldest and largest university in Hungary. Their Faculty of Law was founded in 1667.
“Spy signal in key”
This is our first partner from Hungary and they have already shared 4,400 glass slides from the beginning of the 20th century which were digitized by them thanks to a grant from the National Cultural Fund. The slides, used as teaching aids in the instruction of forensic science, crime scene investigation, forensic photography and evidence technology, were (re)discovered in a basement during Covid.
“Pyramid and Sphinx, Egypt”
They include “criminal case studies, field photo documentation, forensic instruments, laboratory recordings and contemporary educational illustrations.”
From Dániel Takács, head of the library “such slide sets existed throughout the country at the beginning of the 20th century, but few such collections have survived at the Hungarian universities (as far I know of course), and most of those that do are smaller or incomplete.”
“Tattooed”
You can help!
Their grant supported the digitization part, but not metadata creation. You can help by adding tags and geolocation data in Flickr.com – community contribution and conversation remains the heart of the Flickr Commons program, and you can see what’s happened recently and what people are talking about using the Commons Explorer we built.
“Sing Sing flag production”
If you recognize an image, or a location, or can read the languages on the slides (which come in many languages and offer a translation), please leave a tag or a comment!
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