The GRI Is on Flickr

I’ve heard terrible, terrible things about how brutal the staff cuts at the Getty were for the hard working folks at the Getty Research Institute.  But you can’t keep the resourceful staff of the GRI down.  They’ve begun to contribute to The Flickr Commons, with two sets Postcards of Algiers, a Virtual Tour and Algiers Building Types, both great public resources to accompany Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City, which opens on May 19 (press release here).  All of the individual images in each set are really well labeled, and tagged, to boot.

At top: The Djemaa-Djedid Mosque Illuminated.  Photo by Rollet, July 14, 1907.  Part of the Cities and Sites Postcard collection.

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