Wikipedia:GLAM/The National Archives/Image requests

Request specific images or license information here!

Target: 50 articles to be improved using imagery from The National Archives - try to think of images that only TNA could supply and/or that is of interest to Wikipedians beyond the UK. See the TNA Flickr stream for ideas. Strike through the request once done using <s>and</s> tags.

1. 1960s in fashion - File:Londons Carnaby Street, 1969.jpg
2. Valor Ecclesiasticus - added illuminated page from Flickr
3. Iain Macleod - suggest http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5405425468/ or similar (a number of other good ones are tagged)
4. Dunmore's Proclamation - we have a better one. TNA to upload to Commons.
5. Book of Negroes - TNA to upload to Commons.
6. Grace Golden - fine example of her artwork at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3047452739
7. Susquehannock - TNA to supply from map image
8. Operation Ruthless - Suggest using this image
9. British official war artists - something like this?
10. Census in the United Kingdom - maybe Queen Victoria's census return? TNA to upload to Commmons.
11. Matâ'Utu Cathedral - pictured at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5033555374
12. Lord Alfred Douglas - we could look into the handwritten manuscript of In Excelsis.
13. Bussa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5856819097
14. Leofric, Earl of Mercia - the Earl can be seen top left in http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3045578231
15. Whitley Bay - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3047398921 - is a personal favourite
16. Bombing of Guernica - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3047461311/ - only on Spanish wikipedia at present I think
17. Taff Vale Railway - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3176103583
18. Caroline of Brunswick - fine example of pro-Caroline propaganda at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3182090363/ or indeed http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3311206029
19. Christopher Dresser - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3208858799/in/set-72157608416657334/ or TNA to consider
20. Henry IV of England - might benefit from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3458442517 ?
21. Alan Lennox-Boyd - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5405313090/
22. Edward Twining - suggest http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5424883461/
23. Robert Arundell - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5418116329/
24. Alfred Sharpe - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5404288499/
25. Sobhuza II - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5408910628/
26. Herbert Ponting - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5621280885/ or others taken by him?
27. Lillie Langtry - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/4838416268/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/4796118449/
28. Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/4464466809/
29. Tower Bridge - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5078110181/
30. Rebecca Riots - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3048286098/
31. Ernest Beoku-Betts - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5416962160/
32. Rukidi III of Toro - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5407901741/
33. Apollo Kironde - is this the man in http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5408449132/in/set-72157625974224008 ? No,Picture taken 5 years before he was born!
34. Julius Nyerere - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5404725611/
35. John Williamson (geologist) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5405312194/
36. Sukumar Sen (civil servant) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5418124393/
37. Charles Arden-Clarke - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5415844629/
38. Komla Agbeli Gbedemah - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5415843805/
39. Eastern Counties Railway - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3019117640
40. Empire Marketing Board - maybe http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5263978078/ , http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3020013602/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3047452735/

1. Arthur Salisbury Lawrance (1880-1965) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Somaliland Protectorate from 1932 to 1939. A subspecies of Salt's Dik-dik was named after him. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5418116743/
2. Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II / Nana Otumfuo Agyeman Prempeh II (1892-1970) was a Ghanaian Asante ruler -http://www.flickr.com/photos/31575009@N05/5416372614
3. Adam Sapi Mkwawa / Adam Sapi / Adam Sapi Mkwawa II (1920-1999) was Chief of the Hehe from 1940 to 1962 and the first Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania.
4. Phyllis Broughton (1862-1926) was a British actress. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5327264747/
5. HMS Daphne - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/3022644940/
6. HMS Griffon (1876) was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1876 and sold to the Board of Trade in 1891 as the hulk Richmond. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5033555382/

• File:Diphtheria vaccination poster.jpg had an incorrect (US) license. The TNA Catalogue record indicates that this is a "public record". I have changed the license to Commons:Template:PD-UKGov - can you confirm that this is correct? - PKM (talk) 19:44, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is indeed correct. Though the licence we will be using for our own uploads will likely be http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ --Mr impossible (talk) 11:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]