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• theturtle commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  "Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist..." I am very glad the US Army archived all those head. It must be a cool job....
• blakewest commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  zomg "The glory of manhood is strength..." http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/3300107484/in/set-72157614213926219/...
• mrhode commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  Creative Commons is selected because Flickr doesn't have a 'public domain' option. And actually Boing Boing itself broke the story about these photographs well over a year ago. The National Library of Medicine put their half of the old Army Medical Museum & Library's collection online years ago - http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en...
• mrhode commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  Also, regarding "Working after hours, his team has posted a curated selection of almost 800 photos on the service already, without the express permission of the Army. " - originally we were not blocked from Flickr and uploaded them as we ran across them or someone asked for them. That changed last year as Flickr began being blocked. And the 'express permission' is being misunderstood - what we have not yet gotten permission for is joining Flickr Commons along with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. Flickr asked us to join the Commons last year....
• mrhode commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  Finally, Boing Boing is blocked as well so you won't get real-time answers to your questions....