Scores of gorgeous historic photos--from shots of early 20th century
baseball players to 1940s-era images of horse-drawn carts and factory
workers--showed up on Flickr this week, and the public is busy tagging
them in an effort to bring new context to the collection.
The labeling is part of a pilot project by the U.S. Library of Congress,
which is making 3,115 of its archival photos available for public
tagging in an attempt to bring a sort of "wisdom of the crowds"
intelligence to the photos' metadata.
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