June 16, 2008 -- Today, the Smithsonian is providing 800 images from 7 museums, research centers, and archives, including the Archives of American Art, to the Flickr Commons—a photo-sharing Web site. Flickr is one of the world’s largest online communities where people share their photographs with friends, family and the world.

The photos are a small, but broad ranging sample of the 13 million images in 700 collections at the Smithsonian—only a fraction of which have been digitized. During the next several months, the Smithsonian will provide more than 1,200 additional digital photographic images to Flickr.

View Portraits of Artists from the Archives of American Art on Flickr

View Smithsonian Institution Photostream on Flickr