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Image requests

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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/

Potentially notable pages suggested by TNA images

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  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.[1] 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/

License clarifications

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References

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  1. ^ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson, The eponym dictionary of mammals, John Hopkins University Press, 2009, p.236
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