Yet another link

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Bill Murray
Hanno:

Quick question.
You post and host an awful lot of photos from a wealth of sites which I find very useful.

Bill, yes I know I am sad and should get a life ...

Originally posted by Bill Murray
Question is, has anyone ever put on this site or other similar ones the reference numbers or series of reference numbers for pics of interest so others don't have to spend the hours that I and for sure you, do to figure out where the good pics are?
I suppose the same would be true for the Pathe stuff that has cropped up and seems to be all the rage lately. Millions of images and the searches to find the good stuff would seem to me to be unproductive if each of us does their own search and does not share the info. Here, I don't mean the odd photo but perhaps which key words to use, which photo series yields a lot of stuff in a hurry and maybe which photographer to use in the search engine.

I always mention a full reference with any of the links to pictures I post on forums. Helps others (and myself) to find it back.

For the Australian War Memorial Collections Database, noting the Negative Number will enable anyone to find a picture again. It helps to quote the caption as well.

As for the British Pathé film stills, make sure to note the film ID and film title.

I have not found out (yet) how to uniquely identify and retrieve pictures from the Office of War Information Collection. For some reason it is not possible to search for a Digital ID provided with each photo once you find it.

Some other interesting online photo databases which I hope to explore sometime (after I'm retired, probably...):
- Hulton Getty
- U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
- U.S. Army Center of Military History
- National Archives of Canada
- New Brunswick at War
- State Library of Victoria

Hope this keeps you busy for a while

Regards,
Hanno

P.S.: I moved part of the Chevrolet staff car captured at Dunkirk thread into this one for relevance.