Happy New Year to all lovers of old photographs and all friends and followers of Sepia Saturday. Since 2009, Sepia Saturday has been providing a platform for enthusiasts to share their old photographs with others throughout the world by means of our weekly theme-based blog. Although there always tends to be a theme, we have always emphasised that going off-theme was perfectly acceptable - the theme isn't really important - the old photographs are. Sepia Saturday is now in its 807th week and we start 2026 with a theme image that is not only an old photograph - it is a recognised work of art as well: Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photograph of a Californian agricultural worker.
The photograph comes from the Library of Congress collection of images on the Flickr Commons platform. Flickr Commons has been running a year longer than Sepia Saturday and has managed to bring together over 100 museums and archives from over 25 countries to share their photographic archives on-line. It is a wonderful resource and it has done so much to spread the understanding of the importance of our shared photographic history. The theme images for the next couple of years on Sepia Saturday will be drawn from the various collections available on Flickr Commons, and our first image is therefore from one of the founder institutions - the Library of Congress.
You can add to that joint photographic heritage by sharing an old photograph, whether it is a work of art or not, on Sepia Saturday by adding a link to the list below on or around Saturday 3rd January 2026.
Here are the other January theme images which all come from other Flickr Commons participating institutions.
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Some very solemn looking women in my family ancestry.
Some famous people had some good wisdom to share.
After a way-too-long blogging break, I'm happy to be back here with a new post about Uncle Fred and where he served in WWII during 1942-43 -- a story he was finally able to tell when censorship was lifted.
Portraits that tell a story is my theme this week.
Several family photos and stories. First one published on my blog for Sepia Saturday in 2010, soon after I started my blog.
For the new year I offer six artistic portraits, though technically they are not photographs. There is a small hint of music, too.
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