https://www.cnet.com/news/flickr-commons-photo-archives-will-survive-profitability-push/

"The historical photos up there are just priceless. I'd hate to lose them and i'd hate for the world to lose them, so I'm going to do everything in my power to protect them," said Don MacAskill, chief executive of SmugMug, the photography site that acquired Flickr earlier this year from Verizon's Yahoo.

The move is good news for institutions like the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, George Eastman Museum, New York Public Library, and NASA. The Flickr Commons is filled with photographs of everything from the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators to Australian teachers' physical training in 1923 to an English woman seeking the right to vote.