Earlier this week, the U.S. Library of Congress made a huge splash on the web when they announced that they had decided to collaborate with Flickr and share their photo collection on the web. With one of the largest publicly-held photo collections in the world, this is not only big news for The Library of Congress, but it is quite exciting for web users who now have easy access to a collection that tells a compelling story of the people who built the country to our south.