This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
Lance Corporal Alfred Dawson 8345, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 18 April 1915
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Lieutenant Charles Mervyn Payton , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 18 April 1915
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Lieutenant Frederick Rennell Thackeray , West Riding Regiment
Died 18 April 1915
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Private Hermanns Bertram Rupert Alphonse De Leur 4661, Royal West Kent
Died 18 April 1915
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Private Charles Beckett S/8579, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 18 April 1915
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Private Theodore Flaxman 1674, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1915
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Private Walter Barker 14949, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 18 April 1915
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Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter, VC , King's Liverpool Regiment
Died 18 April 1916
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Private Arthur Elkington Snewing 908, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1916
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Private Bertram Reginald Buck 10396, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1916
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Private Gabriel Alexander Graham 4735, British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 April 1916
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Driver Alexander Mitchell 636197, Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
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Gunner William Christopher White 61562, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
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Leading stoker Thomas Cook 297160, H.M.S. "Victory II"
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Benjamin James Finbow G/15412, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Christopher Grosvenor 16797, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Geoffrey Wall Skeete M2/178358, Army Service Corps
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Harold Foxlow 70663, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Henry John Rouillier 9447, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1917
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Private Leo Belleau Le Boutillier 65553, Canadian Infantry
Died 18 April 1917
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Rifleman Horace Frederick Larbey 4791, London Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
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Serjeant Reginald Malyn 3841, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 18 April 1917
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Lieutenant Francis Alexander Bewsher , Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 April 1918
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Major Hugh Alexander Leslie Rose, D.S.O. , Royal Artillery/staff
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Arthur George Longley 9962, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Edward John Nightingale 517055, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Edward Massey Merchant 27388, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Francis Isaac Burnett 57944, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Frank Jones , Soldier Number: 46397, Rank: Private, Corps: South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Frederick Sutton 534256, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 18 April 1918
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Private George William Adcock 44366, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 18 April 1918
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Private George Williamson S/16006, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 18 April 1918
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Private John William Sayer VC G/14498, The Queen's Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Joseph Ethelbert R Huddart 32882, Durham Light Infantry
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Reuben Vaughan 26062, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Stephen Jones 3/11352, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 18 April 1918
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Private Terence Edward Dean 17390(Incomplete), Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Private William Joseph Winn 10627, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant Charles Frederick Saunders , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant Godfrey Burnside Hudson , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant Jacques Valleton de Boissiere , British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Serjeant Fred Rooke 242659, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Serjeant John Yates 202468, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1918
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Air Mechanic 2nd Class William Frank Dibley 281033, Aircraft Repair Depot (Donibristle)
Died 18 April 1919
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Driver Andrew Kay Ferguson T4/040852, Army Service Corps
Died 18 April 1919
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Private Walter Theopilus Stapleton 11614, British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 April 1920
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Sergeant Major Frank Lamdin MBE 798, Royal Flying Corps
Died 18 April 1931
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Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani , British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 April 1945
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Staff Sergeant Charles Alfred CLARK 50539 , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 18 April 1955
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Temporary Brigadier General Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton , Lancashire Fusiliers Attached Royal Flying Corps
Died 18 April 1958
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