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).
Able Seaman Harold Parker R/143. Unit: Nelson and Drake Battalions, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arthur Benedict E. Hillas. Unit: 1st Company, 7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Cyril Walter Keenan Hook. Unit: 16th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Company Sergeant Major Charles W. Greig 6128/6706/292861. Unit: "A" Company, 1st/7th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 23 April 1917, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Alexander Burnett 201406. Unit: 14th Platoon, D Company, 1st/4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner J S Lapidge 40663. Unit: 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner William Henry Holmes 543. Unit: 36th, 54th and 56th Battery, Siege Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 April 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John Flinders Robinson 3390. Unit: 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 April 1917 Dies from wounds at Lagnicourt Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John Kidd 202715. Unit: 5th Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 wounded and missing, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal William Henry Peck 25397. Unit: 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Savage Nesbitt Savage-Armstrong DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, Secondary regiment: Commanding 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle Western
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Stanley Stephens. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Milne Ballantyne Welsh. Unit: 7th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lt Col Scott, the son of Sir John and Lady Scott, received his commission with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was commanding 8 Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry when he was killed in action, aged 38, on 23 April 1917. Lt Col Scott is buried at
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Major Frank William Dust MC. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front. Son of William and Margaret Mellor Dust, of 9, Gladstone Rd., Ranmoor, Sheffield.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert James Cross 27573. Unit: 16th Platoon, D Company, 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action near Oppy Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Catto 202632. Unit: 12th Platoon, C Company, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Kilgour Webster 201865. Unit: Sniper Section, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Wounded and Missing in Action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private C Tucker 26608. Unit: 4th Company, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Cecil Harold Lawson 33347. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing near Vimy. Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private David Ross 202703. Unit: 6th Platoon, B Company, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Eli Mitchell 201630/4707. Unit: East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest William Dawson 27536. Unit: 12th Platoon, C Company, 7th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front. Son of J. and S. Dawson, of 29, Morris Avenue, Manor Park, Essex.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick S Brittain 16059. Unit: 4th and 8th Battalions, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Albert Webb G/22206. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Cranston Pringle 351560. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Silvester Cooke G/37051. Unit: 6th Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Gordon Frank Caws G/37056. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John B. W. Haggart 28774. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 23 April 1917, missing in action, Arras, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John McAdam Ritchie 25804. Unit: 9th Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Thompson 11948. Unit: ACompany, 2nd Platoon, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
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Private Thomas S. M. Grant 5403/202122. Unit: 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917, missing in action, Arras, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Ewart Sims 57686. Unit: 18th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 23 April 1917 Killed in action at Battle of Arras Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Lyall 201982. Unit: A Company, 1st Platoon, 1st/4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Neil Aitken 351676. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 23 April 1917 Rouex near Arras Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Pte Williamson was born in 1877 near Ullswater in the Lake District and was a keen mountaineer. Although offered a commission, he refused, preferring to continue to serve in the ranks of A Company. Williamson was killed in action, aged 41, near Armentie
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arthur Richard Henry. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert Turner. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached 7th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant David Trench. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edmund Faithfill Peer. Unit: 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Frank William Hoare. Unit: 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917, killed in action at Avion near Lens, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Hood Lofthouse. Unit: East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing at Arras Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gerald Dicey. Unit: Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 23 April 1917 Wounded and Missing in action
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Douglas Cowl. Unit: 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Kennedy. Unit: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), attached 7th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 missing at Monchy le Preux, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Robert Mungall. Unit: Royal Scots. Missing Arras Western Front April 23rd 1917 at Battle of Arras
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Wilfrid Anthony Earle. Unit: 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Killed in action Arras Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Signaller Albert Ernest Hole 21745. Unit: 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 23 April 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Signaller William Gladstone Tyldesley 46598. Unit: 17th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 23 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 23 April 1917
Imperial War Museum