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).
Rehearsal of a French Invasion as Performed before the Invalids at the Islands of St Marcou on the Morning of ye 7 of May 1798 (caricature). Hand-coloured.
18 May 1798
National Maritime Museum
Plan of the Bay of Kossier, latitude 26°, 6' N, longitude 34°, 5' E, variation N°, 15' W by W.H. Dobbie 1799. From Admiral Blankett's collection, obligingly communicated by Sir Thomas Troubridge Bart &c. to whom this pl
18 May 1802
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital. For Dr Hughson's Description of London. An engraving of Greenwich Hospital, after Robert Schnebbelie, produced for Dr Hughson's 'Description of London'.
18 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital. For Dr Hughson's Description of London. Technique includes engraving. See.....another copy.
This print of the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich was published in Dr Hughson's 'Description of London'.
18 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Serpent (cancelled 1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore & aft platforms for the Serpent (cancelled 1810), a 16-gun Ship Sloop building at Sheerness Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].
18 May 1808
National Maritime Museum
Serpent (cancelled 1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for the Serpent (cancelled 1810), a 16-gun Ship Sloop building at Sheerness Dockyard.
The quarterdeck was to be lengthened and the carronade port to be as per the draught.
Signed b
18 May 1808
National Maritime Museum
Serpent (cancelled 1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for the Serpent (cancelled 1810), a 16-gun Ship Sloop building at Sheerness Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].
18 May 1808
National Maritime Museum
Serpent (cancelled 1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for the Serpent (cancelled 1810), a 16-gun Ship Sloop building at Sheerness Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].
18 May 1808
National Maritime Museum
Serpent (cancelled 1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for the Serpent (cancelled 1810), a 16-gun Ship Sloop building at Sheerness Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].
18 May 1808
National Maritime Museum
'Minotaur' (1816). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the midship section with diagrams illustrating the method of attaching the beams to the sides for 'Minotaur' (1816), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
18 May 1815
National Maritime Museum
Lord Nelson's Destruction of the Danish Fleet at Copenhagen, April 2 1801. Technique includes etching.
18 May 1816
National Maritime Museum
Qalasirssuaq (Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), circa 1832/5-1856. A half-length portrait showing the sitter in two poses, wearing a black jacket with a white shirt and wing collar and a black tie. On the left he is facing slightly to the right and looks for
probably 1851
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1835-05-18
18 May 1835
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
A view of the Suspension Bridge central supports at Rouen. A paper calotype negative. An elevated view, probably take from Talbot's hotel window, over the tops of trees towards the central cast iron supports of the Suspension Bridge at Rouen. To the
15-18 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
Looking across the Seine at Rouen. A paper calotype negative. A view from a quay at Rouen looking across the River Seine. In the foreground are stacks of barrels, bales and boxes. A number of brigs, with their lower yards scandalized (set at an acute a
15-18 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
The quayside at Rouen, looking across the Seine.. A waxed paper calotype negative. A view from a quay at Rouen looking across the River Seine. In the foreground are stacks of barrels, bales and boxes. A number of brigs, with their lower yards scandaliz
15-18 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
View of the Suspension Bridge at Rouen through the masts of merchant ships.. A waxed paper calotype negative (yellowed). An elevated view, possibly taken from Talbot's hotel window, looking through the masts of five merchant ships towards the first
15-18 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
Launch of HMS Royal Albert screw steamer, 131 guns, at Woolwich, May 13, 1854. Portside view. Ship launches on the Thames were always popular public spectacles, drawing huge crowds to witness the event. 'Royal Albert' was a first-rate screw stea
18 May 1854
National Maritime Museum
Launch of Her Majestys Iron Armour-plated Steam Frigate Resistance 18 guns 3668 tons from Messrs Westwood, Baillie, Campbell & Cos, London Yard, Isle of Dogs, April 11th 1861. The launch of the iron armour-plated steam frigate 'Resistance'.
18 May 1861
National Maritime Museum
T. Estrada Palma will this week be installed first president of the Free Republic of Cuba (LOC)
Taken 18 May 1902
The Library of Congress
Dominee Kieboom en kerkeraad zitten en staan opgesteld in de Maartenskerk. Zittend van links naar rechts: A.C. Kaasjager; A.D. van Overeem; dominee Kieboom; C. van Dee; F.D.Ubens. Staande van links naar rechts: G.J. van Voorden; A.J.Haverkamp; A. van de W
18 May 1911
Stadskasteel Zaltbommel
Boek. Door Gerrit de Vries Az. - Uitgever: Amsterdam : C.G. van der Post, 1865. - 104 p. ; 29x24 cm. - Reeks: (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Letterkunde, ISSN 0065-5511 ; dl. 3). - Met reg. - Kaart 80x6
18 May 1912
CODA Museum
Acting Corporal Henry Arthur Alexander Lines 8495, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Buissons d\'azalées et de rhododendrons en fleurs longeant un chemin menant de la forêt bleue à la forêt dorée, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 579
18 mai 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Captain Duncan Campbell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 18 May 1915 Killed in action France Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harold Edwards Huntriss. Unit: 1st Battalion (attached to 2nd Battalion), Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 18 May 1915 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Noel (Neil?) Guthrie. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 18 May 1915, Western Front.
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Montagu Arthur Finch Cotton. Unit: 6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Rifles). Death: 18 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Montague Arthur Finch Cotton , London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Percival Leonard Fosbury 1194, London Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fraser VD. Unit: Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 18 May 1915, Festubert, Western Front.
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Steel Davidson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 18 May 1915 Killed in action during the Battle of Festubert Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges , Australian Imperial Force
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Llewellyn Morris Bucknill MID. Unit: 105th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 May 1915 From wounds received 16 May 1915 Fesubert Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Roger Wingate White. Unit: Commanding Officer, 364th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 May 1915 Killed in Action in the trenches near Ypres Western Front
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Donald Macallister Allard 73. Unit: A Company, 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 18 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward Thomas Atkins 16123, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick George Denton 16104, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Cecil Harwood 1846, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Lawrence John Millage 1401, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Percy Howard Steane 2631, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Harry Sidwell 1343, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Leonard Cooper 1788, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Saddler Edward Dyer 1327. Unit: 2nd Brigade Ammunition Coloumn, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 18 May 1915 Egypt and Palestine
Died 18 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sydney Maurice Gregory , London Regiment
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Arthur Frederick Bellringer 662, 2nd Rifle Brigade
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Stoker 1st Class Harry Thomas Tucker SS/105438, HMS Brilliant
Died 18 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Alice Williams, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 18 May 1916.
Died 18 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Alice Williams, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 18 May 1916.
Died 18 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain A Mitchell MC. Unit: No. 4 Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 18 May 1916 Western Front
Died 18 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald Cumberland Green. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 18 May 1916, Arras, Western Front.
Died 18 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Massif d\'arbustes et eremurus en fleurs, situés en bordure est du marais et vus en direction du nord, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 754
18 mai 1916
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Massif d\'arbustes et gunnera situés en bord « d\'étang » , à l\'est du marais, vu en direction du nord, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 755
18 mai 1916
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Près du Marais, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 752
18 mai 1916
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Ernest Harston 14/1365, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 18 May 1916
Lives of the First World War