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).
Portraits G.W. Evans and William Cox, 1813-1814
Taken some time in 1840
Royal Australian Historical Society
Sv/v fotografi bakom glas som klistrats på pappkartong med svart profilerat papper, liknande en ram.
Glasets ena hörn är spräckt.
Porträttet föreställer författaren och skalden Wilhelm von Braun (1813-1860).
Unde
1 January 1840
Bohusläns museum
Teckning av Fritz von Dardel. En hund sitter på bakbenen på ett bord och sträcker fram ett paket han bär i munnen mot en kvinna. "Vips vill härmed uttrycka att paketets innehåll är ämnadt till Annas lilla n&
1 January 1840
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Teckning av Fritz von Dardel. En kvinna lutar sig ut genom ett fönster och betraktar en gris som vill komma in. "Julgrisen ber att få en plats i jungfruburen."
1 January 1840
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Text på kortets baksida: "Fältläkare C. E Axenborg. Fältläkare och Regementsläkare vid Kgl. Bohusläns reg. Död 12 Maj 1857 72 år, 7 mån, gammal".
1 January 1840
Bohusläns museum
Memorial of a number of members of the bar in the State of Illinois, 01/06/1840 (page 1 of 2)
Taken 6 Jan 1840
The U.S. National Archives
Memorial of a number of members of the bar in the State of Illinois, 01/06/1840 (page 2 of 2)
Taken 6 Jan 1840
The U.S. National Archives
30 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12-oared 30 ft Pinnace. A poor paper dyeline copy of ZAZ7198.3 (see also ZAZ7198 for the original, and ZAZ7198.2 for another dyeline copy).
Original dated: 6 February 1840; tracing dated February 1951
National Maritime Museum
30 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12-oared 30 ft Pinnace. This is the original plan from which ZAZ7198.3 was traced in 1951, and ZAZ7198.1 and ZAZ7198.2 are dyeline copies of the tracin
Dated: 6 February 1840
National Maritime Museum
30 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12-oared 30 ft Pinnace. A poor paper dyeline copy of ZAZ7198.3 (see also ZAZ7198 for the original, and ZAZ7198.1 for another dyeline copy).
Original dated: 6 February 1840; tracing dated February 1951
National Maritime Museum
30 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12-oared 30 ft Pinnace. Two paper dyeline copies made from this tracing: ZAZ7198.1 and ZAZ7198.2. The plan was traced from an original, reference ZAZ71
Original dated: 6 February 1840; tracing dated February 1951
National Maritime Museum
The Rival Watermen (caricature). Plate no.2.
A satirical cartoonist uses tales of watermen’s rivalry to make a political point. Watermen had a long history of wrangling with passengers over fares and finding devious means of ousting their rivals. T
12 Feb 1840
National Maritime Museum
Slough. The 40ft reflector in process of demolition. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fearing the by then severely rotten frame might
3 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Slough. The 40ft reflector with all the woodwork down'. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fearing the severely rotten frame
5 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Slough. View of the garden of the 40ft reflector dismantled. From roof of Observatory'. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fe
19 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Monsieur Liszt. The Celebrated Pianist'. The full title of this caricature reads:
MONSIEUR LISZT
THE CELEBRATED PIANIST
Sketched at Mr J Parry's Concert May 8th 1840
Franz Liszt (1811-86) was a Hungarian pianist and composer giving conce
8 May 1840
National Maritime Museum
Rudder of the Royal George 30th May 1840. Drawn with the Camera Lucida for Miss Emma Codrington By Capt Basil Hall Ret. Drawing
30 May 1840
National Maritime Museum
Portrait of John Adams, alias John Wilkinson, Petty Officer, aged 78, Boatswain's Mate of the 'Agamemnon' (as Greenwich Pensioner). This is one of two versions of this portrait of the former boatswain's mate (1793-96) of Nelson's
June 1840
National Maritime Museum
Portrait of John Lovell, aged 70. Bargee on Thames (as Greenwich Pensioner). This portrait of Greenwich Pensioner John Lovell was drawn in June 1840, as were two versions of a related portrait of John Adams, alias John Wilkinson (see PAF6223 and PAH3992).
June 1840
National Maritime Museum
Ryde, Isle of Wight West of the Pier. Technique includes etching.
11 Jun 1840
National Maritime Museum
Rover (1853); Musquito (1852); Helena (1843); Pilot (1838); Snake (1832); Cygnet (1840); Rapid (1840). Scale: 1:192. Plan showing the sail plan for First Class Brigs, specifically for Rover (1853), and Musquito (1852), both 16-gun First Class Brigs. Pen
Circa June 1840
National Maritime Museum
To the Members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, this print of the Cutter Yacht Alarm (T. Wanhill Esqre.) winning the Silver Cup, June 25th 1840 (shows yacht Sabrina. This coloured lithograph shows the Alarm winning the Silver Cup on 25 June, 1840. The yach
Jul 1840
National Maritime Museum
Passed Midshipman US Navy. ' Full Dress: U.S. Military Magazine - Army & Navy, Vol. 1st pl4'. Hand-coloured.
1 Jul 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Curlew' (1840), ['Dispatch' (1841)?]. Scale: 1:32. A plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Curlew', a 37ft single-masted Revenue Cutter. If the pencil annot
17 August 1840
National Maritime Museum
Queen (1839); Algiers (cancelled 1840); Windsor Castle (1858); Frederick William (1860). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Queen (1839), a 110-gun First Rate, three-decker. The plan Algiers (cancelled 1840), and initially for
17 August 1840
National Maritime Museum
Proposed iron bulkheads for the holds of ships. Scale: 1:24 and 1:48. Plan showing a section, plan and profile of the bulkheads in the hold of a ship to illustrate the proposed method of fitting iron sheet bulkheads instead of wooden planks.
Signed J.
September 1840
National Maritime Museum
A Man of War Cutter of 10 Guns, as Bramble, &c. Sailing by the wind, on the Larboard tack - Ensign and Pendant flying. Print
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
City and suburbs of Canton by a native artist. Circuit of the walls about 7 miles, population about one & half million. Kwang-tung province 19.174.030. The Chinese Empire 360.279.897. Census in the 17th year of Kea-King AD 1812. Cover illustration on
1 October 1840
National Maritime Museum
Macao and the Monte Fort, Inner harbour, Cassa Gardens, Roman Catholic chapel. Fifth illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0060-PAD0063, PAD0065-PAD0066.
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
Macao, church, St Francisco Fort, opening of the Typa. Fourth illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0060-PAD0062, PAD0064-PAD0066.
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
Singapore Roads with the English residences, institution, etc. Third illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0060-PAD0061, PAD0063-PAD0066.
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
Singapore, view of a part of Campong-Clam, the Court-House, and Government Hill (taken from Princeps Hill). Second illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0060, PAD0062-PA
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
Singapore, view of Government Hill, the English burial ground and the Armenian church, First illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0061-PAD0066.
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
View of Macao from the Monte Fort near St Paul's church, Hermitage of Penha, St Jose College, Inner Harbour. Sixth illustration in pamphlet Six views of Singapore and Macao from drawings made on the spot in 1840. Bound in pamphlet with PAD0060-PAD006
1 Oct 1840
National Maritime Museum
Proclamatie van Willem II, in verband met de abdicatie van zijn vader, 1840
7 October 1840
Rijksmuseum
Brief aan de predikanten van de Protestantse Kerk met het verzoek om te bidden voor de nieuwe koning, 1840
8 October 1840
Rijksmuseum
Buitengewone Nederlandsche Staats-Courant. Donderdag, 8 October. No. 241. 1840
8 October 1840
Rijksmuseum
To Sir Simon H Clarke, Bart. this Print of his Schooner Kate, R.Y.S. in a Gale of Wind on the 4th of November 1840... is Dedicated by... W.J. Huggins. Hand-coloured.
1841
National Maritime Museum
Attack and capture of St Jean D'Acre by a combined squadron under Adm Sir Robert Stopford, 3rd Novr 1840. Signed by artist and dated, on reverse.
18 Nov 1840
National Maritime Museum
Attack and capture of St Jean D'Acre by a combined squadron under Adm Sir Robert Stopford, 3rd Novr 1840. Signed by artist and dated, on reverse.
21 Nov 1840
National Maritime Museum
Extract uit het Verbaal van den generaal der fortificatien, betreffende de dienst van het korps ingenieurs, gedurende het tijdvak van 1814 tot 1827.
24 November 1840
Rijksmuseum