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).
Blyertsskiss. Kvinna i helfigur i profil, Floda. Ur Skissbok av J.V. Wallander Nordiska museet föremål (arkivet) invnr. NM.0053744
1 January 1851
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Porträtt av Carl Henric Nordenskjöld, underlöjtnant vid Smålands grenadjärbataljon I 7.
1 January 1851
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Theodor Härdelin, kapten vid Hälsinge regemente I 14.
1 January 1851
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Stereobild med motiv av Kristallpalatset, Crystal Palace vid Världsutställningen i London 1851.
1 January 1851
Tekniska museet
Stereoskopisk daguerreotyp med motiv av skulptur i Crystal Palace vid Världsutställningen i London efter dess flytt till Sydenham 1854 då Negretti and Zambra fick fick exklusiv rätt att fotografera utställningen.
1 January 1851
Tekniska museet
Stereoskopiskt fotografi.
Staty av "Massacre of the Innocents". Crystal Palace.
1 January 1851
Tekniska museet
Stereoskopiskt fotografi.
Staty av "The Toilet of Atalanta". Crystal Palace.
1 January 1851
Tekniska museet
32 ft Barge. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a 14-oared 32 ft Barge. Annotation dated October 1852, listing the dockyards to which copied were sent.
Originally dated: 7 January 1851, later amended to 1853
National Maritime Museum
'Lake of Acoleo [Laguna de Aculeo], Chile, Jany 11th 1851'. No. 48 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This is the third of seven drawings (PAI4653-PAI4659) which reco
11 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Suspension Bridge of hide thongs (but repaired with chain) over the Maypu, five leagues south of Santiago, Chile, Jany 11th 1851'. No. 47 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as
11 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
'The Cuesta de Chacabuco, looking towards San Felipe de Aconcagua [Chile], Jany 14th 1851'. No. 50 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This is the fifth of seven drawi
14 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Two Leagues from Santa Rosa [de Los Andes, Chile], Jany 14th 1851' [with the Andes and Aconcagua]. No. 51 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The inscription continue
14 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Callina [Colina], 15 miles north of Santiago, Jany 13th 1851' [Chile]. No. 49 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This is the fourth of seven drawings (PAI4653-PAI465
15 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Between San Felipe de Aconcagua and Quillota, Chile, Jany 16th 1851'. No. 52 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This is the last of seven drawings (PAI4653-PAI4659)
16 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Sheerness Dockyard from stern port of the 'Trafalgar', 25 January 1851; (Verso) 'Monarch' at Sheerness from the 'Trafalgar' 29 January 1851. No. 7 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed top left: 'Sheern
January 1851
National Maritime Museum
Beschrijving van het schilderij Satire op de berechting van Johan van Oldenbarnevelt door Cornelis Saftleven uit 1663
15 March 1851
Rijksmuseum
Petition from Citizens of New York Asking that Slavery and the Slave-trade may be Expressly Prohibited, 03/25/1851
Taken 25 Mar 1851
The U.S. National Archives
Petition from Citizens of New York Asking that Slavery and the Slave-trade may be Expressly Prohibited, 03/25/1851 (page 1 of 2)
Taken 25 Mar 1851
The U.S. National Archives
De schuttersmaaltijd in de Voetboog- of St. Jorisdoelen te Amsterdam ter viering van het sluiten van de vrede van Munster, 18 juni 1648
4 April 1851
Rijksmuseum
The Musquito Cutter Yacht- in stays. R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Print
14 Apr 1851
National Maritime Museum
The Secret R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Stored in mount with PAD6564.
14 Apr 1851
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. Plate 1 Xarifa Yachting Scene off Cowes, Isle of Wight. Print
1 May 1851
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty (with) HM Yacht Fairy and Dryad. Hand-coloured etching and aquatint inscribed 'The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty
1 May 1851
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour. The Victory Saluting Her Majesty. Hand-coloured etching and aquatint inscribed 'The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty'. HMS Yacht Fairy is shown wi
1 May 1851
National Maritime Museum
HMS 'Daphne' off Cape Horn, 28 May 1852. No. 63 (and last) in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image; 'Cape Horn, May 28th 1852'. Fanshawe left Panama about 20 March 1852, at
28 May 1852
National Maritime Museum
The Schooner Yacht, Nancy Dawson, R.T.Y.C... built for the Late Robt Shedden, Esq. Who died on board at Mazatlan, 16 Novr 1849, whilst cruising in Search of Sir John Franklin's expedition. The only Yacht that ever rounded Point Barrow, and Circumna
2 Jun 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver's Island, June 28th 1851' [Canada]. No. 53 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This drawing is reproduced in Fanshawe's 1904 bi
28 June 1851
National Maritime Museum