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).
Pige fra Jolster i Sandfjord." En kvinna i Norsk sockendräkt
1 January 1853
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Piger fra Bergens omegn." Två kvinnor poserar i norska folkdräkter
1 January 1853
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Porträtt av Adolf Malcolm Åberg, kapten vid Jönköpings regemente I 12.
Se även AMA.0009328.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Adolf Malcolm Åberg, kapten vid Jönköpings regemente I 12.
Se även AMA.0009344.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Carl Anders Theodor Theorin, löjtnant vid Jönköpings regemente I 12.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Charles Emil Rudbeck, överste vid Hälsinge regemente I 14.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Charles Emil Rudbeck, överste vid Hälsinge regemente I 14.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Claes Gustaf Rålamb, underlöjtnant vid Andra livgardet I 2.
Se även AMA.0008398.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Ludvig August Toll, löjtnant vid Södra skånska infanteriregementet I 25.
1 January 1853
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Prins Gustaf i Uppsala.¨
Kapten Fredrik Roos på bryggan. fru Roos på nedre däck.
1 January 1853
Sjöhistoriska museet
23 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for an 8-oared 23 ft Cutter.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
25 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for a 10-oared 25 ft Cutter.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for a 10-oared 28 ft Cutter.
Annotated in pencil with record where copies were sent to: dated 1859, 1860, and 1861.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12 oared, 28 ft Pinnace. Annotation in pencil dated 1880 relates to a 28 ft Pinnace and a 26 ft Pinnace.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
The Kent 1000 Tons being towed past Gravesend. A pier-side scene by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton showing the ‘Kent’ (with passengers, in starboard-bow view) being towed past Gravesend by a paddle steamer on the right of the image. Her sails are in
19 Jan 1853
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Gibraltar from the Queen of Spain's Chair, 22 January 1853; (verso, undated) St Angelo and Dockyard Creek, Malta. No. 31 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) A view southward towards Gibraltar and the Atlas mountains of the Moroccan coast be
January - May/June1853
National Maritime Museum
Chapel of St Matthias, Barbados with the graves of the officers of HMS Dauntless (with inset portrait of HMS Dauntless. Hand-coloured.
Feb 1853
National Maritime Museum
The Arrow Vice Commodore Chamberlayne, R.V.Y.C. Published in Hunt's Yachting Magazine February 1853. Print
Feb 1853
National Maritime Museum
Credential of Senator Sam Houston of Texas, 32d Congress, 02/10/1853
Taken 10 Feb 1853
The U.S. National Archives
The Brilliant Commodore G H Ackers, R.V.Y.S. Published in Hunt's Yachting Magazine for April, 1853. finished last in the 1st American Cup Race. Hand-coloured.
Apr 1853
National Maritime Museum
Fleet of the Water Club of Corke Harbour 1738. Mounted with PAH0437.
May 1853
National Maritime Museum
Two gentlemens boats Members of the Water Club of Corke Harbour 1738. Hunt's Yachting Magazine. Mounted with PAH0438.
May 1853
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) The 'Napoléon', French 100-gun screw ship, and the 'Jupiter', French 80, in Besika Bay, July 1853; (verso) a coastal magazine(?) on a headland, 21 May 1853. No. 32 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Two separate sketc
May - July 1853
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Leander, 50 guns, appointed to convey the Royal Commissioners to the Exhibition at New York. This tinted lithograph is a portrait of the 4th rate, 50-gun Leander (1848), which was appointed to carry the Royal Commissioners to the Exhibition of the
25 May 1853
National Maritime Museum
The Lusitania a Portuguese Yacht. Published in Hunt's Yachting Magazine June 1853. Print
Jun 1853
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Yacht Maria The Property of J.C. Stevens Esqre Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Hand-coloured.
1 Jun 1853
National Maritime Museum
Sydney Cove, N S W Emigrants leaving the ship. To Oswald Bloxsome, Esq, Rangers, North shore, Sydney... by O W Brierly. Hand-coloured.; No 2.
1 Jun 1853
National Maritime Museum
Castle of Asia Entrance of Dardanelles. The old defensive forts called the Castle of Europe and Castle of Asia (on the northern and southern sides of the strait) are not at the entrance of the Dardanelles but some distance inside. They are the third of th
July-October 1853
National Maritime Museum
Evers, hard chine, lee board sloops on the Elbe with rigging and construction details, also other vessels under sail, a grapnel anchor and a lee board. Mounted with PAE6189.
Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Lighthouse on Pasha's Point, Gallipoli, at the entrance of the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara. This drawing is inscribed , 'Lighthouse Galipoli entrance of Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara, Pacha's Point, taken from a rock ...[?]'. It w
July-October 1853
National Maritime Museum
The Gipsy Queen R.Y.S. Sir H.B. Hoghton, Bart, Published in Hunt's Yachting Magazine July 1853. Print
Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
A lime barge on the Elbe, Hamburg, with construction and rigging details. Mounted with PAE6190.
11 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Elbe craft. One and two masted lee boarded, hard chine, vessels, details of bow and stern. Inscribed 'Blankanese'. Mounted with PAE6188.
12 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) The 'Ville de Paris', French flag ship, Besika Bay, 22 July 1853: (verso) The French fleet joining the English in Besika Bay, 14 June 1853. No. 33 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed 'Ville de Paris Flag ship, Besika Bay
June - July 1853
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Schooner Yacht Sverige 280 Tons, R.L.Y.C. Plate 8.
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm harbour with a castle tower and the Charles XIII 74 second view inset. original art: drawing
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm, a view across the harbour with timber pounds, towards Carl Johan church on Skeppsholmen, annotated. original art: drawing
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Panoramic view of Stockholm (left hand) with 859 and 860. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Panoramic view of Stockholm (right hand) with 860 and 861. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm harbour with Cathedral behind and much shipping. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Maeander 44 Guns. Signed by artist in plate. The HMS 'Meander' is shown prominently in the centre-right of the image. A small two-masted is shown in the background to the right of the subject vessel. To the left of the 'Meander'
20 Sep 1853
National Maritime Museum
Gondola loaded with a cargo of gourds. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all his travels, but it is
October 1853
National Maritime Museum
Gondola, loaded with grapes and peaches. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all his travels, but it i
October 1853
National Maritime Museum
Pumpkin, baskets, grapes [Oct 1853]. Mounted with PAE5744, PAE5746-PAE5747.
Oct 1853
National Maritime Museum
The Schooner - Yacht Czarina (210 Tons) J.T. Bayley, Esqr. Published in Hunt's Yachting Magazine October 1853. Vignette.
Oct 1853
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) The 'Sans Pareil' in Besika Bay, 3 October 1853 and the French steamer 'Mogador' towing the French 'Valmy' into the Dardanelles, 29 October 1853; (Verso) broadside studies of the French 'Jupiter', 'Jena
October 1853
National Maritime Museum