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).
Corporal George Hinchliffe 11180, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 22 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Groupe de cuistots des brancardiers du 360e d\'infanterie, Hermin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, A 6 769
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Groupe des cuistots et laveurs de linge des brancardiers, Hermin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, A 6 770
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La façade nord du château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 165
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La façade nord du château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 71 785 X
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La façade sud de l\'église Notre-Dame, avec les pignons des bas-côtés et la chaire à prêcher extérieure, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 185
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Baudrairie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 176
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Baudrairie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 177
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Poterie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 168
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Poterie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 169
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Poterie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 170
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de la Poterie, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 71 786 X
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue de Paris, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 174
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue du Puis Pesé, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 166
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue d\'En-Bas, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 171
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue d\'En-Bas, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 172
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue d\'En-Bas, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 173
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue d\'En-Bas, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 71 787 X
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Notre-Dame, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 178
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Notre-Dame, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 71 788 X
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le château et à gauche l\'église Notre-Dame, vue prise depuis la rive droite de la Vilaine, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 164
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 179
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 183
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le châtelet et son pont-levis et la tour Saint-Laurent du château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 72 203 X
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le châtelet, son pont-levis et la tour Saint-Laurent du château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 180
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le pont-levis du château, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 182
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Les bords de la Vilaine, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 186
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'église Notre-Dame, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 184
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'entrée du château par le châtelet, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 181
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Poilu tatoué vu de dos, Hermin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, A 6 771
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Hugh Walter McWhirter 902, Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Died 22 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private J M Bowmaker 161. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 September 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 22 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Ellis Johnson 1208, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 22 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Robert Hall 2619, Manchester Regiment
Died 22 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Une vieille maison de la place de la République, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, A 7 175
22 septembre 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine