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).
Charles Gordon MacDonald. Unit: 1st/6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 15 June 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edric Hugh Barnsley Richardson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 15 June 1915 Givenchy Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain George John Lorne Smith. Unit: 1st Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 15 June 1915
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Guy Franey Wells. Unit: Adjutant, Royal Engineers. Death: 15 June 1915 Killed in Action near Ypres wounded by a shell fragment and dying a few hours later. Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Guy Lester Nevile. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 Missing in action and wounded at Givenchy. Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Patrick Hay Keith. Unit: 6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 15 June 1915 at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Edgar Forrester. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 15 June 1915, Cuinchy, Western Front.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alfred Frederic Ottobine Dobson. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 June 1915 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil Arthur James. Unit: 1st Battalion, Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 15 June 1915 Western Front.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ernest Henry Hewitt. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 15 June 1915, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Gerald Francis Hadow. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915, killed in action, near Givenchy, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Lemon Swift. Unit: 1st Battalion, (Western Ontario Regiment), 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 15 June 1915 MIA at Givenchy Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major George Thomas Acton Drought. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 15 June 1915 United Kindom. Husband of Louise L. Palmer (formerly Drought), of Ash Priors, Cheltenham, Gloucs.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Edgar Richard Norris 3/9941. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Francis Henry Rogers 10370. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Oliver Arthur Henly 18210. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915, missing in action at Neuve Chapelle, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Donald Dunnet. Unit: 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 15 June 1915 Western Front. Son of Annie Allan Dunnet, of 27, Sinclair St., Thurso, and the late William Dunnet.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gerald Morton Stamford. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 15 June 1915 Killed at Givenchy Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James George Gee Janasz. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 near Festubert Western Front.
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Barclay Wilson. Unit: D Company, 6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 15 June 1915 At Festubert Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Halsted Cortis. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 Killed in action at Givenchy Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Walter Ambler Davies. Unit: C Company, 4th Battalion (Territorials), Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 15 June 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 15 June 1915
Imperial War Museum