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).
Captain (Retired Pay) Arthur Magor. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Miles Bertie Cunninghame Carbery MID. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Norman Jerome Beauchamp Leslie. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 17 October 1914 near Armentieres
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hubert Kirkby Peace. Unit: 3rd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Eden. Unit: 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Philip John Egerton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front. Son of Hubert and Annie Egerton, of St. Michael's Lodge, Chislehurst. Served in the South African War.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Lester (Leslie?) Hastings-Medhurst. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Leonard Wyndham Rendell MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard John Lumley. Unit: 11th (Prince Alberts Own) Hussars. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action near Ploegsteert
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sydney Howard Hodges. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 17 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil William Charles Shelley. Unit: 2nd Life Guards, attached to 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 17 October 1915 Killed in action in France near Hohenzollern Redoubt Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Dennis Joseph St. Claire Mullaly MC MID. Unit: 1st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1915 Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Oliver John Sykes. Unit: 23rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Philip Challinor Ellis. Unit: Highland Light Infantry, attached to No. 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Observer). Death: 17 October 1916.
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard Ralph Parrack 5698. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant C K Roberts. Unit: 11th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 October 1916 posted missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Airlie Holden. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, attached to the "C" Company, 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Frederick Charles Davies. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 9th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Richard Gibbons 300705. Unit: 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Death: 17 October 1917, Kingston Hospital, Britain.
Died 17 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant H C Wookey. Unit: Gloucestershire Regiment, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 October 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant John William Briggs DCM MM 13244. Unit: 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1917 France Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Stoker Petty Officer Harold Jordan 309611. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Strongbow. Death: 17 October 1917. He was aboard HMS Strongbow when it was sunk during an attack on Merchant ship convoy on 17 October 1917.
Died 17 October 1917
Imperial War Museum