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).
Hugh William Ching , 9th London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 26 March 1915
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Driver William Constantine Campbell 37048, Canadian Army Service Corps
Died 26 March 1915
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Private Edward James Chandler 11692, South Wales Borderers
Died 26 March 1915
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Private John Herbert Speke 10760, South Wales Borderers
Died 26 March 1915
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Private William Henry Miles 2063, East Surrey Regiment
Died 26 March 1915
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Captain Robert Reginald John Holmes , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 26 March 1916
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Lance Corporal Louis Napoleon Green 3824, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 26 March 1916
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Lieutenant John Wesley Davies 60674, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1916
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Private Alfred Milner 1669, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 26 March 1916
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Private George Brunswick Lawson 70241, Canadian Infantry
Died 26 March 1916
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Private Hodgson Turnbull 21230, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 26 March 1916
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Company Serjeant Major Edward Catherall, D.C.M. 240261, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Corporal Lloyd W Roberts 290266, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Driver John Frederick Jones 716, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Albert Edward White 266133, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Charles Stanley Wood 201091, Cheshire Regiment
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Evan Thomas Jones 291390, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private John James McMenamin, M.M. 5372, Australian Infantry
Died 26 March 1917
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Private John Rowland Jones 290286, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Lawton Hall Jones 291432, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Raymond Nathan Wilcox 291518, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private Stanley Richard Jarvis 290291, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private William Charles Smith 291254, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private William Edgar Brown 290126, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Private William Thomas Lloyd 290866, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1917
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Sergeant William Foxwell Nash 235355, Corps of Hussars
Died 26 March 1917
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Geoffrey Robert Holland-Martin , 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
Died 26 March 1918
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Company Quartermaster Serjeant Gerald Bentley 16762, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Corporal Albert Stanley Cocking 47177, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)
Died 26 March 1918
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Flying Officer Frederick John Edward Pullen , Royal Flying Corps
Died 26 March 1918
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Gunner Joseph William Sidebottom 800522, Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 March 1918
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Lance Serjeant Wilfrid Blake Moyes 18669, Royal West Surrey Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Philip Vaughan Holberton , Manchester Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Major Jonas William Anderson , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 26 March 1918
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Paymaster Reginald Lacey Parsons , Royal Naval Reserve
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Bert Cox 306917, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Ernest Victor Da Costa 531333, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 26 March 1918
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Private James Hope Forrest 534563 , 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 26 March 1918
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Private John Henry Boynton 242272, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Mervyn Hughes 31518, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Reuben Ingamells 25898, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Richard James Needs 24681, Devonshire Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Seaforth St. John Clarke 204640, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Walter Thomas Cross 55407, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 26 March 1918
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Second Lieutenant Edward Philip Wykes , Royal Flying Corps
Died 26 March 1918
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Second Lieutenant John William Albert Kydd , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 March 1918
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Second Lieutenant William Hughes , Manchester Regiment
Died 26 March 1918
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Private Sidney Leonard Gulliver 36170, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 March 1920
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Staff Serjeant Walter Alfred Shaw 6931, Royal Engineers
Died 26 March 1920
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Lieutenant John Morrison Thomson , King's African Rifles
Died 26 March 1921
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Lieutenant Colonel John Chadwick , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 26 March 1943
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Cadet Raymond Thornton Chandler 2025721, Royal Air Force
Died 26 March 1959
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Brigadier General Sir Norman Archibald Orr Ewing , 45th Infantry Brigade
Died 26 March 1960
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