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).
Morne Fortunee (purchased 1803). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Morne Fortunee (purchased 1803), a purchased French privateer, prior to fitting as a 6-gun Armed B
17 December 1803
National Maritime Museum
An Accurate Plan of the Three Positions of the British Fleet. Before Lord Nelson Commenced the Action...21 Oct 1805.... A plan of ships and their positions at day-break, at 9am and just before the Battle of Trafalgar. All the ships are named, along with t
17 Dec 1805
National Maritime Museum
An Accurate Plan of the Three Positions of the British Fleet..... Hand-coloured.
17 Dec 1805
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 109ft three-masted, 18-gun ship sloop. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 109ft three-masted, 18-gun ship sloop, as prepared by order from the Admiralty dated 4 March 1819. This desi
17 December 1819
National Maritime Museum
Tweed (1823), Success (1825), Rainbow (1823), Crocodile (1825), Nimrod (1828)} Atholl Class + Volage (1825), Tyne (1826), Imogene (1831), Conway (1832), Alarm (cancelled 1832). Scales, various. 1:8 + 1:24. Plan showing the method of fitting an iron tiller
17 December 1823
National Maritime Museum
H.M. Revenue Cutter Vigilant towing the Barque Alfred of London, a valuable Prize captured 17th Dec 1828 having on board 1010 half Ankers of Contraband Spirits concealed under a Coasting Cargo. Hand-coloured.
Aug 1845
National Maritime Museum
Appearance of Trinidad at 10 pm 17 Dec: 1839 - South Side. Bound with PAE9965-PAE9971, PAE9973-PAE9984.
17 Dec 1839
National Maritime Museum
The yacht Capricorn launching, RMSS Solent preparing to launch, HMS Melville in dock, 1856. Signed by artist and dated.
17 Dec 1856
National Maritime Museum
Document bij Kruis voor Belangrijke Krijgsverrigtingen met gesp Guinea 1869-1870 of Medaille voor Moed en Trouw voor Guinea 1869-1870 van Penninaja Kwassie no.2
17 December 1870
Rijksmuseum
THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS BY THE WRIGHT BROTHERS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1903
17 December 1903
Imperial War Museum
Enligt fotografens journal nr 1 19041908: "Nilsson, Mathilda Ödalen Norum".
17 December 1904
Bohusläns museum
At a public bath in Tiflis-with the real thing in massage-nothing just like it in the world (LOC)
Taken 17 Dec 1905
The Library of Congress
J.E. Öholm
En och en halvplans bostadshus.
Häst för släde. En man. Hingsten Tiss.
17 December 1907
Örebro läns museum
Brahmane et sadhus, Bombay, Indes, A 70 528 XS
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Brahmane et sadhus, Bombay, Indes, A 70 557 XS
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Brahmanes et sadhus, Bombay, Indes, A 4 370 S
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Façade d\'un temple hindou, Bombay, Indes, A 4 375
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le portique d\'une mosquée, Bombay, Indes, A 4 373
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Porte d\'un temple, Bombay, Indes, A 70 562 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Portique d\'une mosquée avec minaret, Bombay, Indes, A 4 381
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Portrait en plan américain d\'une femme à l\'entrée d\'une maison ou dans une cour intérieure, Bombay, Indes, A 68 900 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Portrait en plan américain d\'une femme à l\'entrée d\'une maison, Bombay, Indes, A 70 561 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Temple hindou dédié à Hanuman, Bombay, Indes, A 4 365
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une femme debout à l\'entrée d\'une maison ou dans une cour intérieure, Bombay, Indes, A 68 898 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une femme debout à l\'entrée d\'une maison ou dans une cour intérieure, Bombay, Indes, A 68 899 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une femme hindoue à la porte d\'une maison, Bombay, Indes, A 4 374
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une femme hindoue à la porte d\'une maison, Bombay, Indes, A 70 558 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une femme hindoue à la porte d\'une maison, Bombay, Indes, A 70 559 X
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une mosquée avec son minaret, Bombay, Indes, A 4 368
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Vue de côté du portique d\'une mosquée, Bombay, Indes, A 4 380
17 décembre 1913
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Leonard Charles Ebers 1804, 9th London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lionel John Neville Neville , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ernest Viney , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ernest Viney. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 17 December 1914 Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Harold Walker 14783, South Lancashire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Rollo Cooch. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 17 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Chamier Broughton , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Sidney Arthur Meakin. Unit: 4th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, The Price of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment). Death: 17 December 1914 Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Lionel John Neville. Unit: 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 17 December 1914 Died of wounds at the Casino Hospital Boulogne. Wounded 30 November 1914 near Bailleul. Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private John William Illingworth 5387, Scots Guards
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Hamilton Woods , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Sidney Courthope Bosanquet , Middlesex Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Sidney Courthope Bosanquet. Unit: 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 17 December 1914 Armentieres Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Charles Arthur Wood L/5201, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Rupert Harold Gretton , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Brookes 17291, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert Harold Winter , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Curd Stinchcombe 120232, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Sidney Nelson Farebrother 531395, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest H Webley 266843, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Parker 12367, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Gerard Gurney , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Charles Forbes Southcott 4/13, 4th Hampshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War