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).
'Discovery' run onto rocks in Queen Charlotte Sound. This print shows George Vancouver's ship 'Discovery' on the rocks in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. The Chatham is visible in the background.
It appeared as plate 4 in V
1770s
National Maritime Museum
'View from Point Venus, Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]'. Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's second voyage, undertaken in t
Late 1770s
National Maritime Museum
A fly-trap, figures and handles of the same instruments made in Otaheite. Otaheite was originally named Port Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Island by Captain Samuel Wallis (1728-1795). The first encounter between the Europeans and the nativ
1770s
National Maritime Museum
Country scene with mountain range and two figures. This is likely a scene from Yoolee-Etea. The voyagers and natives had good relations and were fond of trading commodities. Yoolee-Etea was an island visited after Otaheite by Captain James Cook during the
1770s
National Maritime Museum
Entrance of Endeavour River in New South Wales.. Scale: 1:35,000. Ungraduated engraved chart with a key to the plan.
[1770]
National Maritime Museum
Exploring and surveying a volcano. Drawing done by William Alexander. Likely in 1769- early 1770s.
Many drawings and engravings were put in John Hawkesworth's Voyages (an account of the journeys by Captain Cook, Vice Admiral John Byron, and Joseph
1770s
National Maritime Museum
Fighting vessel; Galley. Scale: Possibly 1:48. A model of a fighting galley (possibly 1770), possibly Russian, made entirely in wood which is unpainted apart from the wale, which is painted black. It has two lateen masts with set sails. The hull is made p
Possibly 1770
National Maritime Museum
Native burial ground built on the side of a hill. This is likely a scene from Yoolee-Etea. The voyagers and islanders had good relations and were fond of trading commodities. Yoolee-Etea was an island visited after Otaheite by Captain James Cook during th
1770s
National Maritime Museum
Native burial ground set into hillside with decorative wooden screens. This is likely a scene from Yoolee-Etea. The voyagers and islanders had good relations and were fond of trading commodities. Yoolee-Etea was an island visited after Otaheite by Captain
1770s
National Maritime Museum
Red sandstone. A lump of red sandstone rock, from the main outcrop of Grassy Hill (Cooktown) almost on the spot where Capt James Cook is reputed to have stood, when he landed at the Endeavour River on his first voyage 12th June 1770.
Pre 1770
National Maritime Museum
Sir Philip Stephens, 1723-1809. Oval miniature in watercolour on ivory, in an oval gold suspension locket, the back of which is glazed with blue glass. There is a central oval section within the glass which contains a lock of brown human hair, presumably
circa 1770
National Maritime Museum
Tree fragment. A Fragment of a tree. On an attached card are written the words: 'Piece of the tree to which Capt James Cook tied his Bark "Endeavour" Cooktown N.Q. 17.6.1770'.
Pre 1770
National Maritime Museum
Two chisels, an adze, a bread-fruit beater, the nasal flute, a thatching needle and an instrument for beating cloth.. This is an engraving of the various types of instruments used by the natives of New Zealand. It was done by Syndey Parkinson in 1770. Par
1770s
National Maritime Museum
View in the Island of Otaheite with house called Tupapow. Likely drawn by Sydney Parkinson in May 1769. This shows a tupapow, or shed, under which dead bodies were laid to rest in Otaheite in the South Pacific. Otaheite was originally named Port Royal Har
1770s
National Maritime Museum
View of the Island of Otaheite with several vessels of that island. The first of three such engravings of the island of Otaheite in the South Pacific. Otaheite was originally named Port Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Island by Captain Samue
1770s
National Maritime Museum
View of the island of Ulietea with a double canoe and a boat house. Ulietea (Raiatea) was the center from which the Society Islands and Tahiti were populated, and the homeland to which the Maori people trace back their historic origin. Field drawing by Sy
1770s
National Maritime Museum
A prospect of Port Antonio, and town of Titchfield, in the Parish of Portland, on the North side Jamaica, taken from Navy Island. Print
26 Jan 1770
National Maritime Museum