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).
Jarman's Map of Hobart Town 1858
Taken some time in 1858
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Plan - Goulburn Street Public School for the Board of Education; Drawing No - 3 Elevations - Colour; Contract Code 246; Card No.399
Taken 16 Feb 1885
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
"Queen Lizzie" [HMS Queen Elizabeth, off Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A communication trench near the 'Pine' [Lone Pine, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A spy, blindfolded [prisoners of war, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Ammunition on the beach [Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
An 18pr firing [artillery in action, Gallipoli ?]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Bombarding Gaba Tepe [Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Gallipoli - landscape above Anzac Cove
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Grave of unknown soldier, 4th Dragoon Guards
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Headstone for Lance Corporal James Marland, killed at Kassassin 1882
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Human remains near gun pits, Tel el Kebir
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
In the graveyard at Tel-el-Kebir
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Memorial to soldiers kiled at Tel El Kabir, 1882
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Method of landing troops [Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
More of Beachy's work [dead donkeys, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
More Turks [prisoners of war, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Original staff No.9 Australian General Hospital 01 Jan 1915
Taken some time in Jan 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Prisoners at work [prisoners of war, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Queen Lizzie's guns [HMS Queen Elizabeth, off Gallipoli ?]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Red Cross "Donks" [donkeys, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Some of Beachy's work [dead donkeys, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Turkish heroes from Lone Pine [dead bodies, Gallipoli]
Taken some time in 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
W.E.L.H. Crowther and Colin Perkins at Claremont Camp 1915
Taken 11 Apr 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
W.E.L.H Crowther and H. Piggot? recuperating in Florence
Taken some time in Dec 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
"Hot work at the guns" - Australian artillery in action at Pozieres July 1916
Taken 21 Jul 1916
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Returned wounded soldiers - Guard of Honour to Mr Hughes outside the 'Dugout', Hobart Tasmania, October 1916
Taken some time in Oct 1916
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Albert Cathedral, France, wrecked by shell fire
Taken some time in Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A gigantic shell crater 75 yards in circumference, Ypres
Taken 3 Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A party of the 6th Brigade with material for constructing wire entanglements, during the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres
Taken 20 Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Wounded soldiers on stretchers, Menin Road near Hooge
Taken 20 Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Horse transport moving along the camouflaged Menin Road, Ypres
Taken 26 Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Our Boys at the Front. No.13 After the battle. Scene on the Menin Road. Wounded waiting to be taken to the Dressing Station. Official photograph
Taken some time in Oct 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
18-pounder being hauled through the mud at Broodseinde Ridge ... two days before the initial attack on Passchendaele Ridge, Ypres
Taken 10 Oct 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Men of the 40th Battalion [AIF] having their feet attended to at Dragoon Farm, near Ypres
Taken 14 Oct 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Cooks of the 2nd Australian Battalion preparing bully-beef rissoles for the evening meal, Ypres
Taken 11 Nov 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A group of 7th Field Company of Australian Engineers at the entrance to the Catacombs, a system of tunnels built in Hill 63, Messines
Taken 22 Jan 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Officers of 5 Australian Field Ambulance, February 1918 (1)
Taken some time in Feb 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Officers of 5 Australian Field Ambulance, February 1918 (2)
Taken some time in Feb 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Gassed Australian soldiers lying out in the open at an over-crowded aid post near Bois de l'Abbe ... They had been gassed in the operations in front of Villers-Bretonneux
Taken 27 Mar 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Dismantled German gun, June 1918 ... at the Somme
Taken some time in Jun 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
German tank captured by the 26th Australian Battalion at Monument Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux, on 14 July 1918; photograph taken at Vaux 4 August 1918 after the tank had been handed over to the Aust
Taken 14 Jul 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
A tank loaded with wooden bridging material ... stranded in a trench in the Hindenburg Line, Belley Wood, near Villeret
Taken 4 Oct 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Armistice Day, Martin Place, Sydney NSW
Taken 11 Nov 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons