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).
The morning of the 12th April 1782 Representing that Gallant Scene between Dominica and Guadeloupe in the West Indies where... Admiral Lord Rodney is forcing the Enemy's Line (before letters). Plate 1.
21 Mar 1783
National Maritime Museum
Victor (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Victor (1798), an 18 gun flush-decked Ship Sloop (later Sixth Rate Corvette) building at Lynn by Messrs
21 March 1797
National Maritime Museum
Victor (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showng the framing profile (disposition) for Victor (1798), an 18 gun flush-decked Ship Sloop (later Sixth Rate Corvette) building at Lynn by Messrs Brindley.
Signed John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806], and
21 March 1797
National Maritime Museum
'Delft' (1797). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle, upper deck, and lower deck, fore and aft platforms, and inboard profile for 'Delft' (1797), a captured Dutch Third Rate, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard prior t
21 March 1799
National Maritime Museum
Commerce de Marseilles. Print. Coloured etching showing the the port side of the Commerce de Marseilles (1788), which was captured from the French at the Siege of Toulon and added 29 August 1793. Commerce de Marseiiles was an 118 gun, first rate three dec
21 Mar 1801
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No.895. Rowing in the same Boat. Something wrong at bottom, - weather rather squally (caricature). Print
21 Mar 1848
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No.897. An Old Coast Guard, - Looking out. A Strange sail on the horizon (caricature). Text in English below image.
21 Mar 1848
National Maritime Museum
Enligt fotografens noteringar: "Grupp på Skeppsholmen."
Plats: Stockholm
Datum: 21 Mars 1897
Tid: Kl 3.15 e.m.
Ljus: Solsken
Bländare: No 2
Objektiv: Svenska Express
Exponering: Hastighet No: 3
Framkallning: Hydroechinon, Eikonogen
21 March 1897
Bohusläns museum
Enligt fotografens noteringar: "Grupp utanför Hasselbacken."
Plats: Djurgården, Stockholm
Datum: 21 Mars 1897
Tid: Kl 2.31 e.m.
Ljus: Solsken
Bländare: No 2
Objektiv: Svenska Express
Exponering: Hastighet No: 3
Framkallning: Hyd
21 March 1897
Bohusläns museum
Opera House [Wellington] :The Wellington More Men Fund. The Brough contribution. "Dandy Dick". Matinee, Wednesday Mar[ch] 21st, 1900. [Programme cover].
Taken 21 Mar 1900
National Library NZ on The Commons
Lieutenant Lionel Henry Yorke Pownall. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 21 March 1915 Western Front
Died 21 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private George White 1863, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Lewis Neil Gritt Ramsay. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 21 March 1915 Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 21 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain C O Rich MC [recto]
Portrait of a man with Artists' Rifles insignia [verso]
21 March 1916
Imperial War Museum
Newspaper clipping from the Willesden Chronicle 31 March 1916.. Clipping from the Willesden Chronicle 31 March 1916, giving a photograph of Hayward, and news of his being stranded
1916-03-21
National Maritime Museum
Private Benjamin Higginson 15500, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 21 March 1916
Lives of the First World War
Arthur Charles Andrews , Mercantile Marine. HMHS Asturias
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Arthur Edward Humby , Mercantile Marine. HMHS Asturias
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
James George Alfred Munson , Mercantile Marine. HMHS Asturias
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
6th Engineer John Aitken Anderson , Merchant Marine HMHS "Asturias"
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman James John Tillyer , Mercantile Marine, H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Assistant Baker Edwin Alexander Glasspool , Mercantile Marine - H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Assistant Cook Herbert George Kimber , Mercantile Marine - H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Doctor's Boy Victor Charles Mafeking Orman , Mercantile Marine, H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Engineer George Bevis Harvey , Merchant Navy, HMS Asturias
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Fireman Orlando William Green , Mercantile Marine - H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Charles Stewart Mollison 17427, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Frearson Younger , Lothian and Border Horse
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Mate of Hold Albert Isaac Kneller , Mercantile Marine - HMHS "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Miss Jessie Phillips, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned on the Hospital Ship Asturias 21 March 1917.
Died 21 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Edward Lagal 3852, Australian Infantry
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Noon Thomson 46811. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 21 March 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 21 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Walter Whitfield 14/739, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Jessie Josephine Phillips , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Died 21 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
The Orchestra - Barham, NSW, 21 March 1917
Taken 21 Mar 1917
State Library of New South Wales collection
Verlening van gouden medaille van de Nederlandse Vereeniging van Huisvrouwen aan dienstbode Janna Beunk
21 March 1917
Rijksmuseum
Acting Corporal James McDonald S-40884, Gordon Highlanders
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Bombardier L H Smith 64734. Unit: 132nd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 21 March 1918 Missing
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier Thomas Hearn 34737. Unit: "C" Battery, 177th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 21 March 1918, killed in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain (Acting Major) John Crosby Warren MC MID. Unit: 7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 21 March 1918 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Albert Light Moody Dickins , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Albert Light Moody Dickins MC. Unit: 7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 21 March 1918 Missing in action Western Front.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain and Adjutant Norman Sharples , Manchester Regiment
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Basil Arthur Anderson , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Charles Norton Levin , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Charles Norton Levin MC. Unit: 21st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, attached 102nd Light Trench Mortar Battery. Death: 21 March 1918
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Ernest Harry Gilpin. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 21 March 1918, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry James Knight. Unit: C Company, 6th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 21 March 1918 wounded near Cambrai, Western Front.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain John George Kirkup MC. Unit: 25th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 21 March 1918 Western Front.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Thurston Vernon Wiggans. Unit: Garrison Battery, attached to Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 21 March 1918 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Marmaduke Marshall Shaw , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Marmaduke Marshall Shaw MC. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 21 March 1918 Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain O N Feethan. Unit: Border Regiment. Death: 21 March 1918 Roisel Missing in action Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Percy Gerald Lambert. Unit: Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 21 March 1918 Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Finney. Unit: "D" Company, 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 21 March 1918, Western Front.
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Colour Sergeant Fred Crossley Walker 201429. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 21 March 1918 Missing in Action last seen at Roupy near St.Quentin Western Front
Died 21 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Albert Bertie Palmer 301835, Manchester Regiment
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Bertram Leonard Carr 252492, Manchester Regiment
Died 21 March 1918
Lives of the First World War