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).
Viper (1756). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth, hold with fore & aft platforms, and fittings for the upper deck for Viper (1756), an early two-masted 10-gun Sloop.
Circa August 1755
National Maritime Museum
Ferret (1760). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and lower deck with platforms for Ferret (1760), a 14-gun Ship Sloop. The plan illustrates the ship as she was surveyed at Woolwich Dockyard in 1768 and with the later alte
16 August 1768
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. There are three variants of this chart in the collection.
1777
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. (Previously numbered 152.) This variant has only the view, without the reference
1777
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. Imprint April 2, 1778. Title added: The Phoenix and the Rose engaged by the enem
1778
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. Lacks imprint. View in aquatint. Printed on Bates paper, view coloured. Page num
1777
National Maritime Museum
A Plan of the Batteries erected before Gibraltar with the attacks made by sea and land on that garrison... on the 13th September 1782. Print
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View from Gibraltar of the Spanish Batteries erected in the late Siege before that Garrison. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Grand Attack upon Gibraltar September 13th 1782. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Straits of Gibraltar with the Coast of Barbary from Cape Spartel to Ceuta Point. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
The Launch of the North West America at Nookta Sound Being the first vessel that was ever built in that part of the Globe. Print
16 Aug 1790
National Maritime Museum
Bonetta (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Bonetta (captured 1798), a captured French privateer, as fitted as an 18-gun Ship
16 August 1798
National Maritime Museum
Dick Dock, or the Lobster & Crab (Greenwich Pensioner caricature). Two Greenwich Pensioners sit outside a riverside tavern drinking and smoking. One, with a wooden leg, is shaking hands with a one-armed soldier (whose jacket is miscoloured blue rathe
16 Aug 1806
National Maritime Museum
Jack in a White Squall, Amongst Breakers - on the Lee Shore of St. Catherines (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Page No.79.
16 Aug 1811
National Maritime Museum
Griffon (1832), Forester (1832), Buzzard (1834), Lynx (1833), and Termagant (1838).. Scale possibly: 1:96. Plan showing the 'hermaphrodite' rig (brigantine), stern board outline, and half deck plan for Griffon (1832) and Forester (1832), as wel
16 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Earl Nelson [sic] : Horatio Nelson. A late print from Hoppner's portrait, mistitled 'Earl Nelson' rather than 'Viscount Nelson' which was his rank in the peerage at death.
16 Aug 1841
National Maritime Museum
Sarah Sands (1846). scale: 1:64. Plan showing the after body plan, and the sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth from the midships to the stern on the four-masted iron steam ship Sarah Sands (1846).
Signed by John Grantham [Consulting Engineer, Live
16 August 1847
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of steamer Sharpshooter Augst 16th 1848 (with notes). Stored with PAH4442-PAH4499, PAH4501-PAH4521.
16 Aug 1848
National Maritime Museum
H.M. Gunboat Snake Lieut. Commander H. McKillop engaging Russian Steamers under Yeni Kali Batteries 24th May 1855. Hand-coloured.
16 Aug 1855
National Maritime Museum