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 Dutch fleet at anchor in the Helder, 12 May 1665. In the background, there is a port-broadside view of the Dutch fleet lying at anchor, which seems to lie facing the wind. In the foreground is a stern view of a boeier yacht.
The work is inscribed wit
1665
National Maritime Museum
Trial (1790). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, midship section, and a plan and section through the centreboard casing, proposed and approved for building Trial (
12 May 1789
National Maritime Museum
Galic Perfidy, or the National Troops Attachment to their General after their Defeat at Tournay (caricature). Hand-coloured.
12 May 1792
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Great Arsenal at Venice, which has two Gates, one for the Workmen to enter at, the other for the Ships. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
Commodore Anson in the Centurion with a crew of 227, 30 of which were boys, on the 20th of June 1743 about two in the afternoon attacks and in less than half an hour obliges to strike and surrender the rich Acupulco ship Nuestra Senora de Capodongo comman
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
Evening, or Sun setting. Le Soir, ou Soleil couchant. Plate No.100.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
Poll and my Partner Joe (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
Poor Tom Bowling (caricature). Text in English below image. Plate No. 274.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
The Greenwich Pensioner (caricature). Bears no: 262. This image was printed above the text of Charles Dibdin's song 'The Greenwich Pensioner' [?trimmed off this copy - to check]. Two Pensioners are seated at a table outside the door or what
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
The Nottingham Captain Saumarez takes the Mars. In June 1746 the French sent a powerful force to re-take Louisbourg and capture Nova Scotia. A long stormy journey from Brest and disease defeated them and the third surviving commanding officer, de la Jonqu
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
The Resolution Excise Cutter. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes roulette work.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Chesterfield, & the Rt. Honble Lord Walsingham. - Postmasters General, This Plate representing the Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer L' Atalante... [2 Dec 1794]. T
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
Tom Tackle relieving an Old Shipmate (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
National Maritime Museum
'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vessel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck with mortar beds, and lower deck for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted with the alterations proposed by Colonel Congreve.
Signed by
12 May 1797
National Maritime Museum
'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vesssel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the section through the foreside of the after motar bed, and a section through the afterside of the foremost mortar bed for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted to the
12 May 1797
National Maritime Museum
This Portrait of Captain George Westcott, who fell on board his Majesty's Ship the Majestic of 74 guns, having bravely defended the Honor of the British Flag in the ever memorable Victory of the Nile, on the 1st August 1798; is respectfully Inscribed
12 May 1799
National Maritime Museum
A new chart shewing the navigation through the Straits of Sunda to Batavia. Drawn from the latest authorities by William Heather May 12th1803. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Backed with blue paper. Scale: [ca. 1:350 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated for lat
1803
National Maritime Museum
Comfort in a hurricane (caricature). Page 298.; Text in English below title.
12 May 1803
National Maritime Museum
Emblematical Monument erected in the Guildhall of the City of Norwich for the preservation of the Sword presented by the late Lord Viscount Nelson. The Arms are the same which his Lordship bore when the Sword was presented. Technique includes aquatint.
12 May 1806
National Maritime Museum
William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk. Print. A commemoration of Northesk's role as third in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, in the 'Britannia'. Although the ship suffered heavy casualties and did good rescue work in the post-Trafalgar
12 May 1806
National Maritime Museum
'Leopard' (1790). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the spar deck, and upper deck of 'Leopard' (1790), as originally fitted as a fifty gun fourth rate two-decker, and as fitted in 1812 for a troopship.
Signed by Nicholas Diddams [Master
12 May 1812
National Maritime Museum
'Leopard' (1790); 'Romney' (1812). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the gun deck, and hold with fore and aft platforms for 'Leopold' (1790), as originally fitted as a fifty gun fourth rate two-decker, and as fitted in 1812 for a
12 May 1812
National Maritime Museum
31ft Powder Barge (1825). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a thirty-one foot single-masted powder barge built at Plymouth Dockyard for the Powder Works. The pl
12 May 1825
National Maritime Museum
The Niger Expedition... off Holyhead... Aug-Oct 1841. HMS Albert also shows Sudan and Wiberforce. This print depicts the paddle troopship 'Albert', which formed part of the Niger expedition of 1841, along with 'Soudan', on the left, an
12 May 1841
National Maritime Museum
The London and Madeira packet brig Dart entering Funchal Roads. Signed by artist in plate.
12 May 1845
National Maritime Museum