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).
Asia carta diciasete piu moderna. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:3 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic note: Graduated chart of Honshu, Shikoko and Kyushu. Mercator projection [prime eridian through Pico, Azores]. Contents note: The north part of the chart is
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta di Noruegia piu moderna. Single sheet, engraving. Scale [circa 1:500,000 (lat)]. Mercator projection, from the prime meridian of Pico, Azores. Shows the coast of Norway. Decorated with a ship and a compass rose.
This chart is from Dudley's Del
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta prima generale d'Affrica e parte d'America. Single sheet, engraving. Scale: [circa 1:9,000,000 (lat)]. Mercator projection with the prime meridian through Pico, Azores. The chart shows compass variation and currents. The eastwards continua
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta prima generale dell'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:9 000 000 (lat)]. Additional Places: Oman, Borneo.
Plate 2 from Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare, vol 1.
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta quinta generale di Europa. Single sheet, engraving. Scale [circa 1:1,500,000]. This is a graduated chart of the English Channel and the Atlantic coasts of southern Britain and northern France on Mercator's projection. Sandbanks, rocks and sound
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta secon.a generale del'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:9 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated for lat & long. Mercator projection, meridian of Pico, Azores. Variation shown. Additional Places: Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Mari
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta seconda generale d'Affrica. Scale: circa 1:8,000,000 (lat at 20 degrees S). Chart of southern Africa from 8 degrees South including Madagascar. Mercator's projection. [Prime meridian through Pico, Azores]. From Dudley, Dell' Arcano de
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National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale d'America. Single sheet. Engr. Cartographic Note: Graduated, Mercator projection, Pico meridian. Contents Note: Inset: [Straits of Magellan and southern tip of South America]. Plate 5 from Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano d
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National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale del'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:20 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: Graduated. Mercator projection, Ferro meridian. Variation and currents noted. Additional Places: New Guinea, Japan, America. Contents Note: To the n
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale di Europa A F Lucini fecit. Scale: circa 1:4,000,000 (lat). Graduated chart of the coasts of Portugal, Spain & North West Africa from Oporto to Cape Bojador including the Canaries and Azores. Mercator projection. [Prime meridian t
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National Maritime Museum
Celestial clockwork globe. Celestial clockwork globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include stars indicated by four different symbols, but there is no magnitude table. The Milky Way is drawn but not labelled. The stars are indicated by four different
1646
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating Armand de Maillé, Duc de Brézé (1619-1646), and his devotion to the Queen. Counter commemorating Armand de Maillé, Duc de Brézé (1619-1646), and his devotion to the Queen. Obverse: A shield o
1646
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the blockade of the Dardanelles, 1646. Counter commemorating the blockade of the Dardanelles, 1646. Obverse: St Mark seated (left), handing the sacred flag to the Doge kneeling (right). Legend: 'S . M . VEN . FRANC . MOLINO D
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National Maritime Museum