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).
A coelestiall [sic] planisphere. Single engraved sheet, depicting the northern celestial hemisphere. Originally folded and bound with G200:2/3 and G200:3/2, now laid on a backing sheet.
Text in the margins gives examples of the planisphere's uses: 1,
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National Maritime Museum
A View of Falmouth Harbour, circa 1678. Danckerts travelled widely and his most important commission for King Charles II was to paint a series of 28 canvases depicting various palaces and fortified ports. This picture may have formed part of this series,
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National Maritime Museum
An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels. An English ship, on the left, battles with a ‘Barbary’ ship and two galleys. Smoke fills the sky and the gunfire, which reflects in the sea, illuminates the sails of the ships and their flags. In
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National Maritime Museum
Calm: HMS Royal James, a royal yacht and other shipping. A three-decker shown at anchor. She has a blue flag at the main signifying an admiral of the blue and a Union jack at the fore. In the right foreground is a royal yacht with an extra long pendant at
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National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Obverse: A fishing boat under sail in a rough sea, two shields above. Inscription: 'DOMINE SALVA NOS' (Lord save us). Reverse: Inscription, 'G
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National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Obverse: A fishing boat under sail in a rough sea. Inscription: 'DOMINE SALVA NOS' (Lord save us). Reverse: Inscription, 'DOMINE SALVA SERVOS
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National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Admiral Count Wachtmeister (1641-1714). Medal commemorating Admiral Count Wachtmeister (1641-1714). Obverse: Bust of Admiral Wachtmeister with long hair in an embroidered robe (right). Legend: 'HANS . WACHT . = MEISTER . AM : GL
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National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Stralsund, 1678. Medal commemorating the capture of Stralsund, 1678. Obverse: Bust of Frederick William, the Elector of Hanover, in a long wig, laureate, and armour embossed with a mask (right). Legend: 'FRID : WILH
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National Maritime Museum
Portrait of the 'Happy Return'. A portrait, viewed from slightly before the starboard beam, of the English fourth-rate ship ‘Happy Return’, which was built in 1654 as the ‘Winsby’, 54 guns, renamed in 1660, and captured b
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National Maritime Museum
Portrait of the 'Happy Return'. Portrait of the ‘Happy Return’, viewed from close under the port quarter, the side only lightly sketched. There are two rows of stern windows with a small royal arms between them. It is very freely but
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National Maritime Museum
Portrait of the ‘Portland’, a 50-gun fourth-rate, built in 1653 and burnt in 1692.. The ‘Portland’ viewed from slightly before the starboard beam, with square decorated ports and, on the broadside, twelve guns on the gun deck, elev
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National Maritime Museum
The Cleveland Yacht at sea in a fresh breeze. Oil painting (framed). Robinson, 'The Oil Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes', p. 989, no. 407. Related drawings are PAE5248, PAF6879, PAF6589. Coll: the late Michael Robinson
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National Maritime Museum
The right ascensions and declinations of the principal fixed starrs in both hemisphears to ye year 1678. Single sheet, engraving. Only the northern celestial hemisphere, drawn on the plane of the ecliptic, is on this sheet. The star Cor Caroli (the heart
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National Maritime Museum
The right ascensions and declinations of the principal fixed stars in both hemisphears to year 1678.. Printed star chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere dedicated to Jonas Moore. Engraved by James Clerk. At the foot of the sheet there is a contempora
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National Maritime Museum
[Western Atlantic]. Single sheet. Coloured manuscript drawn on vellum, mounted on two hinged oak boards. This is the western half of a four-board plat. The chart contains a latitude scale and a distance scale in leagues.
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National Maritime Museum