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 boat house in which the Natives of Yoolee-Etea preserve their canoes from the weather. This war canoe from New Zealand is an engraving by Sydney Parkinson done in April 1770. Parkinson was a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Jose
1769
National Maritime Museum
A burial place, in the island of Morai or Yoolee-Etea. Parkinson was a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Joseph Banks on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage to the Pacific from 1768-1771. The drawing was then engraved in
1769
National Maritime Museum
A fortified town, called a Hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Likely drawn in Tolaga Bay, New Zealand by either Herman Diedrich Sporing or Sydney Parkinson in October 1769. Sydney Parkinson (a Scottish landscape artist on Captain
1769
National Maritime Museum
A vessel anchored in a Bay. This is an engraving by Sydney Parkinson done around 1770. Parkinson was a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Joseph Banks on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage to the Pacific from 1768-1771.
1769
National Maritime Museum
Boreas (1757). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck plans, fore and aft platforms for Boreas (1774), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard after being launched at Hodgen Yard in Kingston upon Hull. Signed Thomas
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Canoe from Otaheite. Otaheite was visited by Captain James Cook during the first Endeavor voyage to the Pacific from 1768-1771.
Many drawings and engravings were put in John Hawkesworth's Voyages (an account of the journeys by Captain Cook, Vice A
1769
National Maritime Museum
Commemorative medal presented to Jonas Hanway by the Marine Society. Commemorative medal presented to Jonas Hanway by the Marine Society. Obverse: Within a circle Britannia, her spear and shield laid aside, standing instructing a ragged youth (right), a b
1769
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the Marine Academy. Counter commemorating the Marine Academy. Obverse: Short bust of King Louis XV with long hair, tied, laureate (left). Legend: 'LUD . XV REX CHRISTIANISS.' Reverse: Port broadside view of a battleship un
1769
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the marriage of the Comte de Provence. Counter commemorating the marriage of the Comte de Provence. Obverse: Hymen and Prudence standing on either side of an altar, Cupid flying above, carrying the shield of Savoy. Pearl border. Reve
1769
National Maritime Museum
K1. A one day marine timekeeper with a 102mm diameter white enamel dial, in imitation of that of H4, with scrolling decoration at the quarters and roman hour numerals and Arabic ten-minute figures. It has polished and blued steel beetle and poker hands wi
1769
National Maritime Museum
Liverpool (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck and fore & aft platforms as proposed for Liverpool (1758), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate.
18th July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Rogerus Long S.T.P. Aulae Pemb. Cantab. Custos, Astronomiae et Geometriae professor Lowndesianus R.S.S. A.D. 1769. AEtat.89. Print
1769
National Maritime Museum
Rural scene with fortified compound. This is an engraving by Sydney Parkinson likely done in August 1769. Parkinson was a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Joseph Banks on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage to the Pacif
1769
National Maritime Museum
Seaford (1757). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Seaford (1754), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1762-1772]
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Three ships of the Hudson's Bay Company off Greenwich. John Hood, was a shipwright who lived at Limehouse. He specialized in large pen and wash drawings of shipping scenes (including storms) which he exhibited at the Society of Artists and the Free S
1769
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed ship of the Roebuck class (1767). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half - breadth for building the unknown (and unnamed) 44 - gun Fifth Rate two-decker of the Roebuck Class.
Note: The name of the builder and da
1769
National Maritime Museum
View of the perforated rock in Tolaga Bay, New Zealand.. Likely drawn by Sydney Parkinson between October of 1769 and March 1770. Sydney Parkinson (a Scottish landscape artist on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage from 1768-1771) made field s
1769
National Maritime Museum
Weazle (1745). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck and after platform for Weazle (1745), a 16-gun two-masted Ship Sloop.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1762-1772].
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Winchelsea (1764). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarter deck, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Winchelsea (1764), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Chatham in April 1769 prior to sailing for the Mediterran
Circa April 1769
National Maritime Museum
[Greenwich to Erith]. Single sheet. engraving. Hand coloured in outline, along boundaries. Scale: 1:31,680. The border is graduated for latitude and longitude from the prime meridian of London (not Greenwich). Sandbanks are marked and soundings are given
1769
National Maritime Museum
[Sheppey and Faversham to Herne Bay]. Single sheet. engraving. Hand coloured in outline, along boundaries. Scale: 1:31,680. The border is graduated for latitude and longitude from the prime meridian of London (not Greenwich). Sandbanks are marked and soun
1769
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) and the Cinque Ports banquet, 1839. Medal commemorating Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) and the Cinque Ports banquet, 1839. Obverse: Within a wreathed border the
1839
National Maritime Museum
Formidable (1777). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Formidable' (1777), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyo
16 February 1769
National Maritime Museum
A Prospect of Rio Bona Harbour in the Parish of St Ann's, and the Tavern, Wharf and Stores in the Parish of St James, the North Side Jamaica. Print
Jun 1769
National Maritime Museum
Niger (1759). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Niger (1759), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as fitted/taken off? at Portsmouth Dockyard after returning from Newfoundland.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [M
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Solebay (1763). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Solebay (1763), a 28-gun Sixth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Tweed (1759). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and aft platform for Tweed (1759), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off/fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1762-1772
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum