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).
'Boyne' (1790); 'Prince of Wales' (1794). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Boyne' (1790), and later for 'Prince of Wales' (1794), both 98-gun Second Rate, three-deckers. The plan includes a number
4 April 1786
National Maritime Museum
. Hot water jug is marked PLT0152.1 and the lid is marked PLT0152.2. They can be found via the Whole/Part toggle.
1786
National Maritime Museum
. Hot water jug is marked PLT0152.1 and the lid is marked PLT0152.2. They can be found via the Whole/Part toggle.
1786
National Maritime Museum
. Silver cup complete with the lid. The cup is marked PLT0142.1 and the lid is marked PLT0142.2.
1786
National Maritime Museum
Captain John Gell, 1740-1805. A three-quarter-length portrait to left in captain's (over three years) full-dress uniform 1774-87. The anchor motif is visible on some of the buttons on his jacket and cuffs. The artist has suggested the naval backgroun
1786
National Maritime Museum
Carte de la rade de Cherbourg levee en l'annee 1786 avec Privilege du Roy. Single sheet. Hand col engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:30 000 (bar).
The lower half of the sheet is an engraving, on blue paper, of a view of Cherbourg with a con
1786
National Maritime Museum
Carte esferica de le Costa de Espania desdo Cabo de St Vicente hasta punta de Europa presentada al Rey Nuestro Senor por el exmo sor Bo Fr Dn Antonio Valdes.. construida Dn Vicente Tofino de San Miguel.. ano 1786 brabado por DJ de la Cruz geogrago de SM e
1786
National Maritime Museum
Carved wooden box. Chip carved wooden box with sliding lid, possibly used as a snuff box. Carved from wood of the 'Halsewell', an East Indiaman wrecked off Seacombe in 1786.The lid is decorated with a spray of foliage. The base with an anchor an
1796?
National Maritime Museum
Counter celebrating French sea power. Counter celebrating French sea power. Obverse: Bust of King Louis XVI in a wig tied with a bow, uniform and ribbon of order (right). Legend: 'LUDOV . XVI . REX CHRISTIANISS.' Reverse: Neptune (left), his tri
1786
National Maritime Museum
El puerto de Mahon y su costa, desde Cala Murte hasta Cala Rafalet. Ruinas del Castillo de Sn. Felipe, baterias existentes y los campamentos, trincheras, y baterias del ultimo sitio. Gravado el ano de 1786.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:2 000 (bar)].
1786
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital from the West [with the Infirmary]. A view along what is now College Walk, inside the West Gate of the Old Royal Naval College, but showing the gates in their original position close to the buildings, before the area of tenements behind
1786
National Maritime Museum
Halfpenny. A halfpenny. Obverse: Engraved on a smooth surface a bust of a boy. Inscription: 'JOHN MARSHALL, BORN JUNE 14 1772'. Reverse: Port quarter view of a full-rigged ship under sail. Inscription: 'LET VIRTUE BE YOUR GUIDE. 1786'.
1786
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating increased naval power. Medal commemorating increased naval power. Obverse: Bust of King Louis XVI in a tie-wig, uniform and ribbon over shoulder (right). Legend: 'LUD . XVI . REX . CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Amphitrite, astr
1786
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating William of Wykham (1324-1404). Box for the medal commemorating William of Wykham (1324-1404).
1786
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating William of Wykham (1324-1404). Medal commemorating William of Wykham (1324-1404). Obverse: Head of Wykham (left), a bishop's crosier (right). Legend: 'William of Wykeham'. Reverse. Inscription within a laurel wreath:
1786
National Maritime Museum
Proposed 74-gun Third Rate two-decker, based on 'Triumph' (1764). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, based on the d
20 April 1786
National Maritime Museum
Royal Sovereign; Warship; First rate; 100 guns. Scale: 1:72. A contemporary Block model of the Royal Sovereign (1786), a 100 guns, first rate, three-decker ship of the line.
Name "Royal Sovereign" on stern. Number "8" on starboard bro
1786
National Maritime Museum
Society at sea. Recreation of the Company on board the Halsewell... before their Disolution... 1786. A genre scene of passengers on board the Halsewell, engaging in various activities from the stern. On the quarterdeck is an ensemble consisting of two men
3 April 1786
National Maritime Museum
Soundings of Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope as taken in the year 1786 by order of Governor van de Graaff. Single sheet. Ms. Medium: Two leaves joined near horizontal centre line, on modern backing sheet. Scale: [ca.1:20 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note:
1786
National Maritime Museum
Teapot. Teapot marked PLT0151.1, lid marked PLT0151.2 and tray marked PLT0151.3. They can be found via the Whole/Part toggle.
1786
National Maritime Museum
The Sailor's Return. An interior of a small cottage. The truckle bed, simple furnishing, flaking plaster and exposed red brickwork suggest rural simplicity and poverty.
A basket hangs on a nail from a beam above the bed, with a rag dangling down. A
1786
National Maritime Museum
The wreck of the 'Halsewell', Indiaman, 1786. This small oil by Stothard shows the roundhouse - the passenger saloon under the poop - of the outward-bound East Indiaman 'Halsewell' in the early hours of 6 January 1786, after a storm dr
1786
National Maritime Museum
Trinity Lighter Number 1 (1786). Scale: 1:12. A plan showing the plans and elevation of the lifiting mechanism of the dredging apparatus for the Trinity Lighter Number 1, a clinker-built, forty-one foot dredger. The reference key also refers to plan ZAZ
1786
National Maritime Museum
Trinity Lighter Number 1 (1786). Scale: approximately 1:36. A plan showing the body plan, half section, profile, and deck plan for the Trinity Lighter Number 1, a clinker-built, forty-one foot Dredger. It also includes an illustration of the pulley and bu
1786
National Maritime Museum
Verscherde soorten van Hollandse vaartuigen geteekent en gesneeden door G. Groenewegen 1786 1e Boeuje Plusiers sortes de Batiments Hollandaise dessine et grave par G. Groenewegen a Rotterdam 1er cahier. Plate No.A1. Title page.
1786
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral George Granville Waldegrave (1786-1857), 2nd Baron Radstock. Fragments from the bust.
1834
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral George Granville Waldegrave (1786-1857), 2nd Baron Radstock. Head-and-shoulders classical-style, hollow-backed plaster bust of Vice-Admiral George Waldegrave. The sitter's head has short hair and side-whiskers and is turned slightly to
1834
National Maritime Museum
46ft Chain Boat (1786). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, section, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a single-masted forty-six foot chain boat, for the Master Attendant of Woolwich Dockyard, to replace another one th
8 March 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Halsewell East Indiaman... was wreck'd off Seacombe in the Isle of Purbeck on the 6th of Jany 1786, when Capt Pierce... two daughters, and two nieces... Capt Pierce... perished along with them. A view of the quarter deck of the Halsewell, occupie
17 Mar 1786
National Maritime Museum
Capt [Richard] Pierce Etch'd by I. Cruikshank from an Original Sketch by a Friend of the Captains. Print. This appears to be a portrait of the captain of the Indiaman 'Halsewell', who heroically remained on board, and died, with his daughte
23 Mar 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant French Man of War of 84 Guns, on the 28 of Feby 1758 in the Mediterranean... London Engraved for Harrison's Edition of Rapin. This engraving depicts the British naval vessel Monmouth, in port bow view, t
1 Apr 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant French Man of War of 84 Guns, on the 28 of Feby 1758 in the Mediterranean.... Hand-coloured.; Technique includes engraving.
1 Apr 1786
National Maritime Museum
Society at Sea. The Recreation of the Company on board the Halsewell in serene Weather, three Days before their Disolution, on the Night between the 5th & 6th of January 1786. A genre scene of passengers on board the Halsewell, engaging in various act
3 Apr 1786
National Maritime Museum
To the Survivors and Relations of the Unfortunate Persons who perished in the Halsewell East Indiaman Captain Pierce, on the 6 January 1786, ..... A view of the Halsewell sinking as she strikes the rocks, with seamen cast on to the rocky shore on the left
18 Apr 1786
National Maritime Museum
Sailing among the Hebrides (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
15 May 1786
National Maritime Museum
A view of London from Flamstead Hill in Greenwich Park. Image framed in an oval. A view over London from the present position of the Wolfe Statue in Greenwich Park; showing figures by the Royal Observatory (left) and on the hill, with ships on the River
22 May 1786
National Maritime Museum
Jemmy's Farewell (caricature). Text in English below image.; Plate No. 204.
20 Jun 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Defeat of a French Squadron Commanded by Monsr de la Clue off Cape Lagos on the 18 of August 1759 by a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships under the Command of the Right Honble Edward Boscawen, Admiral of the Blue. London: Engraved for Harrison'
1 Jul 1786
National Maritime Museum
A map of a part of Yucatan or of that part of the eastern shore within the Bay of Honduras alloted [sic] to Great Britain for the cutting of logwood, in consequence of the convention signed with Spain on the 14th July 1786. By a Bay Man.. Single sheet. Ha
1787
National Maritime Museum
The Brave Capt Tyrrel in the Buckingham of 66 Guns & 472 Men defeating the Florissant, Aigrette & Atlante, three French Ships of War, the 3rd of Novr 1758.... Hand-coloured.; Technique includes engraving.
28 Jul 1786
National Maritime Museum
Sr Francis Drake. London; Engraved for Harrison's Edition of Rapin. Print
9 Aug 1786
National Maritime Museum
Timber carriage (circa 1786). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the sections through the axles, the side elevation, and a plan view for a carriage to transport timber. The plan also includes the reference relating to the various components, the materials to be
12 August 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Death of Lord Robert Manners (at the Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782). Print
15 Aug 1786
National Maritime Museum
42ft Ballast Lighter (1786). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a clinch work forty-two foot ballast (mud) lighter, as taken off at Deptford Dockyard. The plan inclu
6 September 1786
National Maritime Museum
A View of the City of Quebec, the Capital of Canada, taken from the Rock on Point Levi, by Wm Peachy, Octr 23d 1784. Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1786
National Maritime Museum
A View of the City of Quebec, the Capital of Canada, Taken partly from Pointe des Peres, and partly on Board the Vanguard Man of War, by Captain Hervey Smyth. Print
5 Nov 1786
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing a faint pencil body plan, ink body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail, for a double banked, 16-oared, two-masted, 32 ft Cutter to be sent to Botany Bay.
Annotation dated: 17 November 1786
National Maritime Museum