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).
'Invincible' (1808); 'Minden' (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Invincible' (1808) and 'Minden' (1810), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers. The later pencil alterations to the plan refer to
Circa August 1802
National Maritime Museum
'Mars', 74 guns. Scale: 1:48. Lifeboats from a block design model of the 'Mars' (1794), a 74 gun two-decker ship of the line.
1794
National Maritime Museum
'Neptune' (1797). Scale 1:24. Plan showing sections and elevations for the main jeer capstan of 'Neptune' (1797), a 98-gun Second Rate three-decker, as taken off at Deptford in 1796 prior to the ship's launch in January 1797.
1796
National Maritime Museum
. Anchor shaped gold brooch. The brooch has a pin attachment at the back and a suspension ring at the top. The front of the anchor stock is inscribed with the name 'Earl Howe', while the back is inscribed 'June 1st 1794'.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Badge commemorating the Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794. A gold badge in the form of a flat gold ring with a foul anchor suspended within it. Obverse inscription, on anchor stock: ‘EARL HOWE’. On arms of anchor: ‘QUEEN CHARL
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Brass rod from tellurium which represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Brass rod in original oak box, apparently part of an attachment that can be used to demonstrate the retrograde motion of a star.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Calendar for the single year of 1794. The calendar is made from a disc of bronze. On one side of the calendar is a table with the months in three letter abbreviations and a table with the numbers for the number of days. Around the edge of the table are
1794
National Maritime Museum
. French republican banner captured during the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794. It belonged to the boarding division of 'L'Amerique' 74, engaged and taken by 'Leviathan' commanded by Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801). The ba
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Green velvet-covered presentation box with a glazed lid and back, designed to hold a medal and chain.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Inboard profile plan
Date: NMM, Progress Book, volume 3, folio 113, states that 'Aimwell' and 'Pelter' were ordered and begun in 1794 at Blackwall by Mr Percy.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Lamp, contained in the orrery's original oak box, which can be used to replace the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Miniature gold alloy foul anchor with a suspension ring. Cut from piece of sheet metal, the details of the rope have been engraved on the front of the item. It is inscribed ‘Earl Howe’ on the stock and ‘June 1, 1794’ across the
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Original oak box made to contain the orrery, plus a lamp that can be used to replace the Sun in the tellurium and an attachment that can be used to demonstrate the retrograde motion of a star.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Pin from tellurium which represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Planetarium base. The printed base paper has zodiac and calendar scales, the seasons, and a depiction of the comparative sizes of the planets.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Sheer draught of HMS 'Indefatigable' dated to 1794 to show the proposal for cutting the the 64-gun Third Rate down to a frigate. In this process, the ship was 'razeed', and her upper deck was removed and she was reduced to an armamen
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Small brass rod in original oak box, apparently part of an attachment that can be used to demonstrate the retrograde motion of a star.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Small glass scent bottle with gilt inscription '1st June 1794' and an anchor. It has a silver cap with ground glass stopper. One of the many souvenirs and commemoratives produced after the Battle of the Glorious 1st of June.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Spare bracket from tellurium which represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Spare bracket from tellurium which represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Terrestrial sphere from tellurium which represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun.
1794
National Maritime Museum
. This is a portable orrery with tellurium and planetarium attachments. The baseboard is finely engraved with calendar and zodiac scales and a variety of astronomical information, including small images of the planet Saturn and the changing position of it
1794
National Maritime Museum
. This tellurium represents the motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth and Venus around the Sun. It is supported by a wooden baseboard standing on three wooden legs, covered with a printed paper that has scales and images, including representation
1794
National Maritime Museum
. Three further parts in a bag in original oak box, perhaps part of an attachment to demonstrate the retrograde motion of a star.
1794
National Maritime Museum
A compleat map of the West Indies containing the coasts of Florida, Louisiana, New Spain and Terra Firma with all the islands. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: [ca. 1:9 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Longitude from Ferro. '41' in top a
1794
National Maritime Museum
A New and Correct Chart of the Coast of New England and New York with the adjacent parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from Cape Sable to the Entrance of Hudsons or North River by Captain Holland; View of Hell Gate by W. A. Williams 1777 (inset); Plan
1794
National Maritime Museum
A new map of France divided into Metropolitan Circles & Departments agreeable to the Decree of the National Assembly in 1790. Two sheets joined. Engr. Physical description Note: Borders coloured. Scale: ca. 1:500 000 (bar). Contents Note: Six scenes s
1794
National Maritime Museum
A third-rate, a frigate, a fishing lugger and other craft off shore in a calm. This fine watercolour is in good condition. The main ship is a naval two-decker of about 70 guns, probably lying in one of the main English south coast anchorages though the lo
1794
National Maritime Museum
American schooner Thetis in 1794 - Coast of Virginia. Medium includes pen and ink. Signed and dated 'GT 1794'
1794
National Maritime Museum
Anchor weights and measurements in the Royal Navy (1794). No scale. Plan showing the weights and measurements for anchors as well as descriptions, diagrams, and dimensions for anchors up to 80 hundredweight in divisions of one cwt taken from actual measur
1794
National Maritime Museum
Artois(1794); Warship; Frigate; 38 Guns. Scale: 1:48. A design block model of the ‘Artois’, a 38-gun frigate, built by Wells of Rotherhithe in 1794. The model is scenic, and is represented on a slipway, with complete with its launching flags.
1794
National Maritime Museum
Battle of the First of June 1794. Obverse: Engraved on a plate within a flat border, a foul anchor within a wreath entwined with a ribbon. Inscription: "HAC VIRTUS MERCEDE DIGNA". Reverse: Inscription: "PRESENTED TO MR.A.DODDS SURGEON R.N.
1794
National Maritime Museum
Battle of the Glorious First of June (Ushant), 1794. Robert Cleveley is not known to have been at the Battle of the First of June. However, it is clear from Joseph Farington, the artist and diarist, that within two months of the battle, he was working on
1794
National Maritime Museum