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).
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed b
September 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard. Note the pencil outline of a swivel-mounted gun on the centre line of the upper deck.
September 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the sail plan for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner.
7 October 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Victoria' (1831). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, and accommodation plan for Victoria (1831), 109ft three-masted ship-rigged merchant ship. Mould Loft Number 78.
Attached to the front of this plan is a note in ink entitled
circa 1831
National Maritime Museum
. A wooden chart rule, on the front of which is a protractor for laying off courses on a chart, as well as a scale in inches. On the back are several scales to aid with the mathematical calculations carried out as part of a ship's navigation. The sca
after 1837
National Maritime Museum
. Awarded to Joachim D Heinrich Satow. Obverse: Head of Nicholas I (R). Legend in Russian script. Reverse: Legend in Russian script (for zeal). Bound in a volume of letters of commendation.
1837
National Maritime Museum
. Letter associated with a five-piece silver tea/coffee service comprising teapot, coffee pot, milk jug, sugar basin and salver including the original strainer [ZBA4944; ZBA4945; ZBA4946, ZBA4947and ZBA4948].
7 Mincing Lane
15 June 1837
Dear Madame,
He
1837
National Maritime Museum
. Presentation sword, which belonged to the Honourable Captain Robert Gore (1810-1854). The hilt of the sword consists of a dull gilt, solid half-basket guard with raised bars and a crown and anchor badge. There is a folding flap on the inside of guard. T
1837
National Maritime Museum
A steam frigate and a paddle steamer. Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Asia (1824). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sections and plan illustrating the storage of the tanks, barrels, and ballast for Asia (1824), an 84-gun Second Rate, two-decker.
Signed by John Fincham [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, 1835-1839].
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Button: Unknown. Button. Twisted rope edge, on a smooth background is a fouled anchor.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Capt Sir James Alexander Gordon, R.N. Engraved by W. Greatbatch. Technique includes etching.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Captn Sir Nesbit J. Willoughby, From an Original Picture by Barber in the Possession of Lord Middleton. Print
1837
National Maritime Museum
Crossing the Atlantic July 1836. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0254, PAF0256-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.
1837
National Maritime Museum
De Brik Havane Packet Gekommandeert door Kapitein Dirk Ts Visser, Overl: 1835. Port-side view of the Havane Packet on rough waves, shown off the Lizard, Cornwall, represented by the Lizard lighthouse in the far-right distance.
Inscribed on the image, bott
1837
National Maritime Museum
Francois-Joseph Paul de Grasse, Comte de Grasse, 1722 - 88. Print titled 'DE GRASSE'
1837
National Maritime Museum
Harmony and Discord. With caption: 'Oh! how sweet is the pleasure, how great the delight, when soft love and harmony together unite! But how sad is the contrast where envy and strife, make two once loving souls lead a cat-and-dog life!' Part of
1837
National Maritime Museum
Her Majesty's Indian Naval uniform: pattern 1828. Full dress coat worn by Commodore Robert Oliver (1783–1848), of the Indian Navy.
This double-breasted tailcoat is the 1828 regulation pattern, although it was made in 1837, and reflects the fas
1837
National Maritime Museum
His Most Gracious Majesty, William - Henry The Fourth. Technique includes stipple engraving.
1837
National Maritime Museum
His Royal Highness Prince William Henry. Serving as a Midshipman on board the Prince George. Print. A copy made from West's earlier print of the 1780s, at the time of the subject's death in 1837, as King William IV (from 1830)
1837
National Maritime Museum
HMS Terror and the paddle steamer Rhadamanthus at sea. Bound with PAF0252, PAF0254-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.
1837
National Maritime Museum
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the larboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0276, PAF0278-PAF0285.
1837
National Maritime Museum
HMS Terror during her passage home, on the starboard tack, showing sail carried to counteract effect of broken sternpost. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0275, PAF0277-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
HMS Terror's stern lifted by the ice, 28 Sept 1837. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0261, PAF0263-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Horatio [Nelson] Nelson-Ward, 1822 - 88, aged 14. Silhouette on paper or card in an oval gilt metal surround with beaded decoration, set in a black-lacquered backing board, with a brass suspension ring and hanger in the form of an acorn and oak leaves, to
1837
National Maritime Museum
Medea Towing a Turkish Corvette out of a dangerous situation in the Island of Syra 26 Augst 1836. The ‘Medea’ towing a Turkish Corvette off the rocky island of Syra (or Syros), Greece, facing left. Two ship’s boats accompany each vessel.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No II. Parting company with the Rhadamanthus off the Orkneys June 1836. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0253, PAF0255-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No IV Sailing through loose ice August 1836. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0255, PAF0257-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No IX HMS Terror showing the courtyard, and snow walls built around the ship. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0262, PAF0264-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No V. At sunset Aug... the Ship was made fast to an ice berg.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0256, PAF0258-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No X Sketch of the Terror from the Observatory. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0263, PAF0265-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XI Sketch of HMS Terror from Mt Pleasant. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0264, PAF0266-PAF0285.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XI Sketch of the position of HMS Terror the latter end of February 1837. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0265, PAF0267-PAF0285.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XIII Sketch of the position of HMS Terror in the early part of March 1837 when the ice seemed likely to run over her. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0266, PAF0268-PAF0285.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XV Sketch of HMS Terror on the morning of March 16 showing the situation in which she remained till July. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0268, PAF0270-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XVII The ship's Company were all employed clearing away the ice... when a great portion of it... broke away and nearly rolled over.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0270, PAF0272-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XX After the ship settled down... the ice saw was again set to work and the mass was cut through.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0273, PAF0275-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No XXI... the mass of ice split leaving a large mass still sticking to her.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0274, PAF0276-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
No.22 is a view of the Port side of the ship with an effect of sunrise in February 1837 and shewing the state of the snow walls at that time. Medium includes graphite. See also BHC3655.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymph (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship without a poop deck.
Reverse: Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymphe (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship with a poop deck. This plan is the neat version of the sketch on ZAZ2550.
Signed by William Stone
25 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymphe (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship without a poop deck. The plan includes alterations to the accommodation in pencil. This plan is th
25 January 1837
National Maritime Museum