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).
. Card for a liquid compass.
Card: A mica card attached to a domed float. The card is white with black markings graduated to quarter points.
Needle: Two edge bar needles attached to float. Dims 3.5" x 0.5" (9 cm x 1.2 cm)
Pivot: The pivot
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Cutlass, the hilt of the cutlass consists of a black steel, half-basket guard with turned edges. The cast iron grip has been moulded. The flat steel blade is straight with a double-edged spear point. The obverse of the blade is engraved with an arrow ab
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Cutlass, the hilt of the cutlass consists of black steel half-basket guard with turned edges, and a moulded cast iron grip. The steel blade is flat and straight, with a double-edged spear point. The obverse of the blade is engraved with an arrow and the
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Dirk, made after 1856, which belonged to Admiral Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson (1875-1956). The hilt of the dirk consists of a gilt crosspiece with inversed quillons with acorn ends. In the centre on the obverse of the crosspiece is a crown and foul anc
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Galilean binoculars with a leather covered body, sliding sun shades and a central focussing wheel. The eyepieces do not focus independently. Silver plaques on each barrel record that the binoculars were presented by Queen Victoria to Henry Gilbert Hillm
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Solid half-basket hilted sword, which belonged to Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-1920). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt, solid half-basket guard, with raised bars and a crown and anchor badge. There is a folding flap on t
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Wooden handled, jointed rod for the fine adjustment of inclination and rotary movements of refractor telescope AST0910.
1890
National Maritime Museum
. Wooden handled, jointed rod for the fine adjustment of inclination and rotary movements of refractor telescope AST0910.
1890
National Maritime Museum
Australia - East Coast. Port Jackson. Compiled by Lieutenants T.F. Pullen and G.W. Gubbins, H.M.S. "Lark". From information supplied by the New South Wales Government. Single sheet. Engaved. Scale: 1:12,131. 1 Inset. Port Jackson, continued on a
1892; 1890
National Maritime Museum
Davy Jones's Locker. 'Davy Jones’s Locker' was one of four paintings exhibited by Wyllie at the Royal Academy in 1890. In 'Peregrine Pickle', the writer Tobias Smollet described the sailors’ devil, Davy Jones, in thes
1890
National Maritime Museum
Electric cable section in glazed case. Slice of electric cable in a glazed wooden case. Plaque 'The First concentric Cable and First Paper Cable. Designed and made by S.Z. de Ferranti in 1890 for 6 1/2 miles service at 11000 volts from Deptford to L
1890
National Maritime Museum
Emigrants, New York. Invited by Sir Thomas Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, Wyllie, his wife and son, Harold, sailed from Liverpool to New York on board the liner 'Majestic' on her maiden voyage in April 1890.
This is one of a set of dra
1890
National Maritime Museum
Greenhithe 1901. A fabric covered sketchbook with cardboard covered that are lined with paper. The outside and inside of the covers are covered in inscriptions and sketches. The front has the inscription “Greenhithe 1901”. Inside the back cove
1901; 1890
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the opening of the Forth Bridge, 1890. Medal commemorating the opening of the Forth Bridge, 1890. Obverse: View of the bridge in recession (right to left), boats and distant coastline. Legend: 'THE FORTH BRIDGE.' Exergue:
1890
National Maritime Museum
Medal depicting the Admiral Courbet memorial. Medal depicting the Admiral Courbet memorial. Obverse: View of the monument. On the top, a full-length figure of Admiral Amédée Courbet (1827-1885) in uniform, a female figure by his side. The pe
1890
National Maritime Museum
Ministry of Marine Gold Medal. Obverse: Head of France with diadem (L). Legend: "REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE". Reverse: An oval shield with inscription having as supporters a female figure (L) holding a laurel branch, and Mercury (R) with caduceus, bot
1890
National Maritime Museum
Portable refractor telescope. This is a portable brass refracting telescope on a conical pillar and tripod stand. This telescope belonged to Lt. Cdr. R. B. Davidson RN who was given it by his father.
It is a telescope with an object glass of three inches
1890
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, International Electric Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1890. Prize medal, International Electric Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1890. Obverse: Britannia seated (left). She holds in her left hand, a winged wheel, olive and palm branches in her right. The Forth
1890
National Maritime Museum
R.N.A.V. cutter race tankard 1890. Pewter tankard won at the R.N.A.V. cutter race, 1890.
Tankard with two reeded bands of decoration, and three square-sectioned scroll handles. The inscription running round the top section reads: 'ROYAL NAVAL ARTILL
1890
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901. Captain's hat, cocked in a metal box.
1890
National Maritime Museum
Thames waterman's prize medal. Thames waterman's prize medal presented to M.J. Mears and formerly attached to his waterman's coat (UNI0849) won at the Eastern Thames Regatta, 1st September 1902. A Maltese Cross, uniface, rayed, surmounted b
1890
National Maritime Museum
Fighting ships at sea, 1890s. Two black and grey wash study drawings, one above the other on one sheet, of naval vessels of the 1890s, though not of specifically recognizable classes. The upper one appears to show two or three first-class torpedo boats i
1890s
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Royal Observatory Magnetic Pavilion in Park. Floor plan entitled "Greenwich Royal Observatory Magnetic Pavilion in Park". Depicts five external views and a ground plan of the Pavillion.
1890s
National Maritime Museum
Lord Dufferin's Yacht Racing. Typical of the black and white drawings which Wyllie produced for publication in magazines, notably the 'Graphic', although it is not known where this drawing was reproduced. Wyllie has used white heightening (
1890s
National Maritime Museum
Seven studies of 'Orlando'-class armoured cruisers and torpedo boats. The larger twin-funnelled vessels are 'Orlando'-class armoured cruisers. There were seven vessels in the class, all launched in 1886 or 1887, and they were all sold
probably 1890s
National Maritime Museum
Straits of Gibraltar. This watercolour probably dates from the early 1890s and is likely to have been made while Wyllie was on a cruise on board the Orient Line 'Garonne' in 1893. Because some of the crew and passengers died of yellow fever the
early 1890s
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Display stand for the terrestrial facsimile globe.
Reproduction: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Part of meridian line for the terrestrial facsimile globe.
Reproduction: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Part of meridian ring for the terrestrial facsimile globe.
Reproduction: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Part of meridian ring for the terrestrial facsimile globe.
Reproduction: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Pivot from display stand for the terrestrial facsimile globe.
Reproduction: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial facsimile globe. Terrestrial facsimile globe. Geographical details on the sphere show continents labelled 'EVROPA', 'AFFRICA' and 'ASIA'. The new continent America, which is not labelled, is separate from Asia. Am
Gores: circa 1556-60; Facsimile globe: 1890
National Maritime Museum
Albert Griffiths "Griffo", Featherweight Champion [of the World]
Taken some time in 1890
National Library of Australia Commons
Cable tram across the Taramakau River, ca 1890s
Taken some time in 1890
National Library NZ on The Commons
Engine 281 in the locomotive sheds at Ipswich, ca. 1890
Taken some time in 1890
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Enligt notering: "Vägen mot Lindesnäs" på fjorden s/s "Robert Thorburn" omkr. 1895".
1 January 1890
Bohusläns museum
Flood, Railway Station, Bourke, 1890
Taken some time in 1890
State Library of New South Wales collection
Fredrikshovs slott, kasern för Svea livgarde I 1 1802-1887.
1 January 1890
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Grupporträtt av Andra livgardets musikkår vintern 1890-91.
1 January 1890
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Grupporträtt av officerare och soldater vid Norra skånska infanteriregementet I 24, 1890.
1 January 1890
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Grupporträtt av officerskåren vid Svea artilleriregemente A 1.
1 January 1890
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden