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Sjöhistoriska museet 77
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 53
Rijksmuseum 48
Bohusläns museum 28
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 15
Marinmuseum 14
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 13
Tekniska museet 10
Vänersborgs museum 10
Skansen 5
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
Ajuntament de Girona 1
Flickr Commons
Swedish National Heritage Board 3
State Library of Queensland, Australia 2
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 2
National Library of Norway 2
The U.S. National Archives 2
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1
National Library NZ on The Commons 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 1
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 8
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 7
Oil Paintings 5
Coins & Commemorative Medals 5
Firearms 5
Ceramics 4
Miscellaneous Antiquities 3
Historic Photograph Albums 2
Navigational Instruments 1
Ethnography 1
Orders & Medals 1
Flags 1
Horological Instruments 1
Ordnance 1
Ship Models 1
Year
All 32411800 5
1801 4
1802 19
1803 6
1804 4
1805 7
1806 11
1807 6
1808 19
1809 2
1810 5
1811 5
1812 5
1813 23
1814 11
1815 10
1816 8
1817 16
1818 4
1819 9
1820 7
1821 10
1822 6
1823 7
1824 4
1825 4
1826 8
1827 5
1828 8
1829 6
1830 16
1831 19
1832 13
1833 3
1834 6
1835 1
1836 1
1837 13
1838 11
1839 6
1840 12
1841 2
1842 7
1843 12
1844 4
1845 1
1846 11
1847 21
1848 18
1849 28
1850 17
1851 19
1852 22
1853 21
1854 23
1855 23
1856 19
1857 20
1858 31
1859 13
1860 25
1861 28
1862 15
1863 27
1864 10
1865 16
1866 6
1867 6
1868 13
1869 21
1870 39
1871 33
1872 5
1873 21
1874 23
1875 8
1876 10
1877 9
1878 19
1879 29
1880 63
1881 10
1882 4
1883 19
1884 30
1885 14
1886 62
1887 46
1888 36
1889 17
1890 19
1891 9
1892 10
1893 15
1894 48
1895 70
1896 28
1897 12
1898 64
1899 44
1900 50
1901 59
1902 57
1903 60
1904 40
1905 43
1906 21
1907 22
1908 52
1909 38
1910 34
1911 12
1912 39
1913 25
1914 25
1915 12
1916 13
1917 42
1918 12
1919 13
1920 19
1921 15
1922 13
1923 23
1924 15
1925 87
1926 20
1927 24
1928 53
1929 35
1930 50
1931 18
1932 32
1933 23
1934 12
1935 43
1936 13
1937 32
1938 8
1939 12
1940 96
1941 31
1942 29
1943 41
1944 12
1945 16
1946 14
1947 36
1948 6
1949 23
1950 1
1951 1
1952 1
1953 1
1955 1
1956 1
1957 2
1958 23
1960 7
1961 25
1962 3
1965 6
1966 1
1967 4
1969 4
About this site
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
Data sources
Update 16 October 2018
- Addition of nearly 60,000 superb dated autochromes (one of the earliest commercial colour processes) from the Musée Albert Kahn, accessed through the Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
- Complete refresh of Flickr Commons, Europeana, and National Maritime Museum data
- Added pagination as many dates now have signifcantly more than 100 images!
Current totals by data source
- Europeana - 72434 items
- Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines - 58556 items
- Imperial War Museums - 38229 items
- Lives of the First World War - 33134 items
- National Maritime Museum - 29529 items
- Flickr Commons - 13362 items
- American Air Museum - 5054 items
Current totals by date accuracy
- Precise date - 206835 items
- Accurate to month only - 16699 items
- Accurate to year only - 26764 items
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;
Technology overview
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).
Licence
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).
