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).
Corbiere, Jersey. A powerful sketch showing the relationship between sea, sky and land which was made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. He has focused on the power and movement of the sea by emphasizing the peaks and troughs, and using thick whi
1928
National Maritime Museum
Corbiere, Jersey. A sketch showing a seascape of waves breaking diagonally on the right. The scene is conveyed through the use of colour and brush strokes. The sea is streaked green and lilac with lighter coloured foam on the crests of the waves. Everett
1928
National Maritime Museum
Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Frazer Sueter, 1872-1960. A head and shoulders portrait, with the sitter's head shown in left profile, wearing modified mess dress including an evening cloak and with medal miniatures. Sueter was the son of a Fleet paymaster.
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape in Jersey. A seascape at Corbiere, Jersey. The sea is shown breaking towards the shore in a series of horizontal bands positioned diagonally across the sketch. The sea is shown as a series of loosely painted green and blue short brush strokes and
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Corbiere. A sketch of the sea made while Everett was at Corbiere in Jersey. He was there from 13 January to 6 February for three weeks. The artist has sketched the rhythmic sequencing of the waves using hatched patterning to depict their movemen
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Corbiere. A sketch of the sea made while the artist visited Corbiere, Jersey. He stayed there for three weeks from 13 January to 6 February for three weeks to paint the constantly changing sea and sky. The low viewpoint, is on the same height as
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A fleeting impression of a lively sea seascape with a ship silhouetted against the horizon on the right. The sea and sky are loosely sketched with hatched areas of white creating the effect of movement. Dramatic impact is created by cont
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while Everett was staying at Corbiere in Jersey. He painted a large number of such sketches, observing the movement of waves approaching the shore, experimenting with colour and form to achieve the desired effect
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey, focusing on the relationship between the sea and sky. The sea in the foreground has been reduced to a collection of horizontal strips of colour, darkening towards the d
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey, showing the beach in the foreground, sea and sky. The sky dominates the image and Everett has adopted a formalistic approach, reducing the clouds to patterns and blocks
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. At the point of the empty horizon the sky glows in bands of pink, yellow and grey blue. The sketch concentrates on the movement of waves and on the honeycomb effect of
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. Everett painted a large number of sketches observing the movement of waves approaching the shore. He experimented with colour and form to achieve the effects he sought
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. The viewpoint means the waves almost break at eye level. Through the use of form and colour Everett creates a dramatic evocation of sky and sea, potentially threatening
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was staying at Corbiere in Jersey. A small ship is shown ploughing though a heavy sea on the right, with funnels just visible above the waves and smoke trailing behind the ship. The waves are sho
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea made while the artist was staying at Corbiere, Jersey. He went there from 13 January to 6 February, 1928, to paint and sketch the sea. In this seascape the artist has concentrated on the rhythmic sequencing of the wav
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea, probably made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. Everett painted a large number of sketches showing the movement of waves approaching and breaking close to shore. He continually experimented with colour and
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of the sea, probably made while the artist was at Corbiere in Jersey. Everett painted a large number of sketches showing the movement of waves approaching and breaking close to shore. The crests of the waves are painted with thi
1928
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Jersey. A sketch of waves coming inshore on the beach at Corbiere, Jersey. Everett stayed there for three weeks from 13 January to 6 February 1928 to concentrate on the visual effects of waves and light over the sea during the winter. This sketc
1928
National Maritime Museum