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).
'Mawson Antarctic Expedition 1929' [in] 'Discovery'. Lightweight white 78 r.p.m. gramophone record. Inscribed 'Presented to the MAWSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1929 by the GOODSON GRAMOPHONE RECORD COMPANY LTD. LONDON, ENGLAND. Patent
1929
National Maritime Museum
'Victory' (1737). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with decoration detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Victory' (1737), a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker. Chapman
circa 1754
National Maritime Museum
. Bowl-Dia. 10" (25.4cm) Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber unsighted. Bottom of bowl fitted with an opaque domed glass which is partly filled with oil (?). Black painted brass verge ring graduated quadrantally in degrees. I
1929
National Maritime Museum
. Box of "Flinders Bars" for ACO 2350 containing eight bars; 3/16" dia. 2 x 19.8 " (50.5cm), 3 x 10" (25.4cm) and 3 x 6.75" (17.2cm) in length (including 2.25" (5.7cm) handles at each end of bar. Each bar is cased in bra
1929
National Maritime Museum
. Liquid compass
Card: A mica band (broken), 1.25" wide attached to the float by four radial arms. The card is white with black markings graduated to quarter points and 0 - 360 in degrees. There is also another 0 - 360 degree markings set 180 degre
1929
National Maritime Museum
. Needle balanced on pivot.Needle graduated 0-25 either side of pivot, fitted with a venier scale at each end. Weights on needle arms adjusted by two rods operated from outside bowl.
Fitted in wooden box 13.5 x 6.5 x 3.25"(34.3 x 16.5 x 8.3cm). Fitte
1929
National Maritime Museum
Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal 1911-1936. Awarded to John Roberts. Obverse: Head of George V (L). Below bust "G.R.I.". Legend: "FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE AT SEA". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1929
National Maritime Museum
Fort de France, Martinique, from the 'Suzanne'. A sketch showing the profile of the coastline of Fort de France, Martinique. A small boat is visible on the right on a calm sea, with the range of coastal hills in the middle distance. The orange g
1929
National Maritime Museum
Guadeloupe: a coastal view, Pointe-à-Pitre,. An inscription at lower right includes 'P a P': done on Everett's last sailing-ship voyage, in the 'Suzanne', early 1929. [PvdM 5/15]
1929
National Maritime Museum
Holmes master compass and binnacle. Bowl: Dia 10.0" (25.4 cm) Glass bowl, filler plug and expansion chamber at base. Carried in a white painted brass frame, mounted in a white painted brass gimbal ring 12.0" (30.5 cm) dia, attached to binnacle.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805. Waxwork head of Nelson, originally part of a full-figure model that is believed to have been made as part of a tableau of him in his cabin for an exhibition at Antwerp about 1929, probably the Exposition Internationale Maritime
circa 1929
National Maritime Museum
Life-saving medal. Life-saving medal. Obverse: Variant form of a Tau-Cross in shape showing a rocky shore with cliffs beyond and a turbulent sea. In the (right) foreground a young woman, in apron and shawl, faces (left) the sea and a wrecked sailing vesse
1929
National Maritime Museum
Lifesaving Benevolent Association of New York. Awarded to John Roberts. A circular badge surrounded by a laurel garland hanging from a ship's block. Fitted with a ring and inscribed clasp. Obverse: Inscription: "THE LIFESAVING BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA
1929
National Maritime Museum
Lloyds Medal for Saving Life at Sea 1896. Awarded to John Roberts. Obverse: Leucothoe handing her scarf to Ulysses, who is clinging to a floating spar. Legend: "LEUCOTHOE NAUFRAGO SUCCURRIT". Exergue: "W.WYON RA. 1839".Reverse: Within
1929
National Maritime Museum
Martinique: Fort de France, from the 'Suzanne'. A variant version of BHC4029. Everett was at Martinique for ten days in January 1929 in the 'Suzanne' and there are two other more distant profile studies in oil of the island from seawar
1929
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) and the cruiser 'Foch'. Medal commemorating Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) and the cruiser 'Foch'. Obverse: Bust of Marshal Foch in uniform and overcoat (left). Legend: '
1929
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the tercentenary of Marblehead Massachusetts, 1929. Medal commemorating the tercentenary of Marblehead Massachusetts, 1929. Obverse: A double-ended pulling boat, in it a fisherman drawing his nets, in the background a setting sun on a
1929
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the tercentenary of the death of Admiral Piet Hein 1929. Medal commemorating the tercentenary of the death of Admiral Piet Hein 1929. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Piet Hein (1578-1629) in a ruff armour and chain (three-quarter right). Lege
1929
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal: Royal Society of Arts. Awarded to Sir E Tennyson D'Eyncourt. Obverse: Head of George V (L). Legend: "GEORGE V KING & EMPEROR PATRON MCMX". Reverse, legend: "FOUNDED 1754. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1847." Inscr
1929
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901. Box containing cocked hat and two epaulettes marked UNI0755.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901. Lieutenant's hat, cocked in a metal box with epaulettes marked UNI0755.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901. Lieutenant-Commander's epaulette. In the same box as UNI0739.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901. Lieutenant-Commander's epaulette. In the same box as UNI0739.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Seascape, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Done on Everett's last sailing ship voyage in the 'Suzanne', 1929
1929
National Maritime Museum
Voltmeter. Voltmeter. One of a pair of static voltmeters belonging to the recorder for air-earth potential.
1929
National Maritime Museum
Voltmeter. Voltmeter. One of a pair of static voltmeters belonging to the recorder for air-earth potential.
1929
National Maritime Museum
White Flag of Antarctica. White Flag of Antarctica flown by the 'Discovery' when she sailed for Antarctica carrying the BANZARE expedition (British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition) of 1929-31. It was intended as an impr
1929
National Maritime Museum
Fort de France, Martinique, from the 'Suzanne'. A sketch showing the profile of the coastline of Fort de France, Martinique. Everett has captured the intensity of the sunset over the mountains in the centre of the image. He concentrates on the r
10 January 1929
National Maritime Museum