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All 1542American Air Museum
American Air Museum 4
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 464
Kulturarv Västernorrland 196
Sjöhistoriska museet 164
Bohusläns museum 96
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 80
Vänersborgs museum 78
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 55
Miliseum 50
Tekniska museet 26
Flygvapenmuseum 9
Marinmuseum 6
Rijksmuseum 6
Länsmuseet Gävleborg 4
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 4
Historisch Museum Ede 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 1
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
CODA Museum 1
Örebro läns museum 1
Flickr Commons
Royal Australian Historical Society 62
State Library and Archives of Florida 44
Swedish National Heritage Board 36
The U.S. National Archives 18
State Library of Queensland, Australia 16
The Library of Congress 14
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 13
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 6
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 5
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 5
National Library of Australia Commons 4
MissouriStateArchives 3
State Library of New South Wales collection 3
Smithsonian Institution 3
NASA on The Commons 2
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
Provincial Archives of Alberta 2
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 2
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 34
National Maritime Museum
Coins & Commemorative Medals 6
Uniforms 4
Navigational Instruments 3
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 2
Orders & Medals 1
Ships Equipment 1
Astronomical Instruments 1
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1884 1
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1895 2
1896 1
1898 2
1899 11
1901 1
1902 1
1903 3
1904 1
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1910 1
1911 3
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1914 2
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1918 5
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1924 12
1925 27
1926 25
1927 14
1928 8
1929 3
1930 7
1931 9
1932 5
1933 2
1934 11
1935 14
1936 5
1937 5
1938 3
1939 21
1940 11
1941 8
1942 5
1943 4
1944 4
1945 2
1946 18
1947 78
1948 44
1949 45
1950 20
1951 13
1952 12
1953 30
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1970 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).
