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All 1347American Air Museum
American Air Museum 2
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 542
Sjöhistoriska museet 265
Kulturarv Västernorrland 213
Bohusläns museum 81
Vänersborgs museum 36
Miliseum 13
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 10
Marinmuseum 4
Flygvapenmuseum 3
Historisch Museum Ede 3
Rijksmuseum 2
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 2
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 1
Länsmuseet Gävleborg 1
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 1
Flickr Commons
State Library and Archives of Florida 34
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 13
Swedish National Heritage Board 7
Provincial Archives of Alberta 7
The U.S. National Archives 5
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 4
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 4
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 4
State Library of New South Wales collection 3
MissouriStateArchives 3
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 3
Royal Australian Historical Society 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 1
NASA on The Commons 1
The National Archives UK 1
Imperial War Museums
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 3
Other 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 47
National Maritime Museum
Uniforms 10
Ceramics 3
Coins & Commemorative Medals 2
Ship Models 2
Prints & Drawings 2
Antiquities - Ships Equipment 1
Glass 1
Antiquities - Tools 1
Jewellery 1
Figureheads & Carved Decorations 1
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1878 1
1892 1
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1915 4287
1916 8296
1917 7149
1918 6858
1919 885
1920 303
1921 135
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1923 28
1924 18
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1928 29
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1930 26
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1936 28
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1938 29
1939 25
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1942 32
1943 28
1944 51
1945 41
1946 39
1947 38
1948 34
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1950 52
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1952 52
1953 56
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1955 46
1956 62
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1958 65
1959 59
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1961 66
1962 52
1963 53
1964 69
1965 67
1966 56
1967 59
1968 51
1969 56
1970 37
1971 59
1972 42
1973 37
1974 36
1975 25
1976 38
1977 39
1978 42
1979 31
1980 28
1981 27
1982 32
1983 18
1984 19
1985 21
1986 16
1987 11
1988 11
1989 6
1990 11
1991 5
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1994 2
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1998 2
1999 4
2002 1
2009 4
2010 1
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2012 1
2015 1
2017 1
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).
