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).
work of the lightship men: 1000 tasks. A written work by poet Kay Syrad, commissioned in 2013 for a multi-media art project, ‘Last Station’, funded by ACE, with support from Trinity House and inspired by the history and work of the manned Ligh
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National Maritime Museum
Staff Sergeant Gerald Tucker. Right Waist Gunner, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. Sgt Gerald Tucker (whose first name is often misspelled Gerold) was Right Waist Gunner on B-17 #42-3119 when it was shot down on the Hamburg mission of 26 July 1943.
Died 17 January 2013
American Air Museum
Colonel Richard Baynes. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. 35 missions. 6 gas hauling missions flying gas to Patton's army. Author of Replacement Crew in library.
Air Medal w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
Died 26 January 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Clifford Ellison. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. 35 combat missions
AM w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 31 January 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Andrew Conway. Bombardier, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group on Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho) Special Orders #32 dated 1 February 1943, Lykes Henderson Crew, 2 combat missions.
Prisoner of War (POW). Shot down 26 June 1943
Died 13 February 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Donald Roscoe. Navigator, 490th Bomb Group. 35 missions between 16 Nov 1944 and 11 Mar 1945, all with the same crew. A few holes in the B-17 but no one was injured. 10 lucky guys, especially on the Merseberg raid 25 Nov 1944 when losses w
Died 17 February 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Douglas Space. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 17 February 2013
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Henry Johnson. Pilot, 493rd Bomb Group. A 1937 graduate of the Maine Township High School at Park Ridge, Illinois, Henry Johnson was a studio merchandise manager for the Montgomery Ward catalog company before enlisting in the Air Corps in Decem
Died 22 February 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Bernard Kellenyi. Pilot, 388th Bomb Group. After enlisting in the Army Air Force and earning his degree in Architecture from Catholic University he was accepted at Flight School. Flight training was completed at bases in Florida, Ohio an
Died 24 February 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Louis Loevsky. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. B-24H #41-29434 'Terry and the Pirates' was involved in a mid-air collision after the other a/c was hit by flak over the target of Berlin and crashed W of Oranienburg, GR on 22 Mar 19
Died 24 February 2013
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant Pate Given. Radio Operator, 389th Bomb Group.
Died 8 March 2013
American Air Museum
Lloyd Olson. Ball Turret Gunner, 447th Bomb Group. Gardners Pardners'
Died 22 March 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) John Brockman. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 25 March 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Lester Bishop. Navigator, 490th Bomb Group. Flew as navigator on Allan crew in B-17 #4294853. Arrived at Eye in May 1944.
2 DFC, 3 Air Medals
Died 29 March 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Hubert Sullins. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. Also called up for the Korean War. Retired from the USAF with the rank of Major
Died 8 April 2013
American Air Museum
Captain Stuart Peace. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. completed 35 missions in WW II
Was the only survivor of a mid-air collision while riding as a formation observer on 16 September 1944. His co-pilot, Fred Deck, the 787th BS Commander, John O. Cockey and seve
Died 9 May 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Albert Barlow. Fighter Pilot, 353rd Fighter Group. Assigned to 351FS, 353FG, 8AF USAAF. 60 missions. Credited 1 kill. Baled out of his aircraft on 29-May-44 and rescued by ASR [RTD]. Hit by flak and baled out when engine afire, A/C P-47 &
Died 20 May 2013
American Air Museum
Sergeant Nelson Brott. Right Waist Gunner, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. On his 6th mission, Nelson Brott was Top Turret Gunner on B-24 # 42-100415 when it ran into mechanical trouble on return in the afternoon from the 8 August 1944 mission to b
Died 23 May 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Marcus Dellefemine. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 26 May 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Wilfred Perkins. Nose Gunner/Toggelier, 466th Bomb Group. ATO/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 17 June 2013
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Thomas McQueen. Flight Engineer - Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Prisoner of War (POW) Hit by flak and crashed at Harveng on 7/12/44 in B-24 #42100365
POW
Died 17 June 2013
American Air Museum
Captain John Hardin. Pilot, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. John T Hardin was a pilot with the 91st Bomb Group.
His most memorable mission was the one when they went to bomb the U-Boat Pen at La Pallice, France. His plane "Mizpah" collid
Died 8 July 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas McNamara. Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group. Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Rotterdam on 8/9/44 in B-24 Hot Box #4129374
POW
Died 13 July 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Edgar Michaels. Navigator, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Edgar Michaels enlisted in the Air Corps in September 1942. He trained as an aerial navigator on B-24s at Ellington Field, Tex
Died 21 July 2013
American Air Museum
Major Roswell Freedman. Fighter Pilot, 361st Fighter Group. Flew 4 missions on D-Day, 3 days later hit diving at a troop train (won Purple Heart). Battle of the Bulge.
Post war: Joined 27th Fighter Wing in SAC to escort B-36s. Flew in 2 high flights fer
Died 20 August 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant William Horney. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. William Horney Jr, "Bill", as he was called by family and friends, grew up in small towns in New Jersey. He graduated from high school in Vineland and then attended college at Rutgers
Died 22 August 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Robert Aston. Navigator; Pilot, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. Documents attached to database form.
DFC/ AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster
state bar of Ga honored Aston for helping veterans to acquire their medals
Died 1 September 2013
American Air Museum
Colonel John Henry. Fighter Pilot, 339th Fighter Group. John B Henry served as a pilot with the 339th Fighter Group. He flew P-51 'San Antone Rose'. Completed tour of duty April 11, 1945.
Legion of Merit w/4 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC, Air Medal w/7
Died 2 September 2013
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Gunther Hepprich. Radio Operator, 458th Bomb Group.
Died 16 September 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Earnest Degan. Waist Gunner, 487th Bomb Group. Flew on B-17G #43-37918.
Died 6 October 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Clifford Bakkom. Co-Pilot, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 9 October 2013
American Air Museum
Major Joseph Tikey. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Favorite aircraft was "Slick Chick" as his crew had named her. She would go on to be the longest serving 466th BG aircraft. Completed 30 missions: Three as Squadron Lead, Seven as Group Lead, Nin
Died 17 October 2013
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Stanford Goldberg. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 19 October 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Otto Nuerauter. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 20 October 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Charles Seth. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. Damaged by flak and fighters and landed in Sweden on 6/21/44 in B-24 Lovely Lady's Avngr #4440093 INT
Died 22 October 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Roland Stewart. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 23 October 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) George Kadlec. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 1 November 2013
American Air Museum
Flight Officer Paul Beam. Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group. Retired from the USAF as a Lt. Colonel
Died 5 November 2013
American Air Museum
Captain Richard Sheil. Pilot, 94th Bomb Group. Dick graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1941. At the outbreak of World War II, Dick joined the Army Air Force and trained as a B-17 pilot. As a pilot in the 8th Air Force 94th Bomb Group, he flew 3
Died 9 November 2013
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Milton Holly. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 18 November 2013
American Air Museum