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Filters
Source
All 3727American Air Museum
American Air Museum 699
Europeana
Sjöhistoriska museet 271
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 265
Bohusläns museum 113
Flygvapenmuseum 57
Rijksmuseum 41
Tekniska museet 32
Vänersborgs museum 29
Kulturarv Västernorrland 21
Aaltense Musea 21
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 18
Miliseum 17
Riksantikvarieämbetet 10
CODA Museum 5
Marinmuseum 2
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 2
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 1
Örebro läns museum 1
Historisch Museum Ede 1
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 1
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 1
Flickr Commons
Swedish National Heritage Board 18
State Library of Queensland, Australia 17
The U.S. National Archives 16
Australian War Memorial collection 11
Costică Acsinte Archive 9
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 7
State Library and Archives of Florida 4
MissouriStateArchives 4
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 2
State Library of New South Wales collection 2
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 2
The Library of Congress 2
UW Digital Collections 2
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 1
National Museum of Denmark 1
The National Archives UK 1
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
Imperial War Museums
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 1595
Other 70
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 63
War Office Second World War Official Collection 36
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 34
Admiralty Official Collection 26
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 14
War Diary In Four Volumes 8
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 7
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 2
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 2
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 2
Belfast Telegraph Collection 1
Life Story (by date of death) 28
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 36
Navigational Instruments 25
Uniforms 23
Ship Models 14
Oil Paintings 9
Orders & Medals 4
Historic Photographic Negatives 4
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 4
Coins & Commemorative Medals 2
Edged Weapons 2
Antiquities - Ships Equipment 1
Horological Instruments 1
Charts & Maps 1
Ship Badges 1
Firearms 1
Year
All 5791802 1
1816 1
1824 1
1829 1
1834 1
1848 2
1897 1
1898 3
1900 1
1901 1
1902 1
1909 3
1911 2
1912 9
1914 17
1915 188
1916 104
1917 67
1918 23
1926 1
1930 2
1931 2
1932 1
1933 5
1936 1
1937 3
1938 3
1939 1
1940 1
1942 2
1943 18
1945 8
1946 15
1948 55
1949 14
1950 3
1953 2
1954 2
1955 1
1957 2
1958 3
1959 3
1960 1
1965 1
1967 1
1968 1
About this site
This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. 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
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 code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
