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
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 code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Radio studio at the Aleksanterinkatu 46 premises
Taken some time in 1927
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A man is recording sound effects, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A man playing the Kantele in front of a broadcast van, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Broadcast van and a reindeer, Inari, Lapland, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Engineer Eero Frantsila beside Telefunken transmission equipment in Lahti radio station, 1930's.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Martti Jukola reporting from a sports event, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Office in the Radio House in Fabianinkatu, Helsinki, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
President Kyösti Kallio speaking on the radio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio announcer Ebba Jakobson-Lilius in a continuity unit, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm interviewing a man fixing a car, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Reporter and announcer Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erkki Linko in the studio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio House in Fabianinkatu, control room of Studio 2, 1934.
Taken some time in 1934
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Prime ministers of Nordic countries in the Dramastudio of Radio House, 1935.
Taken some time in 1935
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Parts of the 10 kW transmitter destined for Vaasa broadcasting station are loaded in the courtyard of Fabianinkatu radio house, ca. 1937.
Taken 1 Jan 1937
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
An employee is finishing the power gain field destined for Sortavala broadcasting station in Yleisradio's workshop, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Control room and radio studio in Fabianinkatu headquarters of Yleisradio, ca 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Two mechanics manufacturing a 1 kW medium waves transmitter in Yleisradio's workshop, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Yleisradio's service workshop in Fabianinkatu, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A low voltage board destined for Turku broadcasting station in the courtyard of Fabianinkatu radio house, ca. 1939.
Taken 1 Jan 1939
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Rectifier for the Olympia 40/3 distributing amplifier made for the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games, ca. 1940.
Taken 1 Jan 1940
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Olympia 40/1 line amplifier made in Yleisradio's workshop and intended for the broadcasting of the 1940 Olympics, which were later cancelled.
Taken 7 Feb 1940
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Short wave radio telephone made in Yleisradio's workshop, 1940.
Taken 1 May 1940
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Prime Minister Risto Ryti speaking on the radio 18.8.1940.
Taken 18 Aug 1940
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Three channel microphone amplifier Olympia 40/3 made in Yle's workshop. Combined portable amplifier and 3-circuit mixer. Originally a series was built in 1939 for the Olympic games (1940?).
Taken 1 Feb 1942
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Battery amplifier PVE2 with a headset and a capacitor microphone by Telefunken, 1943.
Taken 10 Aug 1943
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Technician at Yleisradio's information desk in Fabianinkatu radio house, ca. 1944.
Taken 1 Aug 1944
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Pasila broadcasting station's short wave transmitter Helsinki II and Helsinki III, 1944.
Taken 29 Aug 1944
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Syncro-Clock time keeper, Yleisradio's driving clock and a kind of radio that received the time signal from the German hydrological institute's chronometer. A radio set which controlled several
Taken 1 Jan 1945
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Conductor Toivo Haapanen leads the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, 24.5.1945.
Taken 24 May 1945
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Mechanic Kauko Mustakallio manufacturing a frequence modulated 1kW transmitter, its electronic power converter and output stage in Yleisradio's workshop, 1946.
Taken 11 Mar 1946
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Helsinki 4.10.1946, residential area
Taken 4 Oct 1946
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Radio House of the Finnish Broadcasting Company in Helsinki, street view.
Taken 29 May 1947
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Helsinki City Hall in September 1947
Taken some time in Sep 1947
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Havis Amanda sculpture by Ville Vallgren in Helsinki
Taken some time in 1948
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The House of the Estates in Kruununhaka
Taken some time in Jun 1948
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
18.11.1950 Television exhibition at Stockmann department store in Helsinki
Taken 18 Nov 1950
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
RCA television transmitter in The Finnish Broadcasting Company
Taken 19 Jul 1956
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Pantason 16 mm film projector and vidicon camera, 1957
Taken some time in 1957
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Television transmitter is being installed into the Helsinki Olympic stadium tower, 22.1.1957
Taken 22 Jan 1957
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The first public telecasting by Yle 30.11.1957, Christmas party
Taken 30 Nov 1957
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle