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All 1840American Air Museum
American Air Museum 45
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 280
Sjöhistoriska museet 229
Bohusläns museum 87
Vänersborgs museum 60
Flygvapenmuseum 54
Rijksmuseum 29
Tekniska museet 25
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 23
Miliseum 13
Marinmuseum 7
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 2
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 2
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 2
Riksantikvarieämbetet 2
Kulturarv Västernorrland 1
Örebro läns museum 1
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Historisch Museum Ede 1
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 29
State Library of Queensland, Australia 26
Cornell University Library 13
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 9
Costică Acsinte Archive 7
Australian War Memorial collection 6
State Library and Archives of Florida 5
Swedish National Heritage Board 4
The Library of Congress 4
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2
National Library of Australia Commons 2
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 2
Royal Australian Historical Society 2
State Library of New South Wales collection 2
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 1
National Library NZ on The Commons 1
Provincial Archives of Alberta 1
NASA on The Commons 1
MissouriStateArchives 1
UW Digital Collections 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1
Imperial War Museums
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 333
Other 95
War Office Second World War Official Collection 76
Admiralty Official Collection 56
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 46
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 14
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 4
Belfast Telegraph Collection 3
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 2
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 2
Zimnal Marian (lieutenant Colonel) Collection 03 1
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 1
Life Story (by date of death) 32
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 83
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 41
Navigational Instruments 14
Oil Paintings 11
Horological Instruments 10
Uniforms 9
Flags 5
Ships Equipment 3
Orders & Medals 2
Ordnance 2
Edged Weapons 2
Glass 1
Oceanography 1
Ship Models 1
Historic Photographic Negatives 1
Coins & Commemorative Medals 1
Year
All 79361805 9
1810 1
1840 2
1844 3
1850 30
1851 1
1852 1
1854 1
1855 11
1856 3
1857 2
1858 1
1859 3
1860 51
1861 6
1862 8
1863 8
1864 14
1865 16
1866 6
1867 6
1868 5
1869 4
1870 22
1871 1
1872 3
1873 6
1874 6
1875 18
1876 5
1877 8
1878 5
1879 5
1880 20
1881 5
1882 9
1883 78
1884 6
1885 16
1886 3
1887 12
1888 7
1889 11
1890 22
1891 11
1892 7
1893 10
1894 28
1895 100
1896 28
1897 47
1898 44
1899 84
1900 37
1901 56
1902 41
1903 42
1904 100
1905 135
1906 60
1907 94
1908 159
1909 81
1910 89
1911 222
1912 125
1913 159
1914 95
1915 116
1916 175
1917 180
1918 219
1919 181
1920 203
1921 135
1922 104
1923 95
1924 67
1925 70
1926 45
1927 48
1928 40
1929 45
1930 96
1931 17
1932 68
1933 48
1934 72
1935 95
1936 99
1937 109
1938 108
1939 130
1940 53
1941 63
1942 87
1943 113
1944 75
1945 169
1946 163
1947 160
1948 96
1949 118
1950 288
1951 277
1952 292
1953 229
1954 93
1955 158
1956 93
1957 81
1958 51
1959 53
1960 64
1961 35
1962 27
1963 37
1964 64
1965 26
1966 29
1967 26
1968 37
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!