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Source
All 4689American Air Museum
American Air Museum 1690
Europeana
Sjöhistoriska museet 277
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 244
Vänersborgs museum 157
Bohusläns museum 75
Kulturarv Västernorrland 58
Flygvapenmuseum 58
Miliseum 22
Rijksmuseum 12
Historisch Museum Ede 10
Tekniska museet 7
Riksantikvarieämbetet 7
CODA Museum 6
Aaltense Musea 6
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 5
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 4
Marinmuseum 4
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 3
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 1
Cluj County Library 1
Flickr Commons
National Library of Australia Commons 44
Swedish National Heritage Board 19
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 19
Provincial Archives of Alberta 15
State Library of Queensland, Australia 9
The U.S. National Archives 7
State Library of New South Wales collection 6
Australian War Memorial collection 5
State Library and Archives of Florida 4
MissouriStateArchives 4
NASA on The Commons 3
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3
The National Archives UK 2
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
Costică Acsinte Archive 1
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 1
National Museum of Denmark 1
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 1
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Imperial War Museums
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 1258
Other 129
War Office Second World War Official Collection 100
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 61
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 55
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 23
Admiralty Official Collection 20
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 13
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 13
Heydecker Joe Julius Collection 12
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 11
Zimnal Marian (lieutenant Colonel) Collection 03 10
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 6
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 2
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 1
War Diary In Four Volumes 1
Life Story (by date of death) 51
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 44
Oil Paintings 25
Uniforms 14
Navigational Instruments 14
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 11
Sculpture 4
Historic Photographic Negatives 3
Charts & Maps 3
Oceanography 3
Historic Photograph Albums 2
Flags 1
Orders & Medals 1
Firearms 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!