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All 2061American Air Museum
American Air Museum 12
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 560
Sjöhistoriska museet 312
Vänersborgs museum 265
Bohusläns museum 160
Kulturarv Västernorrland 134
Rijksmuseum 36
Miliseum 34
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 27
Tekniska museet 20
Flygvapenmuseum 11
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 8
Riksantikvarieämbetet 4
CODA Museum 3
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 3
Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár 1
Marinmuseum 1
Örebro läns museum 1
Flickr Commons
The Library of Congress 173
State Library and Archives of Florida 78
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 63
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 16
State Library of Queensland, Australia 13
Swedish National Heritage Board 13
Royal Australian Historical Society 10
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 8
The U.S. National Archives 5
MissouriStateArchives 5
Provincial Archives of Alberta 4
State Library of New South Wales collection 3
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 3
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 3
National Library of Australia Commons 3
The National Archives UK 2
NASA on The Commons 2
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1
National Library of Norway 1
UW Digital Collections 1
National Archives of Estonia 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Imperial War Museums
Other 3
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 1
War Office Second World War Official Collection 1
Life Story (by date of death) 38
National Maritime Museum
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 4
Uniforms 2
Ship Models 2
Orders & Medals 2
Horological Instruments 2
Navigational Instruments 1
Flags 1
Plate 1
Oil Paintings 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!