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!
Celestial navigational globe. Blue pencil from a celestial navigational globe. Astronomical details on the sphere show stars without constellation figures or contours. There is a labelled magnitude table above the title in a rectangular cartouche. Some st
1920
National Maritime Museum
Celestial navigational globe. Celestial navigational globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include stars marked with star shapes, some are named but most are only represented by a Greek letter. The constellations are marked in as much as they are name
1920
National Maritime Museum
Celestial navigational globe. Celestial navigational globe. Astronomical details on the sphere show stars without constellation figures or contours. There is a labelled magnitude table above the title in a rectangular cartouche. Some stars are labelled by
1920
National Maritime Museum