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!
Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis [John Flynn?]
Taken some time in 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Reading room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney, circa 1929
Taken some time in 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Santa Claus at Canberra Airport, ca. 1929
Taken some time in 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Sub-Antarctic bird - the Kerguelen Tern / Frank Hurley
Taken some time in 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
The Royal Hawaiian Band [?] performing, Honolulu, Oahu, 1929 / C.M. Yonge
Taken some time in 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Aerial view of small outback settlement, April 1929.
Taken some time in Apr 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Aborigines and stockmen on horseback in front of de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth biplane airliner G-AUHW 'Canberra' wave goodbye to Les Holden and crew, Flora Valley, Western Australia, 23 April 1929.
Taken 23 Apr 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Les Holden's de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth biplane airliner G-AUHW 'Canberra' in a Qantas hangar is examined by crowd, Longreach, Queensland, 25 April 1929.
Taken 25 Apr 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Truck towing iron hoop to clear field for use as an airfield, Bourke, New South Wales, 26 April 1929.
Taken 26 Apr 1929
National Library of Australia Commons