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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
Oceanography 3
Historic Photographic Negatives 3
Charts & Maps 3
Historic Photograph Albums 2
Flags 1
Orders & Medals 1
Firearms 1
Coins & Commemorative Medals 1
Year
All 27841860 3
1862 1
1863 8
1886 1
1893 1
1899 1
1900 5
1901 1
1902 5
1903 2
1904 1
1905 2
1906 2
1907 9
1908 17
1909 30
1910 15
1911 18
1912 19
1913 21
1914 232
1915 254
1916 246
1917 556
1918 371
1919 107
1920 24
1921 32
1922 13
1923 18
1924 1
1927 2
1932 1
1933 6
1934 7
1935 1
1936 1
1937 1
1938 7
1939 51
1940 100
1941 147
1942 95
1943 70
1944 129
1945 77
1946 21
1947 3
1949 7
1951 1
1952 2
1953 2
1954 2
1956 11
1957 1
1958 2
1959 2
1960 1
1961 3
1963 5
1965 1
1966 5
1967 1
1968 2
1969 1
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!
