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Source
All 1542American Air Museum
American Air Museum 4
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 464
Kulturarv Västernorrland 196
Sjöhistoriska museet 164
Bohusläns museum 96
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 80
Vänersborgs museum 78
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 55
Miliseum 50
Tekniska museet 26
Flygvapenmuseum 9
Marinmuseum 6
Rijksmuseum 6
Länsmuseet Gävleborg 4
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 4
Historisch Museum Ede 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 1
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
CODA Museum 1
Örebro läns museum 1
Flickr Commons
Royal Australian Historical Society 62
State Library and Archives of Florida 44
Swedish National Heritage Board 36
The U.S. National Archives 18
State Library of Queensland, Australia 16
The Library of Congress 14
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 13
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 6
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 5
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 5
National Library of Australia Commons 4
MissouriStateArchives 3
State Library of New South Wales collection 3
Smithsonian Institution 3
NASA on The Commons 2
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
Provincial Archives of Alberta 2
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 2
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1
Life Story (by date of death) 34
National Maritime Museum
Coins & Commemorative Medals 6
Uniforms 4
Navigational Instruments 3
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 2
Orders & Medals 1
Ships Equipment 1
Astronomical Instruments 1
Year
All 2161840 3
1869 1
1870 2
1871 1
1876 1
1879 2
1889 1
1909 2
1911 1
1912 1
1913 1
1917 3
1925 3
1926 1
1927 3
1929 10
1930 1
1931 1
1934 2
1936 59
1937 6
1938 29
1942 2
1946 1
1947 10
1948 62
1950 1
1952 2
1957 1
1969 1
1970 2
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!
