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!
Bement & Dougherty, Industrial Works, Machinists' Tools
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Evans, Gardner & Co., Importers & Jobbers Of Dry Goods
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
John Dwight & Co's Super-Carb. Soda.; M.W. Robinson, Sole Agent, Smith & Wesson's Revolvers.
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Lane & Bodley, Stationery & Portable Steam Engines & Mill Machinery
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
National Line. Steamers, Weekly, between New York & Liverpool, calling at Queenstown
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Poole & Hunt, Founders & Machinists, Established 1851.
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
St. Charles Hotel, Pittsburg., Penn'a; Merchants Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections