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!
Mt. Pelee: [View of buildings and rubble after eruption of Mt. Pelee on Martinique]
Taken some time in 1902
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The great Dam across the Nile at Assuan - the most gigantic masonry of modern times - Egypt.
Taken some time in 1902
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The silent City of Death, entombing 30,000 Victims of Mt. Pelee's eruption - St. Pierre (looking south), Martinique.
Taken some time in 1902
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[Wilson Building Construction, Intersection of North Ervay and Elm Street]
Taken some time in 1902
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Souvenir 12 Annual Reunion, United Confederate Veterans. April 22 to 25, 1902. Dallas Texas.
Taken some time in May 1902
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El Ministro de la Guerra, su Estado Mayor y los Senores agregados militares a las legaciones extranjeras.
Taken 5 May 1902
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'The path of national greatness never is easy or smooth' - President Roosevelt, Nahant, Mass.
Taken 25 Aug 1902
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[President Theodore Roosevelt Delivering a Speech in Bellows Falls, Vermont]
Taken 1 Sep 1902
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