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Source
All 1492American Air Museum
American Air Museum 4
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 789
Sjöhistoriska museet 207
Kulturarv Västernorrland 88
Bohusläns museum 53
Vänersborgs museum 43
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 25
Miliseum 18
Marinmuseum 11
Riksantikvarieämbetet 11
Tekniska museet 10
Vasamuseet 5
Flygvapenmuseum 4
Örebro läns museum 4
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 3
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 2
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 2
Historisch Museum Ede 1
Flickr Commons
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 22
State Library and Archives of Florida 20
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 14
Provincial Archives of Alberta 10
NASA on The Commons 9
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 7
The U.S. National Archives 6
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 5
MissouriStateArchives 5
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 2
Australian War Memorial collection 2
Swedish National Heritage Board 2
Deseronto Archives 1
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 1
Imperial War Museums
Wright Robert 12
Other 2
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 1
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 1
Life Story (by date of death) 59
National Maritime Museum
Coins & Commemorative Medals 10
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 8
Uniforms 4
Ship Models 3
Oil Paintings 1
Relics 1
Orders & Medals 1
Astronomical Instruments 1
Ceramics 1
Navigational Instruments 1
Year
All 10381839 6
1842 36
1845 1
1846 1
1847 1
1848 1
1850 2
1855 14
1856 37
1861 5
1862 4
1863 3
1864 7
1865 5
1867 2
1868 2
1869 22
1870 1
1871 4
1872 5
1873 27
1875 1
1877 7
1878 1
1880 1
1881 2
1883 22
1884 5
1885 2
1887 4
1892 6
1893 21
1894 1
1896 7
1897 9
1898 3
1899 3
1900 7
1901 1
1902 26
1903 9
1904 21
1905 24
1906 12
1907 13
1908 19
1909 14
1910 35
1911 16
1912 58
1913 7
1914 19
1915 23
1916 21
1917 5
1918 44
1919 2
1920 2
1921 4
1922 2
1927 3
1930 3
1933 1
1934 1
1936 4
1937 24
1938 27
1939 26
1940 24
1941 5
1942 2
1943 7
1944 19
1945 17
1946 6
1947 8
1948 5
1949 5
1950 5
1951 10
1952 5
1953 2
1955 5
1956 8
1957 4
1958 17
1959 14
1960 24
1961 30
1962 10
1963 4
1964 1
1965 13
1966 6
1967 3
1968 16
1969 8
1970 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!
