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!
Executives watch women AWA factory workers making radio valves, 1936, by Sam Hood
Taken some time in 1936
State Library of New South Wales collection
Helen Twelvetrees and her son Jack Woody, Sydney, 1936 / Sam Hood
Taken some time in 1936
State Library of New South Wales collection
Men and women fence at Swords Club, 1936 / photogapher Sam Hood
Taken some time in 1936
State Library of New South Wales collection
Society wedding reception (Meeks and Hordern families), Sydney, February 1936 / Sam Hood
Taken some time in Feb 1936
State Library of New South Wales collection
11 am 11 Nov 1936, Remembrance Day on the GPO clock, Sydney / photograph by Sam Hood
Taken 11 Nov 1936
State Library of New South Wales collection