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!
Forest Scene on the Tobihanna; Alleghany Mountains.
Taken 1 Jan 1839
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Remains of the Ancient Chersonese, near Sebastopol.
Taken 1 Jan 1856
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Balancing rock in the large group of rocks called the Tower of London
Taken 1 Jan 1895
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Burned dormitory, State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington
Taken 1 Jan 1897
UW Digital Collections
Crossing frozen Crater Lake with sleds outfitted with sails, British Columbia
Taken 1 Jan 1898
UW Digital Collections
Commonwealth Procession outside the Treasury building in Queen Street
Taken 1 Jan 1901
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Picnic group on Federation Day at Bunker Creek above Whipstick Station, White Cliffs, NSW, 1 January 1901, by an unknown photographer.
Taken 1 Jan 1901
State Library of New South Wales collection
Soldiers preparing to fire the cannons at a military display in the Domain
Taken 1 Jan 1901
State Library of Queensland, Australia
A row of spherical barrage balloons used for suspending aerial nets
Taken 1 Jan 1918
Australian War Memorial collection
A man is recording sound effects, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A man playing the Kantele in front of a broadcast van, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Broadcast van and a reindeer, Inari, Lapland, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Engineer Eero Frantsila beside Telefunken transmission equipment in Lahti radio station, 1930's.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Martti Jukola reporting from a sports event, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Office in the Radio House in Fabianinkatu, Helsinki, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
President Kyösti Kallio speaking on the radio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio announcer Ebba Jakobson-Lilius in a continuity unit, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm interviewing a man fixing a car, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Reporter and announcer Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erkki Linko in the studio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Photograph of the National Archives Building Entrance on Constitution Avenue, 01/01/1936
Taken 1 Jan 1936
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of the National Archives Building with the United States Capitol in the Background, 01/01/1936
Taken 1 Jan 1936
The U.S. National Archives
"Give this to the youngest boy who sells papers in Sydney" ; A Merrie Xmas and a Happy New Year, Nellie Melba, 1908-1909
Taken 1 Jan 1937
State Library of New South Wales collection
Highland Gathering, New Year's Day, Sydney Showground, 1 January 1937 / photographer Sam Hood
Taken 1 Jan 1937
State Library of New South Wales collection
Parts of the 10 kW transmitter destined for Vaasa broadcasting station are loaded in the courtyard of Fabianinkatu radio house, ca. 1937.
Taken 1 Jan 1937
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
An employee is finishing the power gain field destined for Sortavala broadcasting station in Yleisradio's workshop, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Control room and radio studio in Fabianinkatu headquarters of Yleisradio, ca 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Two mechanics manufacturing a 1 kW medium waves transmitter in Yleisradio's workshop, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Yleisradio's service workshop in Fabianinkatu, ca. 1938.
Taken 1 Jan 1938
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A low voltage board destined for Turku broadcasting station in the courtyard of Fabianinkatu radio house, ca. 1939.
Taken 1 Jan 1939
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Rectifier for the Olympia 40/3 distributing amplifier made for the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games, ca. 1940.
Taken 1 Jan 1940
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
The Syncro-Clock time keeper, Yleisradio's driving clock and a kind of radio that received the time signal from the German hydrological institute's chronometer. A radio set which controlled several
Taken 1 Jan 1945
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Underwater New Year’s at Rainbow Springs: Rainbow Springs, Florida
Taken 1 Jan 1953
State Library and Archives of Florida
[Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, Diesel Electric Passenger Locomotive No. 14, in Front of the Hotel Dallas Building]
Taken 1 Jan 1959
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
[Fort Worth & Denver City, Diesel Electric Passenger Locomotive No. 9980A]
Taken 1 Jan 1959
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
[Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Diesel Electric Passenger Locomotive No. 54A]
Taken 1 Jan 1959
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Sharon Conrad swimming among various citrus fruits
Taken 1 Jan 1962
State Library and Archives of Florida
President John F. Kennedy enjoying the Orange Bowl game: Miami, Florida
Taken 1 Jan 1963
State Library and Archives of Florida