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!
Horatio Nelson, 1758 - 1805, 1st Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White. Oval bust-length miniature of Nelson in watercolour on ivory, turned half to sitter's right but looking out at the viewer, in an oval gold suspension locket edged with 38 we
after 1801
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, 1758 - 1805, 1st Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White. This is not strictly a miniature, except in terms of small size. More accurately, it is a small stipple engraving of Nelson, head only in left profile, after Simon de Koster'
1807
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 1758-1805, 1st Viscount Nelson. Half-length facing left in rear-admiral's undress uniform, 1795-1812 pattern, wearing the St Vincent medal and the star of a KB. The empty right sleeve is pinned across and the upper part sl
1798
National Maritime Museum