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!
'Sir Joseph Banks Bt., President...' (1743-1820). This print, from West's oil portrait of about 1773 now in the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, originally bore just the simple title 'Mr Banks' when first issued in that year. This l
1 May 1788
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Cove and Tents of the English at Oroolong Published by G. Nichol, for Capt. Henry Wilson, as the Act directs May 1st 1788. Print
1 May 1788
National Maritime Museum
British East Indiamen, Anchoring in Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope (possibly Ocean 1788). Print
1 May 1788
National Maritime Museum