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!
A Geometrical Plan, and West Elevation of His Majesty's Dock Yard, near Plymouth, with the Ordnance Wharfe, &c... (with key). Print. Print. A plan of the Royal Dockyard at Plymouth, surveyed and drawn by Thomas Milton with shipping by John Clevel
2 Feb 1756
National Maritime Museum
Myneer Nic Frogs Lamentation or Dutch Milk a fine Relish to English Sailors (caricature). Print
2 Feb 1781
National Maritime Museum
'Bacchus's and Cupid's Vintage'. 'Bacchus's and Cupid's Vintage' by James Godby after Friedrich Rehberg. A young Bacchus is teaching Cupid how to tread grapes in a sculpted trough? decorated with lions' heads f
2 February 1815
National Maritime Museum
Monument erected in St Pauls Cathedral to the Memory of Lord Viscount Nelson Executed by John Flaxman Esqr. R.A. Frontispiece to the European Magazine Vol.73. Print. John Flaxman’s grand monument to Admiral Nelson in St Paul’s Cathedral, in a
2 Feb 1818
National Maritime Museum
First Communication with the Natives of Prince Regents Bay, as Drawn by Iohn Sackheouse, and Presented to Capt Ross, Augt 10 1818. Isabella and Alexandra. An illustration (p.88) from ‘A voyage of Discovery in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and A
2 Feb 1819
National Maritime Museum
First communication with the Natives of Prince Regents Bay, as Drawn by John Sackhouse and presented to Capt. Ross, Augt 10, 1818. This engraving shows the Royal Navy’s first encounter with Inuit in the Arctic. John Ross explored Prince Regent&rsquo
2 February 1819
National Maritime Museum