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!
Pumbajaam Sangaste raudteejaamas / Pumping station at the Sangaste train station
Taken 3 Jun 1889
National Archives of Estonia
Scenes at the Chicago stockyards and packing houses, now under general suspicion by the people of America (LOC)
Taken 3 Jun 1906
The Library of Congress
Spectators watching a rugby game between Wellington and Great Britain at Athletic Park, Wellington, Tuesday 3 June 1930
Taken 3 Jun 1930
National Library NZ on The Commons
Photograph of Workers Unloading Veteran's Bureau Records, 06/03/1936
Taken 3 Jun 1936
The U.S. National Archives
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, June 3, 1937
Taken 3 Jun 1937
State Library of Queensland, Australia
U.S. vs. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg and Martin Sobell, 06/03/1945, Page 1/2
Taken 3 Jun 1945
The U.S. National Archives