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!
Message of President James A. Garfield nominating James G. Blaine to be Secretary of State, 03/04/1881
Taken 4 Mar 1881
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Grover Cleveland nominating Thomas F. Bayard to be Secretary of State, 03/04/1885
Taken 4 Mar 1885
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Benjamin Harrison nominating William Windom to be Secretary of the Treasury, 03/04/1889
Taken 4 Mar 1889
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President William McKinley nominating John Sherman to be Secretary of State, 03/04/1897
Taken 4 Mar 1897
The U.S. National Archives
A common case of "team work." Smaller boy, Joseph Bishop, goes into saloons and sells his last paper...
Taken 4 Mar 1909
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Franklin Roosevelt nominating Frances Perkins of New York to be Secretary of Labor, 03/04/1933
Taken 4 Mar 1933
The U.S. National Archives