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!
An old Roman garden transferred to Philadelphia, despite many difficulties, by J. H. A. Klauder (LOC)
Taken 4 Oct 1903
The Library of Congress
[President Theodore Roosevelt Approaching Memphis, Tennessee on the USS Mississippi]
Taken 4 Oct 1907
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
[President Theodore Roosevelt at Memphis, Tennessee]
Taken 4 Oct 1907
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
HMAS AUSTRALIA I outlined with lights
Taken 4 Oct 1913
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
A tank loaded with wooden bridging material ... stranded in a trench in the Hindenburg Line, Belley Wood, near Villeret
Taken 4 Oct 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Riviera section after the 1926 hurricane: Coral Gables, Florida
Taken 4 Oct 1926
State Library and Archives of Florida