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!
The South-West Prospect of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk. Text in English below image.
7 Jan 1741
National Maritime Museum
William Carnegie (1756-1831), 7th Earl of Northesk. (Updated September 2014) Carnegie, a younger son of the admiral sixth Earl of Northesk, entered the Navy in 1771 and became a captain in 1782. From 1788, after the death of his elder brothers, he was sty
1805
National Maritime Museum
Janiero Jan 7 1828 with fighting vessel approaching. Bound with PAF0222-PAF0224, PAF0226-PAF0251.
7 Jan 1828
National Maritime Museum
Hart (fl.1836). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the sail plan for the Hart (fl.1836), a Tender. The plan includes a table of Yard and Mast dimensions. Signed J. Peck [Master Shipwright].
7 January 1836
National Maritime Museum
'Plain of Santiago, Chile, from the Cuesta del Prado, Jany 7th 1851'. No. 46 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fanshawe was at Valparaiso over the winter of 1851, en
7 January 1851
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Barge. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a 14-oared 32 ft Barge. Annotation dated October 1852, listing the dockyards to which copied were sent.
Originally dated: 7 January 1851, later amended to 1853
National Maritime Museum
25 ft lifeboat Cutter. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan with buoyancy tank, sheer lines with inboard detail, deck plan with buoyancy tanks for a 25 ft lifeboat Cutter, prposed by Admiral Elliott. Annotation on reverse states in red ink: "Not
Dated: 7 January 1865
National Maritime Museum
'Julia'. A sketch of Julia Mary Herschel by her sister Matilda Rose Herschel.
Drawing lessons formed an essential part of the education of any upper middle class Victorian girl, even those such as the Herschels whose parents valued and encourag
7 January 1866
National Maritime Museum
James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope (1880-1967). A three-quarter-length, full-face portrait showing Stanhope seated to the left with his hands on his lap wearing a black suit and black striped tie with pin. The painting is signed: ‘James Gunn&
1946
National Maritime Museum