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!
Photographs of William H. Taft, Secretary of War, at different stages in his career. (LOC)
Taken 7 Jul 1907
The Library of Congress
The winner of the duck hunt at the New Zealand Division water sports, World War I, 7 Jul 1917
Taken 7 Jul 1917
National Library NZ on The Commons
Locomotive aboard the M.S. Belray at Pinkenba Wharf, Brisbane, Queensland, 7 July 1927
Taken 7 Jul 1927
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, July 7, 1932
Taken 7 Jul 1932
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Skiing, 7 July 1934 / photographer Sam Hood
Taken 7 Jul 1934
State Library of New South Wales collection
Silver City Comet: diesel train on trial run from Sydney to Moss Vale, 1937
Taken 7 Jul 1937
State Library of New South Wales collection
[Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, Locomotive No. 1662 with Tender]
Taken 7 Jul 1946
SMU Libraries Digital Collections