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!
HMS DRAGON, BRITISH BEACON and HMS DUNEDIN anchored off Garden Island
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
HMS HOOD near Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
HMS REPULSE possibly near Sydney Heads
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Petition Against the Proposed Child Labor Amendment, 04/09/1924
Taken 9 Apr 1924
The U.S. National Archives
Royal Navy ratings marching with the Royal Marines Band Service marching in Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Royal Navy ratings waiting to march through Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Royal Navy sailors and officers disembark from a tug at Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Royal Navy sailors and officers disembark from ferries at Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
The Royal Marines Band Service marching in Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
The Royal Marines Band Service marching in Sydney
Taken 9 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Canadian Corps veterans on Vimy Day in Edmonton, 9 April 1938
Taken 9 Apr 1938
Provincial Archives of Alberta
Canadian Corps veterans on Vimy Day in Edmonton, 9 April 1938
Taken 9 Apr 1938
Provincial Archives of Alberta
H.A. Dyde, President of the Canadian Corps, at the Edmonton War Memorial on Vimy Day, 9 April 1938
Taken 9 Apr 1938
Provincial Archives of Alberta
H.A. Dyde, President of the Canadian Corps, laying a wreath at the Edmonton War Memorial on Vimy Day, 9 April 1938
Taken 9 Apr 1938
Provincial Archives of Alberta
San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. Sixteen Years Old and the Possessor of a Labor Contractor's Button Entitling Him to Work in the Fields Alongside Adults
Taken 9 Apr 1940
The U.S. National Archives
[Texas and Pacific Railway, Diesel Fueling Facilities, Weatherford, Texas]
Taken 9 Apr 1960
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
[Texas and New Orleans, Southern Pacific, Caboose No. 325]
Taken 9 Apr 1962
SMU Libraries Digital Collections