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!
From the Atlantic to the Pacific anglers are stirring in response to springtime's call (LOC)
Taken 9 May 1909
The Library of Congress
President Woodrow Wilson's Mother's Day Proclamation of May 9, 1914 (Presidential Proclamation 1268)., 05/09/1914 - 05/09/1914
Taken 9 May 1914
The U.S. National Archives
Welcoming crowd for Amy Johnson on her arrival in Cloncurry
Taken 9 May 1930
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea, and his touring car in front of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 May 1935 / photographer Sam Hood
Taken 9 May 1935
State Library of New South Wales collection
Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea, and his touring car in front of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 May 1935 / photographer Sam Hood
Taken 9 May 1935
State Library of New South Wales collection
Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea, and his touring car in front of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 May 1935 / photographer Sam Hood
Taken 9 May 1935
State Library of New South Wales collection
High school prize-winners, Canterbury Boys' High School. 9 May 1935, by Sam Hood
Taken 9 May 1935
State Library of New South Wales collection
Centerville, California. Grandmother of farm family awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese an . . ., 05/09/1942
Taken 9 May 1942
The U.S. National Archives