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!
A West Indiaman in Cox & Curlin's yard Limehouse. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'A West Indiaman in Cox & Curlin's yard Limehouse'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist.
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
Blackwall Reach with the Columbus in the distance. Print from part two of Moses 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'Blackwall Reach with the ''Columbus'' in the distance'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. A
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
Limehouse. Print from part two of Moses 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'Limehouse'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. A schooner drawn up on the Limehouse foreshore.
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
Limehouse. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'Limehouse'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. The view appears to be from the south bank of the Thames with a West Indiaman or vessel of similar s
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
London Docks. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping' entitled 'London Docks'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. A timber wharf in the London Docks, adjacent to a lock entrance.
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
London Docks. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'London Docks'. Signed, inscribed and dated by artist. This appears to be near the dock entrance and possibly looking across to the point on the far left
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
London Docks. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'London Docks'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist.
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
London Docks. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'London Docks'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. The baulks on the wharf may be timber, though very large. The darkly dressed figure in back vi
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
London Docks. Print from part two of Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'London Docks'. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist. The vessels on the left are brigs, with larger ships to the right.
1 March 1825
National Maritime Museum
Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent', 1 March 1825: catching fire. One of a pair of paintings, showing the East Indiaman ‘Kent’ catching fire on 1 March 1825, see also BHC2273. The ship was owned by Stewart Marjoribanks and came into ser
1826
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. A West Indiaman in Cox & Curlin's Yard Limehouse. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Blackwall Reach with the Columbus in the Distance. Signed by artist: see PAD7904, another copy, for notes.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Blackwall Reach with the Columbus in the Distance. Signed by artist; see PAD7904, another copy, for notes.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Limehouse. A sketch of shipping at Limehouse by the highly skilled marine painter and engraver Henry Moses (1782-1870). The sketch shows a sailing ship moored at Limehouse with rowing boats a
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Limehouse. Print
Shipping at Limehouse, one of the etchings in Henry Moses's 'Sketches of Shipping' series.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Limehouse. Signed by artist.
A sailing ship is being unloaded at pier with cranes on. A sailing barge is on the river. In the foreground a rowing boat and anchor are visible on the shore. Si
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
Sketches of shipping in London Docks, one of the etchings in Henry Moses's 'Sketches of Shipping' series. The London Docks opened in Wapping in
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
Vessels berthed in the London Docks at Wapping, one of the etchings in Henry Moses's 'Sketches of Shipping' series.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. The London Docks are depicted by the British artist Henry Moses (c.1782 - 1870). In the 19th century the London Docks were a thriving centre of commercial and industrial activit
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. The London Docks, depicted by the British artist Henry Moses (c. 1782 - 1870). The London Docks were developed over a century and a half and handled more traffic than anywhere e
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. The warehouses at London Docks held 220,000 tons of goods and the vaults held 60,000 pipes of wine which belonged to the Wine Merchants of London. A pipe was a cask of wine cont
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Vessels off the Tower. Print
A variety of sailing ships, barges and rowing boats in the Upper Pool near the Tower of London, one of Henry Moses' series 'Sketches of shipping' (
1 Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum