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!
Algernoun Earle of Northumberland, Lord of the Honors of Cockermouth...[Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland]. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below image.
1640
National Maritime Museum
Prince of Denmark's Yacht (1785) [Kronprindsens Lystfregat]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with stern quarter and broadside window decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth for building a yacht for the Prince Royal of Denmark a
10 January 1785
National Maritime Museum
The Funeral Car on which the body of our late Vice Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson was conveyed from the Admiralty to St Paul's Cathedral for Interment, in one of the greatet processions that ever was beheld, on the 9th Jany 1806. Hand-coloured. Box
10 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
The Funeral Car on which the Body of our late Vice Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson was conveyed from the Admiralty to St Paul's Cathedral... 9 Jany 1806. Hand-coloured.; No.42.
10 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Insolent (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile (one waterline marked) with scroll figurehead for the Insolent (captured 1798), a captured French 'corvette-cannoniere', as fitted as a 12-gun brig sloop at Plymouth Dockya
10 January 1810
National Maritime Museum
Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the fore & aft platforms with modifications for building Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832), both 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloops, at Plymouth Dockyard. Ini
10th January 1820
National Maritime Museum
Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the quarter deck and forecastle for building Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832), both 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloops, at Plymouth Dockyard. The plan also has a
10th January 1820
National Maritime Museum
Strike while the iron's hot (or The consequence of not answering a bell). Caricature etching with publisher's colouring of an African servant being threatened with a hot poker after failing to bring his master's tea on time.
The work was d
10 January 1822
National Maritime Museum
The yacht 'Falcon' off Spithead with the Royal Yacht Squadron. Inscribed: “The Right Honourable Lord Yarborough's Yacht, the ‘Falcon’ of 351 tons. Off Spithead with the Royal Yacht Squadron, on their Voyage to Cherbourg.&n
10 Jan 1835
National Maritime Museum
Honoratiss: D'Algernon Percy Com. Northumberland [Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland]. Text in German on reverse.
1844
National Maritime Museum
Bermuda (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and midship framing, longitudinal half-breadth, and midship section proposed (and approved) for building Bermuda (1848), a 3-gun Schoon
10 January 1846
National Maritime Museum
Bermuda (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck, with some pencil alterations, for Bermuda (1848), a 3-gun Schonner to be built at Bermuda.
Signed by William Symonds [Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1848].
10 January 1846
National Maritime Museum
Bermuda (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with later design alterations, for Bermuda (1848), a 3-gun Schooner to be built at Bermuda.
10 January 1846
National Maritime Museum
L'Amiral Parceval Deschenes Commandant de l'escadre Francaise de la Baltique. Plate No 103.
10 Jan 1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the 10th International Navigation Congress, 1905. Medal commemorating the 10th International Navigation Congress, 1905. Obverse: Busts (right to left) of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1415) conjoined fac
1905
National Maritime Museum
Fort de France, Martinique, from the 'Suzanne'. A sketch showing the profile of the coastline of Fort de France, Martinique. Everett has captured the intensity of the sunset over the mountains in the centre of the image. He concentrates on the r
10 January 1929
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Argentinian Training Cruiser 'La Argentina' 10th voyage, 1971. Case for the medal commemorating the Argentinian Training Cruiser 'La Argentina' 10th voyage, 1971
1971
National Maritime Museum