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!
Notary Form with Seal for John Karl, 08/10/1857 (Reverse)
Taken 10 Aug 1857
The U.S. National Archives
President Ulysses S. Grant's Commutation of Oscar Snow's Death Sentence - Page 4
Taken 10 Aug 1875
The U.S. National Archives
Picturesque Au Sable Chasm, near Lake Champlain, is about to be surveyed for a State Park (LOC)
Taken 10 Aug 1902
The Library of Congress
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, August 10, 1933
Taken 10 Aug 1933
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Annual ball of the Commercial Traveller's Association
Taken 10 Aug 1940
State Library of Queensland, Australia