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!
John Burroughs, guided by John Muir, sees in reality the dream of forty years (LOC)
Taken 11 Apr 1909
The Library of Congress
Gum vendors still selling, near the National Theater, 04/11/1912
Taken 11 Apr 1912
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service in Washington D.C., 04/11/1912
Taken 11 Apr 1912
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Wilbur H. Woodward, Western Union Messenger 236, 04/11/1912
Taken 11 Apr 1912
The U.S. National Archives
W.E.L.H. Crowther and Colin Perkins at Claremont Camp 1915
Taken 11 Apr 1915
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
[36th Infantry Division Soldiers Marching, Fort Worth]
Taken 11 Apr 1918
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Officer with wreath on HMAS AUSTRALIA I
Taken 11 Apr 1924
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
ORESTES of Liverpool at Cremorne Point, Sydney Harbour
Taken 11 Apr 1931
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
"Edison, Kern County, California. Young migratory mother, originally from Texas."
Taken 11 Apr 1940
The U.S. National Archives
Migrant Cotton Picker and Her Baby near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona
Taken 11 Apr 1940
The U.S. National Archives
20. King George V Memorial. Canberra, ACT, 1948 (2)
Taken 11 Apr 1948
Royal Australian Historical Society
Photograph of Charles Braibant, Director of the Archives of France and President of the International Council on Archives, and Wayne C. Grover, Archivist of the United States, Examining the Original T
Taken 11 Apr 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Unidentified children dressed for Easter in Tallahassee, Florida
Taken 11 Apr 1957
State Library and Archives of Florida