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!
AIRCRAFT AND BALLOONS USED BY SOME OF THE AIR PIONEERS WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY WITH SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY.
11 December 1913
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Percy Whelan. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 11 December 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 11 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private George Waylen Dixon 6394. Unit: B Company, 15th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 11 December 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private George Waylen Dixon 6394. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 11 December 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Harcus was born in Orkney, Scotland in 1881 and was a fluent speaker of Gaelic. He emigrated to Australia in 1907 and, after spending a year in New Zealand, settled in Sydney where he qualified as a barrister in 1912. During this time, he also ser
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Frederick Maddocks 957. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 December 1915 Egypt & Palestine
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Collis 14153. Unit: "A" Company, 9th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 11 December 1915, missing in action, Macedonia.
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
11 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Harold Herbert Lawrence 980. Unit: C Coy, 32nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 December 1916 At Etaples Western Front
Died 11 December 1916
Imperial War Museum