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 View of the First Bridge at Paddington, and the Accommodation Barge going down the Grand Junction Canal to Uxbridge. Plate 166. Technique includes etching.
12 Sep 1801
National Maritime Museum
William Money Esqr. A Director of the Honorable United East India Company And Elder Brother of the Corporation of Trinity House. Print. William Money (died 1796) was Captain of several East Indiamen and later a Director of the East India Company. Like man
12 Sep 1801
National Maritime Museum
Proposed flywheel by G. L. Harries, Master RN. No scale. Letter of explanation with illustration showing two methods of strengthening paddle wheels, proposed by G. L. Harries [Master, RN, Seniority, 26 October 1824, late of HMS Surly, a 10-gun Cutter].
12 September 1831
National Maritime Museum