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!
Scenes along the mule trail to Bogota, the capital city of Colombia (LOC)
Taken 13 Dec 1903
The Library of Congress
Page 21 of the Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander, 13 December, 1919
Taken 13 Dec 1919
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 13 December 1928
Taken 13 Dec 1928
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Cheering for the team at the Valley baths, Brisbane, December 1943
Taken 13 Dec 1943
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Men with captured alligator - Weeki Wachee Spring
Taken 13 Dec 1948
State Library and Archives of Florida
Men with captured alligator: Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida
Taken 13 Dec 1948
State Library and Archives of Florida
Photograph of Mr. Arthur Kimberly, Chief of the Preservation Service at the National Archives, Explaining Preservation Work to be Done on Some of New York State's Most Treasured Documents Soon to be E
Taken 13 Dec 1948
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Loading Armored Personnel Carrier with the Documents at the Library of Congress
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Loading Armored Personnel Carrier with the Documents at the Library of Congress
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Procession Making Ready to Leave the Library of Congress with Documents for Transfer to the National Archives
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Removing the Documents Prior to Transfer to National Archives
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Removing the Documents Prior to Transfer to National Archives
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of Removing the Documents Prior to Transfer to National Archives
Taken 13 Dec 1952
The U.S. National Archives