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!
Affiche de l\'emprunt national, Banque nationale de Crédit, Paris, France, A 15 024 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de l\'emprunt national, Banque nationale de Crédit, Paris, France, A 15 025
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Frank Henry Burkitt 102944, Royal Air Force
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Frank Henry Burkitt 402656,
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 114 avenue des Champs-Elysées (Œuvre des prisonniers de guerre monténégrins et Comité d\'assistance à la croix rouge roumaine), à l\'angle de la rue Wa
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 114 avenue des Champs-Elysées (Œuvre des prisonniers de guerre monténégrins et Comité d\'assistance à la croix rouge roumaine), à l\'angle de la rue Wa
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 114 avenue des Champs-Elysées (Œuvre des prisonniers de guerre monténégrins), à l\'angle de la rue Washington, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 016
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 114 avenue des Champs-Elysées (Œuvre des prisonniers de guerre monténégrins), à l\'angle de la rue Washington, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 017
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 152 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 022 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 152 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 023 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 74 avenue des Champs-Elysées (hôtel Clarige), Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 014 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 74 avenue des Champs-Elysées (hôtel Clarige), Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 015 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 74 avenue des Champs-Elysées (hôtel Clarige), Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 020 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraque de l\'emprunt et pavoisements au 74 avenue des Champs-Elysées (hôtel Clarige), Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 15 021 S
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Captain Francis Edwin Smith , Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Henry Thornbury Fox Russell , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Driver William E Lambert T4/143163, Army Service Corps
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Joiner 3rd Class Francis Charles John Williams M13292, HMS Prince Eugene
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Madame Adrien Kahn, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 970
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Major Reginald Oscar Schwarz , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Monsieur Victor Bourgeois, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 964
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Victor Bourgeois, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 967
18 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private George Henry Cosnett 55034, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alan Stuart Hughes. Unit: 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 18 November 1918, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 18 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alfred Newsam Ella 337. Unit: 180th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 18 November 1918, Macedonia. Burried at the Mikra Cemetery.
Died 18 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Winifred Haviland Irwin , Territorial Force Nursing Service
Died 18 November 1918
Lives of the First World War