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!
The publique proceeding of the Queenes Matie of Greate Britaine through ye Citty of Lisbone ye 20th day of Aprill 1662 (Catherine of Braganza). The second of a series of 7 prints [PAH4098-PAH4104] showing the progress of the Infanta Catherine of Braganza
1662
National Maritime Museum
'Greenwich Park, with the Royal Observatory, on Easter Monday'. This is a well-known image of Greenwich at the time of its Easter Fair, which filled the streets of the town until the parish authorities abolished it in 1857 as deleterious to good
20 Apr 1804
National Maritime Museum
Hardy (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for Hardy (1804), a 12-gun Brig building at Wearmouth, Sunderland by Mr Roxby.
Signed by John Henlsow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
Dated: 20 April 1804
National Maritime Museum
Mary Anne Talbot, Who served Several Years in His Majesty's Service by Sea & Land in the Name of John Taylor. Aged 26. Print
20 Apr 1804
National Maritime Museum
Admiral, Sir J. T. Duckworth's Victory over, and Signal Defeat, of the French Fleet, in the Bay of St Domingo London Gazette Extraordinary Admiralty-Office, March 23, 1806. Technique includes etching.
20 Apr 1806
National Maritime Museum
His Most Gracious Majesty, George the Third. Engraved by H R Cook from an Original Painting for Giffords History of the War. Print
20 Apr 1815
National Maritime Museum
To His most Gracious Majesty King William the 4th, This Plate representing a View of the Island of St Helena, from a Painting in His Majesty's possession...is...inscribed.... Hand-coloured.
20 Apr 1832
National Maritime Museum
To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria this Print The Signing and Sealing of the Treaty of Nanking...(signed on board H.M.S. Cornwallis 29 August 1842). Mezzotint in wooden frame. Hand-coloured. Medium includes gum arabic.
20 April 1846
National Maritime Museum
The Bianca Schooner Yacht. R.Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Stored in mount with PAD6544.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum
The Sapphire (M. Gibson Esqre) R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD6562.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum