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!
Œuvre de la paroisse de l\'Aisne à Paris pour les réfugiés de l\'Aisne, permanence, 184-182 boulevard Haussmann, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 14 505
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Acting Corporal Charles Williams 13/669, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 20 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Affiche de la préparation de la jeunesse Française au service militaire, Paris, France, A 14 492 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de la préparation de la jeunesse Française au service militaire, Paris, France, A 14 493 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de l\'Office national des Pupilles de la Nation, Paris, France, A 14 491
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche d\'avis au public pour le rationnement du pain, sucre et charbon, Paris, France, A 14 494 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche d\'avis au public pour le rationnement du pain, sucre et charbon, Paris, France, A 14 495 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraques de souscription place du Trocadéro, Paris (XVIe arr.) France, A 14 498
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Baraques de souscription place du Trocadéro, Paris (XVIe arr.), France, A 14 497
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Captain Charles Gordon Kirk. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 20 July 1918 Western Front. Son of Charles Kirk, of Sleaford, Lincs.
Died 20 July 1918
Imperial War Museum
Company Serjeant Major Thomas Edward Orton 8, Welsh Guards
Died 20 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Frank Bramall 201448, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 20 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Coupole de la crypte de Sainte-Hélène dans le Saint Sépulcre, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 15 672
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Coupole de l\'Église Sainte Hélène, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 15 668
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La nation Serbe en France, 61bis boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris (Ve arr.), France, A 14 496
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La statue de Washington et le musée Guimet place d\'Iéna, au fond la rue Boissière, Paris (XVIe arr.), France, A 14 499 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La statue de Washington et le musée Guimet place d\'Iéna, au fond la rue Boissière, Paris (XVIe arr.), France, A 14 500 S
20 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Leading Seaman Benjamin Cogan Edwards 238694, Royal Navy
Died 20 July 1918
Lives of the First World War