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!
'Raisonnable' (1768) [Alternative spelling: Raisonable]. Scale: 1:48. A ship plan showing the inboard profile for 'Raisonnable' (1768), a 64-gun Third Rate two-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of
21 January 1767
National Maritime Museum
The Honble East India Company's Ship, General Goddard.... with His Majesty's Ship Sceptre and Swallow Packet Capturing seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena, on the 14th of June 1795. Print.
21 Jan 1797
National Maritime Museum
Dodgson's Double Headed Pump as fitted to Janus (1796). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing a plan view, and side and front elevations of Dodgson's Double Headed pump, as fitted to Janus (1796), a captured Dutch Frigate, fitted as a 32 gun, Fifth Rate F
21 January 1799
National Maritime Museum
This Shallop, Which brought the Body of the ever to be lamented Lord Nelson From Greenwich to Whitehall Stairs, on the 8th of January, 1806, in one of the greatest Aquatic Processions that ever was beheld on the River Thames, is upwards of one hundred yea
21 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum