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!
Start of the Champion 22-footers race, Sydney Harbour
Taken 21 Jan 1899
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Woolloongabba Cricket Ground, 21 January, 1899
Taken 21 Jan 1899
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Lieutenant H.J.P. King outside the Officers' Mess
Taken 21 Jan 1901
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
White rock Res. & Dam. General view of borrow pit where dynamite accident occurred
Taken 21 Jan 1911
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Early 1920's Countess Markizvicz [sic], Douglas Hyde (Back Row), Harry Boland? (Front Row)
Taken 21 Jan 1922
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Photograph of Radio Broadcast for the March of Dimes with Margaret Truman and Others, 01/21/1948
Taken 21 Jan 1948
The U.S. National Archives