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!
Winifred Helen Burtenshaw , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 21 October 1919
Lives of the First World War
Affiche adressée aux Combattants en vue des élections législative de novembre 1919, Paris, France, A 18 989
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de la Ligue de la jeune République, Paris, France, A 18 988
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de l\'Union des Intérêts Economiques pour la liberté du commerce, de l\'industrie et de l\'agriculture, Paris, France, A 18 986 S
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Affiche de l\'Union des Intérêts Economiques pour la liberté du commerce, de l\'industrie et de l\'agriculture, Paris, France, A 18 987 S
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Palais de Justice quai des Orfèvres, vu du Pont Neuf, Paris (Ier arr.), France, A 18 992
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le quai des Orfèvres vu du quai des Grands-Augustins, Paris (Ier arr.), France, A 18 990
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'Hôtel de Ville de Paris décoré de la Croix de Guerre, Paris (IVe arr.), France, A 18 993
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'Hôtel de Ville de Paris décoré de la Croix de Guerre, Paris (IVe arr.), France, A 18 994
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'Hôtel de Ville de Paris décoré de la Croix de Guerre, Paris (IVe arr.), France, A 18 995
21 octobre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Miss Winifred Helen Burtenshaw, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died as the result of an accident on duty 21 October 1919.
Died 21 October 1919
Imperial War Museum
Miss Winifred Helen Burtenshaw, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died as the result of an accident on duty 21 October 1919.
Died 21 October 1919
Imperial War Museum