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 Lads of the Ocean, Sung with the Greatest Applause by Mr Taylor, of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
22 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
Study of hay barns at Loudwater, 1816. No. 42 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the lower left 'at Loudwater/ july 22nd – 1816}.'
Loudwater is a village in Hertfordshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire. It is situated on th
22 July 1816
National Maritime Museum
1st cutter. 22 July 1848. Boats from HMS Rattlesnake Surveying Co. New Guinea. Heightened with white.
1848
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Scene at Teignmouth, with a figure looking out to sea leaning up against a beacon; (Verso) a rugged landscape with a waterfall and pencil sketches of a figure sitting by boulders and a three-decker flagship. No. 4 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Re
22 July 1850
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) The 'Ville de Paris', French flag ship, Besika Bay, 22 July 1853: (verso) The French fleet joining the English in Besika Bay, 14 June 1853. No. 33 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed 'Ville de Paris Flag ship, Besika Bay
June - July 1853
National Maritime Museum