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!
A Description of the Engagement on Lake Champlain. Text in English below image.
23 Dec 1776
National Maritime Museum
No.1. Thetis on shore near Currituck Inlet, North Carolina Dec 23rd 1794... Cleopatra at anchor near her. Thisbe and Lynx answering private signals. Signed by artist and dated.
1795
National Maritime Museum
The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson - in the moment of Victory (caricature). Gillray’s response to Nelson’s death at Trafalgar was this brilliantly ironic print showing him collapsed on the deck of the ‘Victory’, eyes rolling upward,
Published 29 December 1805
National Maritime Museum
HMS Terror in a heavy gale with a snow drift at the Entrance to the Frozen Strait 22/23 Dec 1836. Medium includes graphite and ink. See also BHC3655.
1836
National Maritime Museum