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!
Aborigines and stockmen on horseback in front of de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth biplane airliner G-AUHW 'Canberra' wave goodbye to Les Holden and crew, Flora Valley, Western Australia, 23 April 1929.
Taken 23 Apr 1929
National Library of Australia Commons
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, April 23, 1936
Taken 23 Apr 1936
State Library of Queensland, Australia
177. Gippsland Lakes Looking North, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, 1948
Taken 23 Apr 1948
Royal Australian Historical Society
178. Gippsland, Lakes Entrance (East), Taken from Road Lookout, Victoria, 1948
Taken 23 Apr 1948
Royal Australian Historical Society
194. Twofold Bay from 'Fairmont', Eden, NSW, 1948
Taken 23 Apr 1948
Royal Australian Historical Society