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 glimpse of New-York's great canyon, called Nassau-St., which it is proposed to "arcade" (LOC)
Taken 24 Jan 1904
The Library of Congress
American Soldiers Man a Dug-In Mortar Emplacement near St. Vith, Belgium
Taken 24 Jan 1945
The U.S. National Archives
M-4 Sherman Tanks Lined up in a Snow Covered Field, near St. Vith, Belgium
Taken 24 Jan 1945
The U.S. National Archives
Reverse Side of: Snowsuited Soldiers Walk through the Snow Covered Streets of St. Vith, Belgium (16730733)
Taken 24 Jan 1945
The U.S. National Archives
Reverse Side of: Yanks Trudge through Snow from Humpange, Belgium to St. Vith (16730736)
Taken 24 Jan 1945
The U.S. National Archives
Snowsuited Soldiers Walk through the Snow Covered Streets of St. Vith, Belgium
Taken 24 Jan 1945
The U.S. National Archives