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!
Tartu raudteejaam rööbaste poolt vaadatuna / Tartu train station, rail side view
Taken 24 May 1888
National Archives of Estonia
Decorated arch over George street for the royal visit, Brisbane
Taken 24 May 1901
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Surviving veterans of the Civil War who rose to the rank of Major General, or higher (LOC)
Taken 24 May 1908
The Library of Congress
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander May 24 1928
Taken 24 May 1928
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Conductor Toivo Haapanen leads the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, 24.5.1945.
Taken 24 May 1945
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York) with Visitors in the Fish Room of the White House
Taken 24 May 1961
The U.S. National Archives