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!
Abbildung wie die Konigin von Gross Britanien zu Portsmouth an gelangt ist den 25 May Anno 1662 [The Queen of Great Britain arriving in Portsmouth 25 May 1662] / Abbildung wie die Statt London den Konig und Konigin von Hampton Court kommendt nacher Whitha
1662
National Maritime Museum
References to the print of the Sortie made by the Garrison of Gibraltar in the morning of the 27th of Novr 1781. Hand-coloured.
25 May 1792
National Maritime Museum
The Pelican Brig, beating the French frigate Medea, into Guadaloupe, after an Action of 2 hours. Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD5506.
25 May 1797
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. St Vincent 120 Guns, During a N.W. Gale, in Lat 40o 28'N Lon 18o 0' W, March 28th 1849. Print
25 May 1849
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. St Vincent 120 Guns, During a N.W. Gale, in Lat 40o 28'N Lon. 18o 0' W, March 28th 1849. Hand-coloured.
25 May 1849
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Leander, 50 guns, appointed to convey the Royal Commissioners to the Exhibition at New York. This tinted lithograph is a portrait of the 4th rate, 50-gun Leander (1848), which was appointed to carry the Royal Commissioners to the Exhibition of the
25 May 1853
National Maritime Museum
West Cowes, Isle of Wight. Print No.2946. Vignette.; Mounted with PAD1281.
25 May 1870
National Maritime Museum