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!
Photographic postcard of a woman, possibly actress Marjorie Neil, and toy bear at a piano
Taken 26 Jul 1911
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 26 July 1928
Taken 26 Jul 1928
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Colin Jones and H. Weideman. Truth photographers in the studio, Brisbane 1946
Taken 26 Jul 1946
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Message of President Harry S. Truman nominating James V. Forrestal of New York to be Secretary of Defense, 07/26/1947
Taken 26 Jul 1947
The U.S. National Archives
Columbia County Courthouse: Lake City, Florida
Taken 26 Jul 1948
State Library and Archives of Florida