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!
Able Seaman Louis Spencer Drawbridge J.3976. (CH), H.M.S. Juno
Died 26 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Baraques de souscription à côté de la statue de Strasbourg, place de la Concorde, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 14 534 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Captain Francis Bennett Goldney. Unit: Honourable Assistant British Military Attache in Paris and Staff, Special List. Death: 26 July 1918, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Maitland MacIntosh , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Cinéma Pigalle au 11 place Pigalle, Paris (IXe arr.), France, A 14 543
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Dortoir des Permissionnaires dans une école publique de garçons aux 23-25 rue des Recollets, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 14 538 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Dortoir des Permissionnaires dans une école publique de garçons aux 23-25 rue des Recollets, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 14 539 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Jardin de Gethsémani, au pied du Mont des Oliviers, lieu de l\'agonie et de l\'arrestation de Jésus, Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 15 726
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Buffet du Soldat à la gare de l\'Est, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 14 536 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Buffet du Soldat à la gare de l\'Est, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 14 537 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Foyer du Soldat à la gare de l\'Est, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 14 535
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Moulin-Rouge boulevard de Clichy et publicité pour Luna Park, Paris (XVIIIe arr.), France, A 14 540 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le Moulin-Rouge boulevard de Clichy et publicité pour Luna Park, Paris (XVIIIe arr.), France, A 14 541 S
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'Araignée au 100 Boulevard de Clichy, actuel théâtre des Deux-Ânes, Paris (XVIIIe arr.), France, A 14 542
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama de Jérusalem depuis le mont des Oliviers, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 15 724
26 juillet 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Percy Archer 13829, British West Indies Regiment
Died 26 July 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Wallace Cowling 131415, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 26 July 1918
Lives of the First World War