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!
Ciuilis doende de Duytschen op beyde syden van den Ryn trecken, om vervaerlycker te schynen, ende oock de schepen teghen stroom op, belegert het Oudt leger. De Hollanders stormen op Houte bruggens daer onder eenighe stonden die de wallen breken, maer word
1620
National Maritime Museum
Ciuilis doet op eenen dagh bespringhen Wyck te Duerstede, Rhenen, Wageninghen ende Arnhem: maer Cerialis comende lot onset, belet het stormen, ende dryft de Hollanders inde riuiere. Ciuilis werdt ghekent ende beschoten, soo dat hy bedwonghen wordt syn pe
1620
National Maritime Museum
Ciuilis maekte hem sterck met een armade inden Ryn, meest om den Romeynen de victuali te benemen: Cerialis maeckt oock een armade ghereedt: maer soo d'eene den windt ende d'andere den stroom hadden, en konden sy niet anders doen dan met pylen n
1620
National Maritime Museum
De Duytschen ende Hollanders ouervallen by nachte de Romeynen, ende cryghen het schip van den Generael ghevanghen, meynende dat Cerialis daer in was, die dien nacht elders gheslapen hadde. Sy Schickent des morghens met noch andere schepen voor een present
1620
National Maritime Museum
Een Schip met coren gheladen blyft op een drooghte sitten; de Duytschen pooghent naer hen te trecken, soo oock de Romeynen: waer door eenen. Volcomen slagh is gheresen de Duytschen honden t'velt, ende cryghen t'schip. Ciuilis verrast de Ceulsche
1620
National Maritime Museum
Sir Thomas Love, c.1571-1627. A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to the right. Only part of the sleeves of Love’s dark metallic grey doublet can be seen under his coat, or mandilion. The lace cuffs are turned back and edged with cartwheel lace
circa 1620
National Maritime Museum
The platt of Argier & the parts adioyning wthin the view thereof Made by Robert Norton the Muster Mr of his mats fleet ther ao: di 1620 & by his own carfull & dilligent observations then not without danger. Single sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellu
1620
National Maritime Museum
A Fishing Boat in Rough Sea off a Rocky Shore. A dramatic depiction of a rough sea driving a two-masted vessel, probably a hooker, into a narrow channel between the soaring crag on the left and the rocks. The foaming water indicates the ferocity of the wa
1620s
National Maritime Museum
A Ship in a Rough Sea. In this painting, Verbeeck takes up the established subject of ships sailing off a rocky coast in a gale, which appears in both Flemish and Dutch seascapes during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Under a moderately clou
1620s
National Maritime Museum
Dutch Ships in a Rough Sea. This tiny panel depicts shipping off a rocky coast in rough weather. Five vessels are shown sailing across large, rolling waves. Four of these vessels are visible in the far background, close to the horizon, and one is shown in
late 1620s
National Maritime Museum