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!
‘Indians slaughtering the English near Jamestown’. In stark contrast to the common depiction of Native Americans as ‘Noble Savages’, this print, from Gottfried’s 'Newe Welt und americanische Historien', is a scene o
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National Maritime Museum
A chart of the voyage of Willem Schouten around Cape Horn, 1616. Text in German on reverse.
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National Maritime Museum
Andeutung wie die Spanischen schiff in Callao de Linia Verbrandt worden. Technique includes etching.; Text in German on reverse.
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National Maritime Museum
Busy wharf scene with monument in the port of Leghorn. Text in Latin below image.
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National Maritime Museum
Christopher Columbus landing in 1492. Bahamas (Watling Island). Text in German on reverse.
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National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the building of the thirty-eight gun ship 'Hercules', 1655. Counter commemorating the building of the thirty-eight-gun ship 'Hercules', 1655. Obverse: Bust of Admiral César, Duc de Vendôme (1594-1665)
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National Maritime Museum
Ignatii Iones Mag: Brit: Architecti Generalis Vera Effigies. Portrait of Inigo Jones by Hollar after a painting by Van Dyck (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Inigo Jones was celebrated as a designer of entertainments for the courts of James I
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National Maritime Museum
Ignatii Iones Mag: Brit: Architecti Generalis Vera Effigies. Portrait of Inigo Jones by Hollar after a painting by Van Dyck (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Inigo Jones was celebrated as a designer of entertainments for the courts of James I
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National Maritime Museum
Ignatii Iones Mag: Brit: Architecti Generalis Vera Effigies. Portrait of Inigo Jones by Hollar after a painting by Van Dyck (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Inigo Jones was celebrated as a designer of entertainments for the courts of James I
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National Maritime Museum
Ins: Macjan and Ins: Baetjan with detail of town. Text in German above image and on reverse.; Pages 479 and 480.
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National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Battle of Lowestoft, 1665. Medal commemorating the Battle of Lowestoft, 1665. Obverse: The King's bust (right), laureate, hair short, mantle round shoulders. Legend: 'CAROLVS . SECVNDVS . D . G . MAG . BRI . FRAN . ET . H
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National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of towns in Castile. Medal commemorating the capture of towns in Castile. Obverse: Youthful head of King Louis XIV with long hair (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS XIIII . REX CHRISTIANISS.' Reverse: A trophy of antique
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National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the inauguration of the City Hall of Amsterdam, 1655. Medal commemorating the inauguration of the City Hall of Amsterdam, 1655. Obverse: View of the city hall, Amsterdam, Amphion playing the lyre and figures in foreground, Mercury fly
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National Maritime Museum
Ships Wrecked on a Rocky Shore. A depiction of a stormy sea with several ships heading for the rocks. A coastline is shown in the distance on the right together with outcrops of rock and a rock arch on the shore in the foreground. Although the ship on the
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National Maritime Museum
Tafelein Anzeigend den weg wie die Hollanditche Flotta von dem Hafen zu Callao, gefchiffet Nordenwarts biss hinden die Insel Piscadores; Verzeichnuss, wie die... Piscadores gelegen haben. Technique includes etching.; Text in German on reverse.
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National Maritime Museum