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!
. Beech chair with acane seat and back, and an H stretcher. It has turned baluster legs and supports with cudely carved cherubs on the top rail and stretcher. Numbered 14 on a brass tag.
1670
National Maritime Museum
. Portable horizontal dial for latitude 49° North. The dial-plate is oval shaped. On the obverse side is an hour scale depicted on a scroll. The dial is marked 'pour 49 deg' (for 49 degrees) and features a centrally placed rose decoration. T
1670
National Maritime Museum
Aethiopia superior vel interior vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Joannis Imperior.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:2 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated map. Contents Note: The title cartouche shows a blindfolded white female figure, flanked by a mo
1670
National Maritime Museum
Africae accurata tabula ex officina Jacobum Meursium. Single sheet. Engr. Contents Note: Title cartouche with African figures, dedication cartouche with sea sprites. Land decorated with animals; sea with ships, whales and flying fish.
This version, with t
1670
National Maritime Museum
Counter depicting Admiral Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois (1667-1683) in childhood. Counter depicting Admiral Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois (1667-1683) in childhood. Obverse: Head of Admiral de Vermandois as a child (right). Legend: '
1670
National Maritime Museum
Counter depicting Admiral Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois (1667-1683) in childhood. Counter depicting Admiral Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois (1667-1683) in childhood. Obverse: Head of Admiral de Vermandois as a child (right). Legend: 'LO
1670
National Maritime Museum
Italianate harbour scene with the monument of Ferdinand I de’ Medici at Leghorn. A romantic evocation of a Mediterranean port scene which alludes to Leghorn (Livorno), Italy. Two large ships are anchored at the quay of an Italianate harbour. The lef
1670
National Maritime Museum
Japanese pleasure boat, 1611. Text in English below image and on reverse.; Pages 87 and 88.
1670
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating naval forces prepared, 1670. Medal commemorating naval forces prepared, 1670. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS XIIII . REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Port broadside view of a three-ma
1670
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the enrollment of sixty thousand seamen. Medal commemorating the enrollment of sixty thousand seamen. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.
1670
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the prepared naval forces. Medal commemorating the prepared naval forces. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS XIIII . REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Port broadside view of a three-masted
1670
National Maritime Museum
Net, basket and line fishing in Japan, ca.1665 (on reverse). Text in English and on reverse.; Pages 73 and 74.
1670
National Maritime Museum
Part of Tangier being what comprehends ye new works, March 1670.. Bound sheet. Ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Cartographic Note: No orientation. High water line and rock ledge marked. Scale in feet. Contents Note: Includes the new pier and harbour.
From Volum
1670
National Maritime Museum
Part of Tangier from above [sic], without the Water-gate. Technique includes engraving.
1670
National Maritime Museum
Part of Tangier from above, without the Water-gate. Technique includes engraving.
1670
National Maritime Museum
Regna Congo et Angola. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:4 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for lat & long. Scale in German miles. Contents Note: Sea decorated with ships. Land decorated with animals. Cartouche with Africans and Eur
1670
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch settlement in India viewed from the land. This painting, which is one of a pair, shows a busy Dutch East Indies factory port at the height of its success in the mid-seventeenth century. We, the viewers, look along the shoreline to the town beyond.
1670s
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch settlement in India. This painting is one of a pair of grisailles (BHC1934) in which Backhuysen depicted a bustling Indian port. The image captures a busy Dutch East Indies factory port at the height of its success in the mid-seventeenth century.
1670s
National Maritime Museum