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!
Badge of the Boatmen's Guild of the City of Hertogenbosch. Counter commemorating the badge of the Boatmen's Guild of the city of Hertogenbosch. Obverse: Port broadside view of a boat under sail beflagged with a lee board, containing three men in
1683
National Maritime Museum
Counter for Marine pensions. Counter for marine pensions. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right). Legend: 'LVD . XIIII . D . G . FR . ET . NAV . REX.' Reverse: Stern view of two large ships, sails furled (right), another in distan
1683
National Maritime Museum
Famagusta. This print - formerly unattributed and thought to be about 1714 - is a plate by de Bruyn (or van Bruyn) from his travel book published in English as 'A Voyage to the Levant' (London 1702), though it came out in Dutch a little earlier
1698
National Maritime Museum