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!
Carte universelle du commerce, c'est a dire carte hidrographique, ou sont exactement decrites, les costes des 4 parties du monde, par P.Du-Val Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. 1686. A Paris. Chez l'auteur, en l'Isle du Palais, sur le quay de l
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Harwich Woodbridge and Handfordwater with the sands from the Nazeland to Hosely Bay. To ye Honble Samuel Pepys Esq this chart is dedicated and presented by Capt Greenvil Collins Hydrog to the King 1686. Scale: 1:50,000 (bar). Printed chart of the North Se
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Medal commemorating the victories over the Turks in Morea, 1687. Medal commemorating the victories over the Turks in Morea, 1687. Obverse: Victory seated, palm in right hand, which holds on knee an oval shield inscribed 'DE TVRCIS . 1686.' (Won
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The River Humber is mostly humbly dedicated and presented to the worshipll corporation of Trinity House at Kingston upon Hull by Capt Greenvile Collins Hydrogr to the King. Scale: 1:90,000 (bar). Printed chart of the estuary of the River Humber. Compass r
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National Maritime Museum
Victorien Der Doorlugtige Republyk van Venetien, In't Veroveren Van Navarino, en't slaan van den Seraskier Bassa op Morea, 1686. Text in Dutch below image.
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