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!
A Dutch Flagship with a Yacht Under Her Stern. On the left of the picture, a small yacht is firing a salute as a mark of respect to the flagship in the left centre to the picture. Figures in the stern of the ship repay the gesture by waving their hats, an
1694
National Maritime Museum
A map of ye north east and north west parts of the Pole. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:1 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Polar projection.
From An account of several late voyages and discoveries, 1694.
1694
National Maritime Museum
An Astronomer with Astrolabe and a Telescope. A print after a French 13th century manuscript (now in the Bodelian Library, Oxford). Despite the title given, the man is actually holding a sighting tube rather than a telescope. By the 4th century BC, sighti
1854
National Maritime Museum
An English Merchant Ship in a Mediterranean Harbour in a Light Breeze with Many Other Vessels. A scene of a busy Mediterranean harbour showing shipping at anchor. The profile of a town has been positioned horizontally in the distance, compositionally divi
1694
National Maritime Museum
Carte nouvelle de la mer Mediterranee ou sont exactement remarques tous les ports, golfes, rochers, bancs de sable &c: a l'usage des armees du Roy de la Grande Bretagne. Dresse sur les memoires les plus nouveaux par le Sr Romain de Hooge.. Single
1694
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating Louis A. de Bourbon, Duc du Maine (born 1670), Grandmaster of Artillery. Counter commemorating Louis A. de Bourbon, Duc du Maine (born 1670), Grandmaster of Artillery. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de
1694
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating Louis A. de Bourbon, Duc du Maine, Grandmaster of Artillery. Counter commemorating Louis A. de Bourbon, Duc du Maine (born 1670), Grandmaster of Artillery, elder brother of the Comte de Toulouse. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexa
1694
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating success in Spain. Counter commemorating success in Spain. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) as a youth with long hair, in armour and cravat (right). Legend: 'L . ALEX . DE . BOVRB
1694
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Admiral Jean Bart recapturing the corn fleet, 1694. Medal commemorating Admiral Jean Bart recapturing the corn fleet, 1694. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRITIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Th
1694
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the bombardment of Havre, 1694. Medal commemorating the bombardment of Havre, 1694. Obverse: Bust of King William III laureate, in a wig and mantle (right). Legend: 'INVICTISSIMVS GUILLELMVS MAG'. Reverse: A brazen bull stand
1694
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the bombardment of the French coast, 1694. Medal commemorating the bombardment of the French coast, 1694. Obverse: King William III, laureate, standing dressed as a Roman general, a fulmen in his right hand. Legend: 'IOVI TONANTI.
1694
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Palamos, 1694. Medal commemorating the capture of Palamos, 1694. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: A female
1694
National Maritime Museum