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 plain wooden straight-sided tapered club. Probably from Malaita in the Soloman Islands. Likely to have been collected by Commander Frederick Willoughby Shortland (1853-1931) who served as a midshipman on HMS 'Basilisk' Captain John Moresby,
1872
National Maritime Museum
. A Sevres porcelain presentation vase of baluster form with gilt mask handles, presented to the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892). The vase is inscribed: 'COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL DE METRE PARIS 1872 AIRY Astronome Royal Á
1872
National Maritime Museum
. Royal Marines sword, the hilt of the sword consists of a gilt openwork half-basket guard, with the Queen's cypher 'VR' and a crown inserted in the outward bars. The reverse portion of the guard has been made to hinge down and the inside o
1872
National Maritime Museum
. Suspension thread, declination magnet. Box of 17 spools of silk of varying thicknesses for suspension purposes. Box divided inside.
1872
National Maritime Museum
. The steel scabbard has two bands with rings and a shoe. The reverse of the scabbard is stamped with the letters 'RM' and the numbers '3' and '10'.
1872
National Maritime Museum
A lugger in a breeze. Medium includes graphite.; Signed by artist and dated.
1872
National Maritime Museum
HMS Devastation. Medium includes pen and ink.; Heightened with white.; Technique includes scratching out.
1872
National Maritime Museum
HMS Frolic (1872); HMS Rifleman (1872); HMS Ready (1872); HMS Kestrel (1872); Warship; Gun vessel. Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the composite screw gun vessels HMS Frolic (1872), HMS Rifleman (1872), HMS Ready (1872) and HMS Ke
circa 1872
National Maritime Museum
Humane Society of Jersey Silver Medal. Obverse: The coat of arms of Jersey. Below a nude figure astride a broken mast in the water hand upraised. Legend: "HUMANE SOCIETY OF JERSEY". Reverse: Inscription within an oak (L) and laurel (R) wreath ti
1872
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Admiral Count Stenbock. Medal commemorating Admiral Gustavus Otto Stenbock. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Stenbock with long hair in armour and cloak (left). Legend: 'GUST . OTTO . STENBOCK COM . SEN . REGNI SVEC.' (Gustavus Otto
1872
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the stranding of N.D.L. Steamer 'Baltimore'. Medal commemorating the N.D.L. Steamer 'Baltimore'. Obverse: The steamer 'Baltimore' grounded off Hastings. Legend: 'N.D.L. STEAMER BALTIMORE'. Exerg
1872
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the tercentenary of the deliverance of Briel. Medal commemorating the tercentenary of the deliverance of Briel. Obverse: Small bust of William I, Prince of Orange, in a ruff (front) within a wreath. Legend: (outer line) 'TER HERIN
1872
National Maritime Museum
Royal Marine Artillery uniform: pattern 1872. Field Officer's sabretache
1872
National Maritime Museum
The barque 'Norham' off the Texel, approaching Amsterdam. Inscribed: "Norham of Blyth. Littlehailes Commander. Texel 1872". ‘Norham’ arrived in Amsterdam harbour in February 1872 from Theodosia in the US with a freight of l
1872
National Maritime Museum
The Royal Observatory and The Octagon Room Greenwich, Looking downhill towards the Queen's House. Watercolour of the Observatory from the roof of the what is now the Meridian Observatory painted by Christabel Airy, one of George Biddell Airy’s
1872
National Maritime Museum
Unidentified British Steam powered warship. Medium includes and graphite.; Heightened with white.; Technique includes scratching out.
1872
National Maritime Museum
. War club from Fiji. A large paddle-shaped club, decorated overall with small carved zig-zags (tava-tava) and straight lines. On label: 'War canoe paddle New Guinea lent by Miss Lowe'. Very faint, hand - written paper label attached, which re
1872
National Maritime Museum
HMS Coquette (1871). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the fore/aft body, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth of the Ariel class composite gunboat HMS Coquette (1871).
3 February 1872
National Maritime Museum
'From Life', study of a girl in peasant costume, knitting. This 'study of a girl in peasant costume, knitting' was done by Matilda Rose Herschel probably on a trip to Italy. Children of upper middle class English families were often se
March 1872
National Maritime Museum
Challenger (1858). Scale: 1:192. An Office copy of a plan showing the sail profile for Challenger (1858), a 20-gun corvette, as fitted for 'Special Service', the scientific circumnavigation between 1872 and 1876.
March 1872
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital School boys in Trafalgar Square March 9th 1872. Greenwich Hospital School was set up for the sons of poor seamen who were pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. After absorbing the separate Royal Naval Asylum in the 1820s (whi
9 March 1872
National Maritime Museum
HMS Coquette (1871). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile of the Ariel class composite gunboat HMS Coquette (1871).
16 April 1872
National Maritime Museum
HMS Coquette (1871). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck of the Ariel class composite gunboat HMS Coquette (1871).
16 April 1872
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Warrior. Print. Tinted lithograph of the three-masted armoured frigate, HMS Warrior (1860) on a starboard tack running through strong waves before a good wind. Most of her square sails are aloft and smoke streams back from the two funnels. The red
1 Jun 1872
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Crocodile. Coloured lithograph of the ironclad troopship, HMS Crocodile (1887), shown here from her starboard side lying at anchor under a deep orange sky, her white hull reflected in a placid sea. Birds skim the surface of the water. Behind her,
1 Jul 1872
National Maritime Museum
View showing three windmills on marshland, looking out to sea, with ships and windmills in the distance. Print
24 Jul 1872
National Maritime Museum
29ft Steam Pinnace No.47 for Britannia (1869). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, midship section, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, for a 29ft Steam Pinnace No.47 for Britannia (1869), a boy's training ship at Da
16 August 1872
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Devastation. Starboard broadside view of ‘Devastation’ on rough seas, under steam; various figures on deck; white ensign flying aft.
1 Oct 1872
National Maritime Museum