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!
Bement & Dougherty, Industrial Works, Machinists' Tools
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Concrete pylons being erected for the first permanent Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, ca. 1869
Taken some time in 1869
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Early Photolithography - Suitable Types of Originals - 1869 - John Sharkey.
Taken some time in 1869
Royal Australian Historical Society
Evans, Gardner & Co., Importers & Jobbers Of Dry Goods
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
John Dwight & Co's Super-Carb. Soda.; M.W. Robinson, Sole Agent, Smith & Wesson's Revolvers.
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Lane & Bodley, Stationery & Portable Steam Engines & Mill Machinery
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
National Line. Steamers, Weekly, between New York & Liverpool, calling at Queenstown
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Poole & Hunt, Founders & Machinists, Established 1851.
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
s. 1 On board the "Nereid" 1869 ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 12. Mills at Bræmar ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 14. Nordö Sund - Norway ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 15. Hellingsö Lighthouse ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 19. Near Aalsund ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 20. Near Aalsund ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 27. At Veblungsnaes ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 28. Church Veblungsnaes ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 30. Romsdal's Horn ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 31. Trolltinderne - Romsdal ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 36 Summit of Storhatten ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 37 On the Road to Veblungsnaes ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 39 At Veblungsnaes ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 4. "Nereid" - Aberdeen ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 5 King's College, Aberdeen ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 51 Geiranger. Haysticks ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 59 Melkevold + Glacier ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 6 Brig of Balgownie ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 60 Brixdals Brae ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 61 Brixdals Brae ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 63 Brixdals Brae ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 64 Brixdals Brae ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 66 Olden Vand - Evening ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 68 Loden - Nord Fjord ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 73 Kjendal's Brae. Nord Fjord ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 75 Kjendal's Brae. Kjendals Krone ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 76 On Kjendal's Brae ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 80 Prestergaard - Indvik ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 86 Stavanger - The Enocksens ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 87 Stavanger Harbour ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 91 The Domkirk - Stavanger ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 95 Pic-nic Lysse Fjord ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 96 Glen - Lysse Fjord ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
s. 98 James E. Backhouse ["Cruise of the "Nereid" 1869"]
Taken some time in 1869
National Library of Norway
St. Charles Hotel, Pittsburg., Penn'a; Merchants Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
The Summit Tunnel at Livermore Pass, Alameda County - looking in.
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Vose, Dinsmore & Company, Railway Car Springs
Taken some time in 1869
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Petition of Mary Todd Lincoln requesting a pension, 01/26/1869 (page 1 of 2)
Taken 26 Jan 1869
The U.S. National Archives