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!
Exhibition Hall, Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Prince Alfred Park, Sydney / Charles Bayliss
Taken some time in 1873
National Library of Australia Commons
Garden of the Tivolie [sic] de San Cosme, Mexico
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Garden of the Tivolie [sic] de San Cosme, Mexico
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Joseph Robson, convicted of stealing a bird cage
Taken some time in 1873
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
No. 10. State University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, Lawrence, Kansas.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 11. Stud Farm and Race Track, Lawrence, Kansas.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 24. Railway and Passenger Bridge over the Republican River, Junction City, Kansas.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 27. Falls of the Solomon River at Solomon City, Kansas. Creator: Benecke, Robert, 1835-1903
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 52. Kansas Pacific Railway Roundhouse at Ellis, Kansas.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 58. Carson, the Northern Terminus of the Arkansas Valley R. W.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
No. 60. Kansas Pacific Railway Depot at Denver, Colorado.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Pulque Plantation, Chapultepec in the distance, Mexico.
Taken some time in 1873
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Chinese translation of the Gold Fields Regulations and Gold Fields Act, 1873
Taken 1 May 1873
State Library of Queensland, Australia