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All 4689American Air Museum
American Air Museum 1690
Europeana
Sjöhistoriska museet 277
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 244
Vänersborgs museum 157
Bohusläns museum 75
Kulturarv Västernorrland 58
Flygvapenmuseum 58
Miliseum 22
Rijksmuseum 12
Historisch Museum Ede 10
Tekniska museet 7
Riksantikvarieämbetet 7
CODA Museum 6
Aaltense Musea 6
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 5
Marinmuseum 4
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 4
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 3
Cluj County Library 1
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 1
Flickr Commons
National Library of Australia Commons 44
Swedish National Heritage Board 19
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 19
Provincial Archives of Alberta 15
State Library of Queensland, Australia 9
The U.S. National Archives 7
State Library of New South Wales collection 6
Australian War Memorial collection 5
State Library and Archives of Florida 4
MissouriStateArchives 4
NASA on The Commons 3
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
The National Archives UK 2
Deseronto Archives 1
Costică Acsinte Archive 1
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 1
National Museum of Denmark 1
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 1
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1
Imperial War Museums
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 1258
Other 129
War Office Second World War Official Collection 100
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 61
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 55
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 23
Admiralty Official Collection 20
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 13
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 13
Heydecker Joe Julius Collection 12
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 11
Zimnal Marian (lieutenant Colonel) Collection 03 10
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 6
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 2
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 1
War Diary In Four Volumes 1
Life Story (by date of death) 51
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 44
Oil Paintings 25
Uniforms 14
Navigational Instruments 14
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 11
Sculpture 4
Charts & Maps 3
Oceanography 3
Historic Photographic Negatives 3
Historic Photograph Albums 2
Coins & Commemorative Medals 1
Flags 1
Orders & Medals 1
Firearms 1
Year
All 382291860 3
1862 1
1863 8
1886 1
1893 1
1899 1
1900 5
1901 2
1902 5
1903 2
1904 2
1905 4
1906 2
1907 9
1908 19
1909 31
1910 16
1911 21
1912 19
1913 26
1914 1810
1915 3052
1916 4074
1917 9058
1918 12547
1919 1056
1920 246
1921 36
1922 14
1923 27
1924 4
1925 3
1926 3
1927 8
1928 4
1929 3
1930 3
1931 3
1932 10
1933 12
1934 11
1935 7
1936 9
1937 7
1938 12
1939 120
1940 327
1941 355
1942 634
1943 1860
1944 1715
1945 745
1946 53
1947 5
1949 10
1950 1
1951 3
1952 12
1953 7
1954 8
1955 12
1956 19
1957 4
1958 3
1959 16
1960 4
1961 18
1962 9
1963 8
1964 10
1965 35
1966 9
1967 13
1968 6
1969 11
About this site
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
Technology overview
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).
Licence
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
