Quick links
Filters
Source
All 1354American Air Museum
American Air Museum 9
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 293
Sjöhistoriska museet 255
Kulturarv Västernorrland 166
Bohusläns museum 163
Vänersborgs museum 27
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 26
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 15
Flygvapenmuseum 14
Rijksmuseum 14
Miliseum 11
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 5
Tekniska museet 3
Marinmuseum 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 2
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 2
Historisch Museum Ede 1
Sundsvalls museum 1
Stichting Liemers Museum 1
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
Flickr Commons
The Library of Congress 97
State Library and Archives of Florida 18
MissouriStateArchives 12
The U.S. National Archives 8
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 6
State Library of New South Wales collection 6
State Library of Queensland, Australia 5
NASA on The Commons 5
Swedish National Heritage Board 5
National Library of Australia Commons 4
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest 4
Australian War Memorial collection 3
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
Provincial Archives of Alberta 2
UW Digital Collections 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 1
Royal Australian Historical Society 1
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 1
Imperial War Museums
Other 21
War Office Second World War Official Collection 11
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 10
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 4
War Office, Central Office Of Information And American Second World War Official Collection 3
Belfast Telegraph Collection 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 1
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 1
Life Story (by date of death) 39
National Maritime Museum
Astronomical Instruments 27
Ship Models 19
Orders & Medals 4
Uniforms 4
Coins & Commemorative Medals 3
Prints & Drawings 2
Ordnance 2
Navigational Instruments 2
Edged Weapons 1
Globes 1
Heraldry 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!
