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 Castle with a Ship Sailing Nearby. This painting shows a Dutch ship on calm waters. The ship is moving through a channel, towing a boat. The deck is full of figures all facing the bow of the ship. The vessel is depicted in port-bow view, as if about to
1626
National Maritime Museum
A new and accurat map of the world drawn according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have been made by English or strangers. 1626. [at foot] Are to be sold in Pops-head Alle by Geor: Humble.. Single sheet. Hand colour
1626
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating Dutch losses, 1626. Counter commemorating Dutch losses, 1626. Obverse: Troops in combat, above, the Hebrew word 'Jehovah' below the crowned arms of the province of Utrecht. Legend: 'VSQVEQVO . HOSTES . IMMINENT . VNDIQ
1626
National Maritime Museum