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!
. This identification band was locked on to an enslaved person’s wrist when they were sent off the plantation, to conduct an errand such as deliver a letter, herd livestock or transport sugar. While restricted in their freedom of movement and action
1746
National Maritime Museum
A Lima half-crown. A Lima half-crown. Obverse: Bust of George II (left), laureate, long hair, cloak over armour. Legend: 'GEORGIUS . II . DEI . GRATIA .' Below: 'LIMA.' Reverse: Four crowned shields, forming with the Star of the garte
1746
National Maritime Museum
A new and exact chart of the islands of Guernsey, Sercq, Herm & Jethou; in which all the rocks, shoals and other dangers near those islands are carefully laid down: also the various soundings, and the ebbing and flowing of the tides. The whole done fr
1746
National Maritime Museum
A Perspective View of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. The authority for the received date of 1746 on this object record is not known. For other copies of the print see PAH3285, PAI0484, PAI5664 and (for notes) PAI5665.
1746
National Maritime Museum
An accurate chart of the islands of Alderney and Burhou and also of the Caskets, shewing all the rocks near them; likewise the soundings, course of the tides and the anchorage around Alderney. Survey'd and drawn by Nicholas Dobree of Guernsey Esqr. a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating four galleys being fitted out. Counter commemorating four galleys being fitted out. Obverse: Head of King Louis XV in a tie-wig, laureate (right). Legend: 'LUD . XV . REX CHRISTIANISS.' Reverse: An arrow flying to the right
1746
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland, 1746. Counter commemorating the landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland, 1746. Obverse: Youthful bust of Admiral Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793) wi
1746
National Maritime Museum
Devonshire (1745). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Devonshire (1745), a 1741 Establishment 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker, after being cut down and
1746
National Maritime Museum
Gezigt van een gedeelte van de Haven der Stede Vlaardingen, te zien van de kade van de buitenweide West en Noordwaarts op. Technique includes etching.
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 1 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles roundbegun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyor
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 10 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 11 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 12 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 13 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 14 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 15 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs a
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 16 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-survey
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 2 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyo
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 3 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyo
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 4 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles roundbegun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyor
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 5 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs an
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 6 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs an
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 7 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round. Bound sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: ca. 1:12 370 (bar). Cartographic Note: The map has bar scales in miles, furlongs an
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 8 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyo
1746
National Maritime Museum
Sheet 9 from: An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, by John Rocque land-surveyo
1746
National Maritime Museum
Taste in High Life. William Hogarth was one of the most important artists and caricaturists of the 18th century. In this domestic interior scene of a fashionable house, he has included a young African boy attired in ‘oriental’ dress. Obsession
1746
National Maritime Museum
Tyger (1747) [alternative spelling: Tiger]. Scale: 1: 48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Tyger (1747), a 1745 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker building at Stanton & Wells, Rotherhithe.
20 October 1746
National Maritime Museum
Tyger (1747) [alternative spelling: Tiger]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 60-gun two-decker prepared by the Master Shipwrights of Chatham, Deptford, Portsmouth, Woolwich and
Circa 1745
National Maritime Museum
Tyger (1747) [alternative spelling: Tiger]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Tyger (1747), a 1745 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
30 October 1746
National Maritime Museum
Tyger (1747) [alternative spelling: Tiger]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Tyger (1747), a 1745 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
20 October 1746
National Maritime Museum
Tyger (1747) [alternative spelling: Tiger]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Tyger (1747), a 1745 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
20 October 1746
National Maritime Museum
The taking of the 'Nuestra Senora de les Remedios' by the 'Prince Frederick', 'Duke' and 'Prince George' Privateers, 5th February 1746. In 1753 Boydell published a set of engravings illustrating the exploits of the
1753
National Maritime Museum
The taking of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios (alias La Ninsa) a Spanish Ship.... by the Royal family privateers, 5 February 1746, off Cape St Marys. (Shows Prince Frederick, Duke and Prince George under Commodore Talbot). Print
1753
National Maritime Museum
The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios (alias La Ninfa) a prize to the Royal family Privateers taken 5 February 1746, and lost in November following near Beachey head on the coast of Sussex. Print
1753
National Maritime Museum