This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). 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
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
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 website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
A True Position of the French Fleet, as they were Moored near the Mouth of the Nile, and the manner in which Lord Nelson formed his Attack on them on the ever memorable 1st of August 1798. Technique includes aquatint.; Text in English below image.
20 Feb 1799
National Maritime Museum
Union between England & Ireland (caricature). Mounted with PAG8541.; Hand-coloured.; No.28.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
20 Feb 1799
National Maritime Museum
The Ceremony of Lord Nelson's Interment, in St Paul's Cathedral, Jany 9th 1806. The funeral ceremony of Nelson in St Paul's Cathedral. The captured Spanish and French battle flags are hanging from the cathedral walls.
20 Feb 1806
National Maritime Museum
Youthful Intrepidity. Young Nelson's Attack & Chase After A Bear, when with Captn Lutwidge on his Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole. vide Lord Nelson's Life. Print
20 Feb 1806
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Cleopatre by H.M.S. La Nymphe off the Start, June 18th 1793. Technique includes etching.
20 Feb 1815
National Maritime Museum
To James Weddell, Esqr R.N... the brig Jane and cutter Beaufoy on 20th February 1823, bearing up in 74o 15' (Being the highest Southern Latitude ever reached). Hand-coloured. James Weddell's 1822-24 expedition to Antarctica was to find new seali
Oct 1826
National Maritime Museum
Proposed iron nippers on chain cables (1827). Scale: 1:3 and 1:24. Plan showing the elevation of the fore part of a flush-deck 18-gun Sloop illustrating the use of the iron nippers on the chain cables, and a diagram of the nipper open, closed, and in sec
20 February 1827
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Hannibal 91 Guns... flagship... leaving Anapa, June 12th 1855. Print
20 Feb 1856
National Maritime Museum
prent (niet in kleur) uit 'La mode illustrée' 1870-02-20
20 February 1870
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
First passenger train of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad en route to the summit, Alaska
Taken 20 Feb 1899
UW Digital Collections
De kunstenaar Benjamin Prins in zijn atelier in de Plantage Franselaan 25 in Amsterdam
20 February 1903
Rijksmuseum
Onze torpedobootjagers Hayatori en Asagiri vernietigen vijandelijke schepen tijdens een sneeuwstorm in Port Arthur.
20 February 1904
Rijksmuseum
Enligt text som medföljde bilden: "Flaggtåget vid Roskildefesten 20/2 08.
20 February 1908
Bohusläns museum
Enligt text som medföljde bilden: "Lysekil. Flaggtåget vid Roskildefesten 20/2 08."
20 February 1908
Bohusläns museum
If General George Washington were our president to-day (LOC)
Taken 20 Feb 1910
The Library of Congress
Captain Vivian Holmes Watkins. Unit: 1st/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Death: 20 February 1915 Wounded on 16 January 1915 Western Front. Died in the Empire Hospital Westminster
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil Henry Dundas. Unit: 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915 Wounded 19 February 1915 near Ypres Western Front.
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Newman enlisted with the Queen's Westminster Rifles on the outbreak of War in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front on 20 February 1915. Following the Battle of Hooge, he was invalided home and acquired a commission in the North Sta
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Manns 8299, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 20 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Elworthy Kidner 2546, London Regiment
Died 20 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private James McLuckie 3104, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Arthur Spencer 8561, Coldstream Guards
Died 20 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Jack St. Clair Gainey Harris. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915, killed in action at La Bassee, Western Front.
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ralph Morison Forbes-Ross. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915 Zillbeke Western Front
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Ernest Morcom Watkins 6622, Kings Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Died 20 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Städtisches Schweinefett - Troppau
20 February 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal George Alfred Field 10664, South Wales Borderers
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Clissold 20594, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Newman 6799, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Frank Banks G/J603, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Sapper Edwin William Edwards 132383, Royal Engineers
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Peter Hornung , Royal Field Artillery
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Frank Henry Bourne 6926, South Wales Borderers
Died 20 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Company Sergeant Major W H Littlejohn 204331. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 20 February 1917 Western Front
Died 20 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Roberts 202108, Canadian Army Service Corps
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Clifford Edwards Garnham 4664, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Stephen Legoabe 9763, South African Native Labour Corps
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Arthur James Holt 323443, London Regiment
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman George William Gullock 320319, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Thomas George Pearce 321428 – formerly 3716. Unit: 14th Platoon, D Company, 1st/6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Rifles). Death: 20 February 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 20 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Thomas George Pearce 321428, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 20 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain William Kerwin Tully-Christie , Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Henry Walter Palmer 531844, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Henry Biddulph Pinchard 533734, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Henry Brunker Barnard 534060, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Pierpoint 531196, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry George Humphries 533918, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Jack Israel Lumer 530998, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Ernest Gaiser 533837, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 20 February 1918
Lives of the First World War