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All 5547American Air Museum
American Air Museum 157
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 704
Vänersborgs museum 212
Sjöhistoriska museet 177
Rijksmuseum 163
Kulturarv Västernorrland 102
Bohusläns museum 67
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 36
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 32
Tekniska museet 28
Miliseum 26
Flygvapenmuseum 18
Marinmuseum 14
Historisch Museum Ede 9
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 8
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 8
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 5
Örebro läns museum 5
Ajuntament de Girona 4
Riksantikvarieämbetet 4
CODA Museum 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 2
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 2
Images of Old Cluj 1
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 1
Skansen 1
Stadskasteel Zaltbommel 1
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 33
State Library and Archives of Florida 20
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 18
MissouriStateArchives 15
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 13
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 13
bibliothequedetoulouse 10
National Museum of Denmark 10
NASA on The Commons 8
The Library of Congress 6
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 4
State Library of Queensland, Australia 3
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 3
State Library of New South Wales collection 3
Australian War Memorial collection 2
National Library of Norway 2
UW Digital Collections 2
National Library NZ on The Commons 2
National Archives of Estonia 2
Deseronto Archives 1
tyrrellhistoricallibrary 1
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 1617
Imperial War Museums
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 254
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 252
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 164
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 100
Other 66
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 54
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 25
Womens War Work 19
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 18
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 18
War Office Second World War Official Collection 9
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 7
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June - July 1918 6
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 6
The Royal Navy 1914 - 1918 5
War Office First World War Official Collection 5
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 5
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 5
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 5
Deaths: Nurses General 4
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 4
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 4
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 4
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 4
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 4
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 December 1917 - February 1918 3
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 3
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 3
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 3
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August - September 1917 2
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 2
Deaths: Other Services- Waacs 2
Robson Harold Burge (hon) Collection 2
Medals And Decorations: Royal Red Cross 2
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 1
War Office, Central Office Of Information And American Second World War Official Collection 1
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 1
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 1
Slater Percival James (colonel) Collection 1
Admiralty Official Collection 1
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses- Serbian Relief Fund 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 1
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 784
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 60
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 14
Oil Paintings 7
Orders & Medals 5
Historic Photographic Negatives 4
Glass 3
Archive 2
Coins & Commemorative Medals 1
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 1
Charts & Maps 1
Other 1
Year
All 671895 3
1896 2
1897 1
1898 3
1904 1
1905 1
1908 5
1910 1
1911 2
1913 2
1920 1
1921 1
1924 5
1925 7
1928 1
1934 1
1938 1
1950 7
1951 11
1956 3
1958 1
1963 7
About this site
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
Data sources
Update 16 October 2018
- Addition of nearly 60,000 superb dated autochromes (one of the earliest commercial colour processes) from the Musée Albert Kahn, accessed through the Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
- Complete refresh of Flickr Commons, Europeana, and National Maritime Museum data
- Added pagination as many dates now have signifcantly more than 100 images!
Current totals by data source
- Europeana - 72434 items
- Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines - 58556 items
- Imperial War Museums - 38229 items
- Lives of the First World War - 33134 items
- National Maritime Museum - 29529 items
- Flickr Commons - 13362 items
- American Air Museum - 5054 items
Current totals by date accuracy
- Precise date - 206835 items
- Accurate to month only - 16699 items
- Accurate to year only - 26764 items
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;
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 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).