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).
To Sir James Saumarez.. This Plate representing the Capture of the St Antonie of 74 Guns under French Colours & the Blowing up of the Real Carlos & San Hermenegildo, Spanish... is... Dedicated by... Edwd Harding. Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1802
National Maritime Museum
To Sir James Saumarez.. This Plate representing the Gallant attack of the French Squadron under the Batteries of Algesiras... is... dedicated by... Edwd Harding. Print
1 Jan 1802
National Maritime Museum
To Sir James Saumarez... This Plate representing the Ships under his command returning from the Attack of the French Squadron Warpd aground under the Batteries of Algesiras taken from a Drawing... of the Caesar bearing the rear Admiral's Flag.... Pri
1 Jan 1802
National Maritime Museum
Woodland road with fence. Medium includes a light-green watercolour wash with some scratching out.; Bound with PAD7649-PAD783, PAD7685-PAD7686.
1 Jan 1802
National Maritime Museum
An Elevated View of The New Dock in Wapping. Hand-coloured view of the dock layout.
1 Jan 1803
National Maritime Museum
'The Hall of Greenwich Hospital, Kent'. A view of the dome and north-east corner of the King William Court of Greenwich Hospital, with the Painted Hall north facade behind, taken from abreast of the matching north-west corner of the Queen Mary C
1 January 1804
National Maritime Museum
Admiral of the Royal Navy (uniform). Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.; Plate 32. Depicts clothing, outerwear: uniform, admiral's [Royal navy]
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Battle of the Nile... the Quarter Deck of Lord Nelson's Ship the Vanguard on the night of... first of August 1798. Print
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Eleven figures in a lifeboat going out to vessels in a rough sea (Lifeboats 1A). Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... A Lodgement under the Rock on the South-west Side. Hand-coloured.; No.3.
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... South East View of the Diamond Rock, with the Cannon being hauled up from the Centaur by the Cable. Hand-coloured.; No.2.
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Ad. Nelson falling into the arms of Victory. Text in English below title.
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte. Engraved for the Lady's Magazine. Print
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Battle of the Nile Representing the situation of the two Fleets previous to the blowing up of L' Orient, on the Night of Augt 1798. Print
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
China Sea sheet 1st. To James Drummond Esquire in acknowledgement for his laudable endeavours towards perfecting the navigation of the China Sea this chart is inscribed by his most obliged James Horsburgh. Edition: Additions to 1815. Single sheet. Engr. S
1806
National Maritime Museum
His Majesty's Ship Victory Under Sail from Portsmouth to the Downs, with the Corpse of the Immortal Nelson. Hand-coloured aquatint of the 'Victory' leaving Portsmouth with Nelson's body on 11 December 1805, after bringing it home from
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Lord Admiral Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte. Engraved for the Lady's Magazine. Print
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Monody on the ever-to-be-lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, written by Mr Fox. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below image.
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Sir Edward Berry, First Captain to Lord Nelson., at the Battle of the Nile. Print
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
To the British Nation. This Design in Commemoration of those Glorious Victories atchieved by the Immortal Nelson. Technique includes roulette work.; Text in English below image.
1 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
A Bermudian Sloop, with a view upon the Spanish Main ca.1807. Technique includes etching.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
A schooner with a view of New York. Gvelette, et vue de New York. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Getting up a Kedge Anchor. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Heaving a Lead. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD7766. See PAD7785 for further information.
Published 1 January 1807
National Maritime Museum
Heaving the Lead. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD7765. See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, Lord Viscount And Baron Nelson, Drawn from life the 11th Decr 1800 by S. De Koster. Engraved from the original Drawing in his Possession by T.Burke. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, Lord Viscount And Baron Nelson. Drawn from Life the 11th December 1800 by S. De Koster. Engraved from the original drawing in his possession by T. Burke. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, Lord Viscount and Baron Nelson. Drawn from Life the 11th December 1800 by, S. De Koster. Engraved from the original drawing in his possession by T. Burke. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, Lord Viscount And Baron Nelson. Drawn from Life the 11th Decr 1800 by S. De Koster. Engraved from the original Drawing in his Possession by T. Burke. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Nelson, Lord Viscount and Baron Nelson. Drawn from Life the 11th Decr 1800 by, S. De Koster. Engraved from the original Drawing in his Possession by T Burke. Print
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Launching a Dover Cutter. Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Men of War getting under weigh. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Post Captain. This is one of the 33 plates that made up the first and only volume published (of three intended, comprising 100 in all) of Atkinson's 'A Picturesque Representation of the Naval, Military and Miscellaneous Costumes of Great Britain
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Sailor (uniform). Hand-coloured. Depicts clothing, outerwear: dress, seaman's.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Sailors. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD7762. See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Sailors. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD7763. See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
The Fisherman. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Watermen. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information.
1 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
Board Room of the Admiralty. Print. Plate 3 in volume 1 of Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' ( 3 vols, 1808-11); has extensive accompanying descriptive letterpress in the book.
Published 1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Coasting Schooner. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Dock at Bristol with a Trader. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. For description, see coloured copy PAD7775. This example is an uncoloured impression on a full untrimmed sheet, sound but in need of cleaning and flattening of old folds.
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. One of a series of prints of seamen and shipping by Atkinson, on which see PAD7785 for further information. One man is sitting on a bench to the left by the corner of a masonry wall, with a crutch leaning on the seat beside him. The
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. Stored in mount with PAD7775, which see, for notes.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
HMS Caledonia (1808); Warship; 1st rate; 120 guns. Scale: Unknown. A model made in two halves showing two designs for the circular stern for HMS Caledonia (1808), made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull, rudder
Unknown
National Maritime Museum
Joseph Cotton F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House. Print. Joseph Cotton (1746-1825) was appointed Deputy Master of Trinity House in 1803. He served as a Director of the East India Company between 1795 and 1823. For several years he was also the Chai
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Peter Boats. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Smugglers. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Unloading a Collier. Technique includes aquatinting. Hand-coloured. This is a good illustration of what was known as 'whipping' , the classic way of unloading coal in particular but also similar loose cargo or ballast. The vessel is probably a
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Landing Fish. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1809
National Maritime Museum
'Greenwich Hospital. The Painted Hall'. Plate 97 in vol 3 of Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (3 vols, 1808-11), drawn and etched by Rowlandson (who did the figures) and Pugin, aquatint by Bluck. The view is looking west from th
Published 1 January 1810
National Maritime Museum
To Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire. This Original View of the Island of Texel in Holland is... dedicated by... S Hutchinson. Print
1 Jan 1810
National Maritime Museum
West India Docks. A detailed depiction of the West India Docks in 1810, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin. This print shows the warehouses at the quayside and several West Indiamen moored alongside. The extensive warehousing was needed to ac
1 January 1810
National Maritime Museum
London, from Greenwich. Picture in the possession of Walter Fawkes Esqr. of Farnley. A plate from Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', based on his oil of 'London' (Butlin & Joll, no. 97), which he exhibited at his own gallery at his h
1 January 1811
National Maritime Museum
Neptune's Last Resource or the Fortune Hunter foiled, a Sketch from Heathen Mythology (caricature). Print
1 Jan 1812
National Maritime Museum
Fishing Boats in a Breeze. From an original drawing by S. Owen, Esqr in the possession of the proprietors of this work. Hand-coloured.
1 Jan 1813
National Maritime Museum
Fishing Boats in a Breeze. From an original drawing by S. Owen, Esqr in the possession of the proprietors of this work. Print
1 Jan 1813
National Maritime Museum
Fishing Boats in a Breeze. From an original drawing by S. Owen, Esqr in the possession of the proprietors of this work. Print
1 Jan 1813
National Maritime Museum
The Embarkation of Genl. Junot, after the Convention of Cintra, at Quai Sodre. To Lieutenant General Sullivan Carr Beresford, K.B., Field Marshall in the Service of Portugal.... Plate 4.
1 Jan 1813
National Maritime Museum
Plate 1. Situation of His Majesty's Frigate Java... Action with the American Frigate Constitution... rendered totally unmanageable. A hand-coloured aquatint depicting the three-hour battle between 'Constitution', the US frigate, and 'J
1 Jan 1814
National Maritime Museum
Saturn (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile with figurehead and alterations, for Saturn (1786), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after being cut down and fitted as a 58-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate. The old upper deck became a continuous qu
1 January 1814
National Maritime Museum
Saturn (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck (gun deck) for Saturn (1786), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after being cut down and fitted as a 58-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate.
Signed by Thomas Roberts [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 181
1 January 1814
National Maritime Museum
Saturn (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Saturn (1786), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after being cut down and fitted as a 58-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate. The old upper deck became a continuous quarterdec
1 January 1814
National Maritime Museum
Saturn (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Saturn (1786), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after being cut down and fitted as a 58-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate.
Signed by Thomas Roberts [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1813-1815].
1 January 1814
National Maritime Museum
Alexander 1st Emperor of All the Russias. Engraved by H.R. Cook (by Permission from a Miniature) for Gifford's History of the War. Technique includes etching.
1815
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the bombardment of Algiers, 1816 and Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). Medal commemorating the bombardment of Algiers, 1816 and Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). Obverse: Lord Exmouth'
1816
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the bombardment of Algiers, 1816 and Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). Medal commemorating the bombardment of Algiers, 1816 and Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). Obverse: Lord Exmouth'
1816
National Maritime Museum