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).
Rifleman James McMurray 4844, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Joseph McGinty 4519. Unit: 5 Platoon, 2 Company, 1st/8th Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment. Death: 07 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Thomas George Turnbull 3756, London Regiment
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Wilfred Swale C/12627. Unit: 13th Platoon, 21st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 07 October 1916 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman William Arthur Ashby 2344. Unit: 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 7 October 1916, Western Front.
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman William George Eaton 5924/372995. Unit: 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 07 October 1916 Western Front.
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman William George Gilbert 372299, 8th London Regiment
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alexander John Hanmer , East Kent Regiment
Died 7 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant Charles Pelham Gardner Aldrich , Royal Fusiliers
Died 7 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant Edwin Cecil Russell Christmas , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 7 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant Frank Ive , Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 7 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant John Harold Allender. Unit: 15th Platoon, "D" Company, 1st Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 7 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Joseph Harold Laycock , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Leonard Percy Miles , Royal Fusiliers
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Oswald Charles Blencowe. Unit: 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 7 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Stephen William Skinner. Unit: 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 07 October 1916 Missing at Flers Western Front
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Henry Heilbron Stanwood C/6279. Unit: A Company, 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 07 October 1916 Wounded and missing
Died 7 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Alfred Montagu Barrow 1582, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant David Jones VC 14951, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 7 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Settlers from near Winnipeg, Canada. Landing at Littlefield, Texas in special through Sleeper from Winnipeg on Oct 7 - 1916.
Taken 7 Oct 1916
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Driver William Alfred Bicknell T4/248147, Army Service Corps
Died 7 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Major Richard Henry Bonnycastle , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 7 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Kitchen 35390, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Edmund Adcock 16522, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Ernest Tunnicliffe 19610, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Frederick C Taylor 17946, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private George James Joseph Shilton 17955, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private George Spraggitt 330794, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Hartley Slater 24346, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Herbert Kaye 32353, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private John Todd 238011, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Private Joseph Skinner 33009, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Leslie Duncan Young , Manchester Regiment
Died 7 October 1917
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Acting Bombardier Maurice Louis Anselme McGreer 347452, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 7 October 1918
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Private 1st Class George Samuel Griffiths 233189, Royal Air Force
Died 7 October 1918
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Private Benjamin Woodrow Brown 358246, King's (Liverpool) Regiment
Died 7 October 1918
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Private Leonard Wright 52083, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1918
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Private Sidney Harold Boyce 32472, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 7 October 1918
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Private William Charles Bussell 701797, London Regiment
Died 7 October 1918
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Private William Henry Bloomfield 18996, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
Died 7 October 1918
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Private William Wilfred Hewitt 20262, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
Died 7 October 1918
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Staff Serjeant Fred Hague 608002, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 7 October 1918
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Stoker 1st Class Albert Briggs K29001, H.M.S. "Abercrombie"
Died 7 October 1918
Lives of the First World War