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).
[The English pursue the Spanish fleet east of Plymouth on 31 July - 1 August 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:250,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English miles. The chart
1590
National Maritime Museum
Britannia (1762). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, inboard profile, and basic longitudinal half-breadth for Britannia (1762), a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy, 1755-1771] and William Bately [Surveyo
1 August 1757
National Maritime Museum
John Harrison...Inventor of the Compound Pendulum & of several Time Keepers.... Print, after Thomas King's 1767 oil portrait, in the collection of the Science Museum, London. The timekeeper in the gimballed table case behind Harrison is 'H3&
1 Aug 1768
National Maritime Museum
Shipping in a Harbour. From the Original Drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire. Technique includes roulette work.; Plate No.54.
1 Aug 1774
National Maritime Museum
Caesar (cancelled 1783); Bulwark (cancelled 1783). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with quarter gallery decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for 'Caesar' (cancelled 1783), and in 1778 for 'Bulwark' (c
1 August 1777
National Maritime Museum
Speed's Monument. In the Chancel of St Giles's, Cripplegate. Text in English below image.
1 Aug 1791
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital. Plate 13 from a series. A rustically fanciful view from the Isle of Dogs, with a Naval sailor and his lass in the foreground and anglers on the right. The breeze is taking vessels down stream but those coming up are flat-aback and poss
1 August 1792
National Maritime Museum
Bay of Maran, Martinique. Hand-coloured.; Attached to and mounted with PAG8927.; Plate No.1.
1 Aug 1796
National Maritime Museum
Pigeon Island, Martinique. Hand-coloured.; Attached to and mounted with PAG8926.; Plate No.2.
1 Aug 1796
National Maritime Museum
S.W. View of Forts Bourbon & Louis in the Island of Martinique, 5 Feb - 22 Mar 1794. Hand-coloured.; Plate No.4.
1 Aug 1796
National Maritime Museum
Adml Jervis From the original Picture in the Collection of Adm. Barrington. Print
1 Aug 1797
National Maritime Museum
Henry D'Esterre Darby Esqr. Captain of His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon Aug 1st 1798. Print
Jan 1801
National Maritime Museum
Perspective plan of the Glorious Victory obtained by Admiral Lord Nelson over the French Fleet on the 1st of August 1798. Print
Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. who gloriously defeated the French Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile - August 1st 1798. Print
1 Aug 1798
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798. A depiction of a battle during the French Revolutionary War, 1793-1802. On 19 May 1798, Napoleon sailed from Toulon on his hazardous adventure to Egypt, capturing Malta en route. On realizing this, Rear-Admiral Sir H
1808
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798. An important naval engagement during the French Revolutionary War, 1793-1802. On 19 May 1798, Napoleon sailed from Toulon on his hazardous adventure to Egypt, capturing Malta en route. On realizing this, Rear-Admiral
1801
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: End of the Action. On 19 May 1798, Napoleon sailed from Toulon on his hazardous adventure to Egypt, capturing Malta on the way. On 1 August, Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson sighted Alexandria, with its harbour full o
1799
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of the Nile: Destruction of 'L'Orient', 1 August 1798. An unfinished painting of the Battle of the Nile. Nelson's decisive victory over the French off the coast of Egypt led to the disintegration of Napoleon's army by i
1825
National Maritime Museum
View 1st of the Memorable Victory of the Nile, Gained in August 1798, over the French by the British Fleet in Aboukir Bay.... Inscription in English below image.
1802
National Maritime Museum
Commodore Griffith From an Original Miniature in the Possession of Capt Walter Booth. From an Original Miniature in the Possession of Capt Walter Booth . Portrait of Walter Griffith, Esq. Commander of a division of his Majesty's ships and vessels at
1 Aug 1800
National Maritime Museum
Commodore Griffith. From an Original Miniature in the possession of Capt. Walter Booth. Print
1 Aug 1800
National Maritime Museum
Sr John Lockhart Ross Bart Vice Admiral of the Blue. Print, from the 'Naval Chronicle'. Stored in mount with PAD2986.
1 Aug 1801
National Maritime Museum
Sr John Lockhart Ross Bart Vice Admiral of the Blue. Print, from the 'Naval Chronicle'; stored with PAD2987
1 Aug 1801
National Maritime Museum
Mr Henry Greathead of South Shields, the Inventor of the Life Boat. European Magazine. Print
1 Aug 1804
National Maritime Museum
Doctors Commons. Doctors Commons was the colloquial name for the College of Advocates and Doctors of Law, situated near St. Paul's Cathedral.
Print
1 Aug 1808
National Maritime Museum
Hoe Chu Fou Toe a Chinese Fort near Canton. Hoe Chu Fou Toe (Dutch Folly Fort) was one of the most popular motifs for Western artists visiting Canton from 1780. It was an oval fort built by Dutchmen on a sand bar in the Canton River. It lay about 800 metr
1 August 1810
National Maritime Museum
Purfleet. Copper-plate print, entitled 'Purfleet'. Purfleet is on the Essex (north) shore of the Thames 16 miles east of London. This print is one in Owen's series 'The Thames' of 1809-11.
1 August 1810
National Maritime Museum
South West View of Canton. Hoe Chu Fou Toe (Dutch Folly Fort) on the Canton River lies east of the foreign factories. The factories can be seen in the background.
1 Aug 1810
National Maritime Museum
Loutherbourg. Engd. by Page from the Original Picture in the possession of Mrs Loutherbourg. Print
1 Aug 1814
National Maritime Museum
Lady Hamilton sitting in a chair with her chin resting on her hand). Print
1 Aug 1815
National Maritime Museum
The West India Docks. Print entitled 'The West India Docks' and, lower right of image, 'for the Beauties of England & Wales' which shows it is a plate for this well-known multi-volume work of 1801-15 by E. W. Brayley and John Britt
1 August 1815
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Confiante - May 31st 1798. This is a naval battle scene depicting port, broadside views of the French 36-gun corvette La Confiante on the left of the picture and, slightly to stern, the British 38-gun frigate HMS Hydra, on the right of the p
1 Aug 1816
National Maritime Museum
Monument erected in St Paul's Cathedral to the memory of Admiral Earl Howe. Frontispiece to the European Magazine, Vol 74. Admiral Earl Howe earned the dubious nickname 'Black Dick' because he was said never to smile unless a battle was abo
1 Aug 1818
National Maritime Museum
The Right Honourable Robert Earl & Viscount Yarmouth Baron of Baston Lord Lieutenant Vic & Admiral of the County of Norfolk. Print
1 Aug 1819
National Maritime Museum
Ovington near Brighton. A hand coloured aquatint of Ovington taken from Daniell's series of prints titled 'A Voyage Around Great Britain'. A view of Ovington seen from a hill. There is a large, walled country house in the centre surrounde
1 Aug 1823
National Maritime Museum
Peter Rainier Esqr Admiral of the Blue from an original Picture in the possession of the Honble Basil Cochrane Engraved by C Turner for Capt Brenton's Naval History. Print
1 Aug 1824
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping in Portsmouth Harbour, Drawn and Etched by Henry Moses. Aurora, Queen Charlotte, Ganges. Print
1 Aug 1825
National Maritime Museum
Sir Francis Drake OB 1596 From The Original in The Collection of The Most Noble The Marquis of Lothian. Print
1 Aug 1829
National Maritime Museum
Return of the Experimental Squadron from the second Cruize Augt. 2. 1827. Plate No.4. Print
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.1. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.2. Hand-coloured.
[Wrong image: this is a Spanish Armada print, not PAD7986]
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.3. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.4. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.5. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses. Plate No.6. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Six views of the Columbine and The Experimental Squadron. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Moses.. Album of hand-coloured bound prints PAD7985 - PAD7990. Album cover is loose.
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
The Columbine coming to an Anchor. Plate 5. Coloured aquatint. Starboard view of the 18-gun barque, HMS Columbine (1826), coming to anchor against a background of grey skies and a low headland. She is still partially underway facing into a stiff breeze
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
The Experimental Squadron refitting at Spithead. Plate No.2. Print
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
The Experimental Squadron returning from the first Cruise, May 25 1827. Plate No.1. Print
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
The Yacht ['Royal Sovereign'] sailing from Portsmouth with Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence on board to view the Russian Squadron. Augt 8th 1827. Technique includes etching. This relates to the oil painting attributed to Moses also in
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
View of the Challenge one of the Experimental Squadron with the Columbine in the distance. Plate No.6. Print
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth In the year 1827, with Views of the Russian Squadron, by Henry Moses. Plate [?]: The Yacht ['Royal Sovereign'] sailing from Portsmouth with Her Royal Highness
1 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum