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All 5441American Air Museum
American Air Museum 234
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 718
Sjöhistoriska museet 175
Kulturarv Västernorrland 155
Vänersborgs museum 148
Rijksmuseum 65
Bohusläns museum 45
Örebro läns museum 29
Tekniska museet 25
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 24
Flygvapenmuseum 19
Miliseum 14
Marinmuseum 11
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 10
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 6
Historisch Museum Ede 5
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 3
CODA Museum 2
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 2
Upplandsmuseet 2
Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár 1
Ajuntament de Girona 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 20
State Library of New South Wales collection 17
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 17
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 11
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 11
State Library and Archives of Florida 10
NASA on The Commons 9
bibliothequedetoulouse 8
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 7
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 6
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 5
State Library of Queensland, Australia 4
UW Digital Collections 4
Australian War Memorial collection 4
MissouriStateArchives 3
The Library of Congress 2
Royal Australian Historical Society 2
National Library of Norway 2
National Archives of Estonia 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 1388
Imperial War Museums
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 297
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 173
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 173
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 165
Other 81
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 41
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 36
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 24
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 19
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 12
Womens War Work 10
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 8
Admiralty Official Collection 8
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 8
War Office Second World War Official Collection 7
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 6
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 5
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 4
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 4
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 4
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June - July 1918 3
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 3
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 July 1918 3
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 3
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 September 1917 2
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 2
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 2
Belfast Telegraph Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses General 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June 1918 2
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 2
Pitman Thomas Tait (major-general) Collection 2
The Royal Navy 1914 - 1918 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 1
First World War Womens War Work Collection 1
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August 1918 1
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 1
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 1
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 1
Robson Harold Burge (hon) Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 December 1917 - February 1918 1
British Aircraft And Early Aircraft In Other Museums And Institutions 1913 - 1918 (gsa 129) 1
Prytyåš Wåadysåaw Jacek Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 1
Ministry Of Information First World War Unofficial Collection 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August - September 1917 1
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 1
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 878
National Maritime Museum
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 103
Prints & Drawings 80
Oil Paintings 10
Coins & Commemorative Medals 2
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 2
Miscellaneous Antiquities 2
Glass 1
Charts & Maps 1
Historic Photographic Negatives 1
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1889 1
1890 1
1893 2
1895 1
1897 5
1898 1
1901 1
1903 2
1904 6
1907 3
1908 1
1909 3
1910 4
1911 2
1912 5
1913 1
1915 5
1916 2
1917 3
1918 10
1921 2
1924 6
1925 1
1926 1
1931 1
1932 1
1934 2
1935 5
1936 5
1937 3
1938 2
1939 9
1940 4
1942 1
1944 1
1945 1
1946 1
1948 4
1950 1
1952 2
1953 1
1957 1
1958 1
1959 1
1960 1
1961 3
1962 2
1963 2
1965 1
1966 13
1968 4
1969 1
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).
