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).
Major Walter Harry Nichols , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Nurse Mabel E Chadwick, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of enteric fever contracted on duty in Egypt 15 October 1915.
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Mabel Elizabeth Chadwick 5719, Voluntary Aid Detachment, 17th General Hospital
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Thomas Beck 70392. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1915 Western Front
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Frederick Picking 9126, South Wales Borderers
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank King 1234. Unit: D Company, 23rd Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Son of Arthur William and Christina King. Born at Collingwood, Victoria.
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Fred Turton 32665. Unit: 8th Platoon, BCompany, 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 15 October 1915 Missing in action Western Frotn
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Herbert James Streeter 8972, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Douglas Alexander Simpson. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1915 Died of wounds received in action in France Western Front
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Verkauf von Baumrinde und Gallapfel - Székesfehérvár - In ungarischer Sprache
15 October 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed.
Taken 15 Oct 1916
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Killed in action at Gueudecourt Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916, missing, Gueudecourt, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepv
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal William E R Braddock 4744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Ertrag der Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Wien
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Lilienfeld
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Lieutenant Hubert Edmund Backhouse , Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major Edmund Rochfort Street DSO. Unit: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Edmund Rochfort Street, D.S.O. , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alan Gascoigne 20717, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Thomas Hogan 1660. Unit: 55th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Charles Nicholls 10967, Essex Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George H Thompson 30067, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Christopher St George 5599, South African Infantry Battalion
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Booth Lister S/23831. Unit: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1916 Wounded and Missing Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Laurence Millais Kinsley. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 15 October 1916 wounded and missing at Guendecourt, Western Front. Son of Albert and Eliza Kinsley, of 46, Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Company Serjeant Major Alex Bessant 11614, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Anthony Percival MID. Unit: 95th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, transferred to 14th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in 1915. Death: 15 October 1917 Western Front
Died 15 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur John Young 28497, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Daniel Joseph 11308, British West Indies Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Dennis G Aston 42298, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Harold Fuller S/28579, Rifle Brigade
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Doughty 14279, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Haywood 23661, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Silvester Hamriding Martin 3971, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Robert Spratt 6484, Nigeria Regiment (Attached from South Wales Borderers) - West African Frontier F
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
THE OCCUPATION OF THE RUSSIAN PARTITION OF POLAND BY THE CENTRAL POWERS, 1915-1918
15 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Chief Motor Mechanic Howard Samuel Beresford MB/2684, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Commander Evan Campbell Bunbury. Unit: His Majesty's Coastal Motor Boat No 71A, Director of Transport and Movements Department, Admiralty. Death: 15 October 1918 At Sea
Died 15 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Athol Davaar Lamont M14927, HM Submarine J6
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Robert Masson S/28707, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Price 253480, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Thomas Hiron 50762, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Albert Jones 67600, Cheshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War