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).
Sir James Lancaster, 1554/5-1618. Lancaster was brought up in Portugal as a merchant and soldier, but returned to England in 1587. He thereafter became a trusted employee of the London merchant Thomas Cordell, commanding his merchant ship ‘Edward
1596
National Maritime Museum
44ft Chain boat (1787). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, section, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and deck plan for a single-masted forty-four foot chain boat for Deptford Dockyard.
Signed by John Henslow [Surveyo
16 May 1787
National Maritime Museum
Symptoms of not having been often to Church (caricature). Hand-coloured.
16 May 1823
National Maritime Museum
(Ten verses) Written May 16th 1830, the thirtieth anniversary of Samuel Codner's preservation from shipwreck, on board the ship Mercury. Print
16 May 1830
National Maritime Museum
Slight sketch of the mountains of Berenice (coast of Nubia). Mounted in album with PAI0767-PAI808, PAI0810-PAI0848.; Heightened with white.; No.22.
16 May 1848
National Maritime Museum
Land and Negroes for Sale. A poster advertising the sale of four tracts of land as a result of a court case. Four slaves are also listed: Frederick aged about 50, Susan aged 25, Wesley aged 10 and Elijah aged 16.
16 May 1855
National Maritime Museum
Gezicht op de Place Vendôme te Parijs, met de resten van de neergehaalde Colonne Vendôme
16 May 1871
Rijksmuseum
Gezicht op de resten van de neergehaalde Colonne Vendôme op de Place Vendôme te Parijs
16 May 1871
Rijksmuseum
Technical Sergeant Thomas Whitfield. Flight Engineer, 486th Bomb Group.
Died 16 May 1905
American Air Museum
A few of those whom Illinois has contributed to New York's company of influential men (LOC)
Taken 16 May 1909
The Library of Congress
Acting Serjeant Arthur Thomas 9593, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Allan James Lawrie. Unit: 6th Battalion (Territ.) The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 16 May 1915 At Laventie Flanders Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Francis Ward was born in 1884. After joining the Army, he served with the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery in South Africa and India prior to the First World War. He was killed by a sniper on 16 May 1915, aged 31. He was
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Fergus Hamilton Reid MID. Unit: 59th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis Hugh Beaufort. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 16 May 1915 Richebourg l'Avoue Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis James Ogilvie Mackinnon. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harold Bickley Drewe Hughes. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 16 May 1915, killed in action by shrapnel at La Bassee, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memo
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harry Hastings Grigg. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 16 May 1915, Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Agnew Lang Browne. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Surrey Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 At Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Stanley Jones. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front. Son of General Sir Howard Sutton Jones, K.C.B., and Lady Jones, of Mona House, Uplyme, Devon.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Blyth Fuller. Unit: 2nd Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915, Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal John Reginald Webb 2483, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Driver James Herbert Cowshall 13141, Royal Field Artillery 12th Div 35th Brigade Ammunition Column
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal James Anderson Boyes 7915, Highland Light Infantry
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Reginald Taffs. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion (Attached 1st Battalion), Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action near Richebourg Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Skirving Woolery Moffat. Unit: 1st attached 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Ironside Wood CMG. Unit: Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in Action at Festubert while leading his Battalion into action. Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Denys George Stephenson. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action near Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ewins Charles Marlborough Crosse , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Geoffrey Bury Ramsbotham MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion (Reserve), Royal Sussex Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Hubert Cohen. Unit: 5th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front. Son of Louis and May Cohen, of Liverpool.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hugh Owen. Unit: A Company, 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Gardiner McCormick. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Mackenzie. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth Alexander Gemmell. Unit: 10th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915, Bellevaard, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Laurence Kingston Adams. Unit: A Company, 7th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Cread Sheay. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wale’s Own). Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William La Nauze. Unit: 4th (Extra Reserve) attached , 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 16 May 1915 At Ypres Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Arthur Hughes. Unit: 7th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915, killed in action, Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick George Rushton 9692, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick John Marshman 10562, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private James Percival TEARE 1730, Kings Liverpool Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Shepherd 14/835, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Leslie Herbert Fereday 2434, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald George Collis 8270, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas George Leslie Haughton 2778, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William F Connolly 1547, King's (Liverpool) Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William George Turnock 2505, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William John Davis 10235, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Stenning 5101. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 16 May 1915 Wounded and MIA at Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary) Lionel Albert Dashwood. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary) Maurice Henry De Rougemont. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alan Menzies Hiller. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915, killed in action at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alexander Noel Hepburne-Scott. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, 7th Division. Death: 16 May 1915, missing in action, Festubert, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alfred Douglas Wingate. Unit: Indian Army Unattached List, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Commanded the Bomb-throwers Section.. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in Action attacking the German trenches near Richebourg-l
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Daniel George Mark Robinson. Unit: Indian Army, Unattached List, aatched to 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Shot through head at Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Denys George Stephenson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Dudley Francis Humphreys. Unit: Attached 2nd Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Wounded 15 May 1915 at Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Marsham-Townshend. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards.. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Edmund Langton Riddle , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Francis Edmund Langton Riddle. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Galbraith Morten. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kings, Liverpool Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Richebourg L’Avoue Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Jerome Lynch. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 16 May 1915 At Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Jervoise Graham Tayler. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Attached to 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Brown Savage , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Stephen Harvey James. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 16 May 1915 Battle of Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Torrington Morris , 1st Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 16 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Leslie Arnott Paterson. Unit: 3rd Battalion (Reserve), The Essex Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Martin Frederick Heath-Caldwell. Unit: Chestnut Troop, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 16 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front. Younger son of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. F. C. Heath-Caldwell, of Linley Wood, Talke, Stoke-on-Trent.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Nicolas Adolf Krohn. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Reginald Moon Goodman. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915, near Festubert, Western Front.
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sidney Barclay Blair. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas McClelland. Unit: 7th Battalion (Territorial), The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 16 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 16 May 1915
Imperial War Museum