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).
His Most Gracious Majesty, George the Third. Engraved by H R Cook from an Original Painting for Giffords History of the War. Print
20 Apr 1815
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Nelson mortally wounded on the quarter deck of the Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar. Print
20 Aug 1815
National Maritime Museum
The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England (caricature). Hand-coloured.; No.118.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666..
20 Jan 1818
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of two cows, one standing and one lying down, after Cuyp. Mounted with PAE6546-PAE6550, PAE6552.
20 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
Study of a bulldog. Mounted with PAE6546-PAE6549, PAE6551-PAE6552.
20 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
Speedy (1818). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Speedy (1828), a 6-gun Cutter Tender. Signed Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822], Jospeh Tucker [Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1831], Robert Seppings [Surveyor of th
Dated: 20 June 1821
National Maritime Museum
The Queen's Funeral Procession Passing Through Hammersmith 1818. Print
20 Oct 1821
National Maritime Museum
To James Weddell, Esqr R.N... the brig Jane and cutter Beaufoy on 20th February 1823, bearing up in 74o 15' (Being the highest Southern Latitude ever reached). Hand-coloured. James Weddell's 1822-24 expedition to Antarctica was to find new seali
Oct 1826
National Maritime Museum
32ft Pinnace (1824). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and deck plan with longitudinal half-breadth as proposed for fitting 32ft 14-oared pinnaces of ships-of-the-line with a bow-mounted carronade to traverse the c
20 July 1824
National Maritime Museum
The Kent Indiaman on fire, in the Bay of Biscay. A coloured lithograph by William Daniell, after his painting in the Surrey Infantry Museum (DS45), depicting the burning of the British East Indiaman ‘Kent’ on 28 February 1825 when a casket of
20 May 1825
National Maritime Museum
Proposed iron nippers on chain cables (1827). Scale: 1:3 and 1:24. Plan showing the elevation of the fore part of a flush-deck 18-gun Sloop illustrating the use of the iron nippers on the chain cables, and a diagram of the nipper open, closed, and in sec
20 February 1827
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Navarino, 20 October 1827. An interpretation of a naval battle during the War of Greek Independence, 1821-32. It took place when French, Russian, and British ships destroyed a Turkish or Ottoman-Egyptian fleet in the bay of Navarino - now kn
1828
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Navarino, 20 October 1827. Following the Treaty of London in 1827, the signatories - Britain, France, and Russia - were committed to enforcing peace in the Greek archipelago, where Greek patriots were attempting to throw off Ottoman rule. Gr
1828
National Maritime Museum
The Harriet Earl Belfast's Yacht. Port-broadside view of the Harriet with white cliffs in the background, with a frontal view of the bow of another ship. Hand-coloured.; Signed by artist in plate.; No.13.
Inscribed: 'The Harriet. / Earl Belfast
20 Oct 1827
National Maritime Museum
The Harriet Earl Belfast's Yacht. Port-broadside view of the Harriet with white cliffs in the background, with a frontal view of the bow of another ship. Hand-coloured.; Signed by artist in plate.; No.13.
Inscribed: 'The Harriet. / Earl Belfast
20 Oct 1827
National Maritime Museum
Plan of the Position of the Allied Squadrons and Turkish Fleet. In the Action of the 20th Octr 1827 at Navarino. From a sketch by an Officer of the Dartmouth. Print
20 Nov 1827
National Maritime Museum
A three masted yawl, a two masted yawl and two views of a coble on Yarmouth beach. Mounted with PAE6394.
20 Oct 1828
National Maritime Museum
Proposed heads and urinals for the bow of a 46 gun Frigate. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing an elevation, plan, and section of part of the port bow for a 46 gun Fouth Rate Frigate, illustrating the configuration of the heads, urinals and wash trunk, as propose
20 January 1832
National Maritime Museum
To His most Gracious Majesty King William the 4th, This Plate representing a View of the Island of St Helena, from a Painting in His Majesty's possession...is...inscribed.... Hand-coloured.
20 Apr 1832
National Maritime Museum
'An Emancipated Negro'. Published by Thomas McLean of Haymarket, with later watercolour. This print supported the widely spread notion that emanicipation would lead to starvation. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
May 20, 1833
National Maritime Museum
An Emancipated Negro. Caricature on the issue of emancipation of slaves. The work shows an elderly emaciated ex-slave, clad in leaves, shouting ‘Food!!!’ while chasing an insect.
The idea behind the characature supports the notion that emanc
20 May 1833
National Maritime Museum
Dan buoys on a beach with nets, a basket, spade and long toothed rake, with a sketch of a balloon on reverse. original art: drawing
20 Sep 1833
National Maritime Museum
A West Indiaman in a Storm. Medium includes etching. See also another copy, PAF7715 to which the name 'Protector' as that of the ship was attached as a previous title.
20 Mar 1834
National Maritime Museum
A West Indiaman in a Storm. Technique includes etching. The previous title used for this copy of this print named the ship as 'Protector', but on what grounds this is based is now uncertain. See also PAH0556, another copy with full letterpress.
20 Mar 1834
National Maritime Museum
Peasant head-dresses. Four sketches of elaborate lace caps, a full length figure and three slight sketches of more caps. Mounted with PAE5935.
20 Sep 1836
National Maritime Museum
Violet (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail (and leeboards), and longitudinal half-breadth for Violet (1835), a Tender to HMS Survey Sloop Fairy (1826), as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard by Admiralty Order, 19
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
No VII About 8 A.M. Septr 20th the ice closed with a tremendous pressure.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0258, PAF0260-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
View from Nunwell Down. Comprising Nunwell the ancient seat of the Oglander family - Beyond this, the Town and Harbour of Brading - and in the distance, St Helen's with its Roadstead on the left and Bembridge on the right. Technique includes etching.
20 May 1839
National Maritime Museum
Rover (1853); Musquito (1852); Helena (1843); Pilot (1838); Snake (1832); Cygnet (1840); Rapid (1840). Scale: 1:192. Plan showing the sail plan for First Class Brigs, specifically for Rover (1853), and Musquito (1852), both 16-gun First Class Brigs. Pen
Circa June 1840
National Maritime Museum
A gale in the pack, 20 Jan 1842. Medium includes bodycolour and graphite.
20 Jan 1842
National Maritime Museum
Blackwall Railway Terminus. Print entitled 'Blackwall Railway Terminus'. It shows the low terminus building of the Blackwall line at Green's Brunswick Wharf, designed by W. Tite, F.R.S. The terminus was built on land foming part of the Gree
20 August 1842
National Maritime Museum
The Repulse East Indiaman in East India Dock Basin, Sepr. 25th, 1839. The docks of London had extensive basins at high tide. A basin allowed large numbers of ships to gather together to avoid the delay of going through locks. Dock basins are large docks i
20 Oct 1842
National Maritime Museum
This View of the Successful Attack under Vice Admiral Sir William Parker... and Lieutt. General Sir Hugh Gough... upon the Heights of Chusan, on the 1st of October 1841.... This image is related to the second capture of Chusan, which occurred on 1 October
20 Mar 1843
National Maritime Museum
Engine and Boiler for a Dredger. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the elevation, plan, and section for an engine and boiler proposed to be fitted to a dredger. The engine was originally in the 'Wilberforce' (1840), an iron paddle exploration ship th
20 October 1843
National Maritime Museum
This Plate of the Destruction of the John O'Gaunt...by Captain Warner's Invisible Shell, off Brighton, on Saturday, July 20th 1844. Text in English below image.
Aug 1844
National Maritime Museum
To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria this Print The Signing and Sealing of the Treaty of Nanking...(signed on board H.M.S. Cornwallis 29 August 1842). Mezzotint in wooden frame. Hand-coloured. Medium includes gum arabic.
20 April 1846
National Maritime Museum
The Kestrel R.Y.S. The property of the late Earl of Yarborough (shows yachts Flirt, Xarifa, Camilla and Pearl). Hand-coloured.
20 Oct 1847
National Maritime Museum
The Chinese Junk Keying, Captain Kellet. The first junk that ever rounded the Cape of Good Hope, or appeared in British waters. As she appeared off Gravesend 28th March, 1848, 477 days fom Canton. Hand-coloured.
20 May 1848
National Maritime Museum
'Maitea [Mehetia], Augt 20th 1849' [Society Islands]. No. 11 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The drawing shows Fanshawe's 'Daphne' under sail off wh
20 August 1849
National Maritime Museum
The Bianca Schooner Yacht. R.Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Stored in mount with PAD6544.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum
The Sapphire (M. Gibson Esqre) R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD6562.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum
Bow details inscr 'Riva. Lago di Garda - Aug 20'. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all hi
probably 20 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
Stern view with rudder unshipped, inscr. ' Lago di Garda Boat, Riva. 20 Aug. 1851'. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings
20 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Maeander 44 Guns. Signed by artist in plate. The HMS 'Meander' is shown prominently in the centre-right of the image. A small two-masted is shown in the background to the right of the subject vessel. To the left of the 'Meander'
20 Sep 1853
National Maritime Museum
'Near Ballas. noon. Jany. 20.1854.' (103). This study of a gyassi on the Nile near Ballas was taken on Edward Lear’s second journey to Egypt in 1854. The lateen-rigged traditional cargo vessel is portrayed on calm water with a stretch of b
20 January 1854
National Maritime Museum
Launch of H.M.S. Royal Albert 131 Guns at Woolwich Dockyard Christened by H.M. The Queen 13th May 1854. Print of the Launch of H.M.S. Royal Albert 131 Guns at Woolwich Dockyard.
20 May 1854
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of the Battle of Alma on Sept 20th 1854 M.A. Biddulph, Capt. R.A. Adjt. to 3rd Divn. R.A.. Single sheet. Coloured. lithograph. Linen-backed paper. Ungraduated map. Army positions marked in colour.
1854
National Maritime Museum
Merchant shipping, Arrival and Departure, showing the Blenheim and the Marlborough. Hand-coloured.
20 Oct 1854
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Hannibal 91 Guns... flagship... leaving Anapa, June 12th 1855. Print
20 Feb 1856
National Maritime Museum
The Leviathan (Great Eastern) Steam Ship, Inside and Out (portside view and cross section). A portside view and cross-section of the 'Great Eastern'. Brunel's massive ship - easily the largest of the Victorian age - captured the public imag
20 Jul 1858
National Maritime Museum
To H.H. Kennard, Esq. this Print of his Cutter Yacht Christabel, 48 Tons, In the Start for the Royal Thames Yacht Club 1st Class Match, May 23rd 1862... built by Mr Edwin Aldous, of Brightlingsea, Essex.... Print
20 Mar 1863
National Maritime Museum
Studies of the 'Claymore' yacht, Cowes Roads, 1863. No. 67 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper left corner next to a broadside view of a yacht 'Claymore Yacht/Cowes Roads – 19th July/1863' and in the lower right nex
19-20 July 1863
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of a distant view of Part of the Sierra Nevada and Cape Degatta Aug 20. Bound with PAF8955-PAF8960, PAF8962-PAF8986.
20 Aug 1863
National Maritime Museum
The Route of the Atlantic Telegraph, The Great Eastern Section of the bed of the Atlantic. Hand-coloured.; Exhibition: Submarine Cable Exhibition, Science Museum 1973.
At the top of this print is a map of the route of the cable from Valentia in Ireland to
20 Jul 1865
National Maritime Museum
This View of the Interior of Longstone Lighthouse, Fern Islands, Grace Darling and her parents administering to the unfortunate survivors Saved from the wreck of The Forfarshire Steam Packet on the 7th September, 1838.... The interior of Longstone Lightho
20 Aug 1866
National Maritime Museum
34 ft Admiral's Barge. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 12? oared, 34 ft Admiral's Barge. Signed B. Robinson [Master Shipwright/Chief Constructor, Portsmouth
Dated: 20 June 1871
National Maritime Museum
Colossus (1882); Edinburgh (1882). Scale 1:24. A plan showing a partial midship section and a partial section outside the citadel for the Colossus class turret ships HMS Colossus (1882) and HMS Edinburgh (1882). The plan relates to Edinburgh while she wa
December 1878
National Maritime Museum
Colossus (1882); Edinburgh (1882). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth of the Colossus class turret ships HMS Colossus (1882) and HMS Edinburgh (1882). . The plan relates to Edinburgh while she was still nominal
December 1878
National Maritime Museum
The loss of the Jeannette Separation of the boats during a gale, seven P.M September 12 1881 Illustration from the Graphic Saturday May 20, 1882. Signed by artist.
20 May 1882
National Maritime Museum
Spithead assembly of the fleet 15th to 20th July 1914. Single sheet. Coloured lithograth. Scale: [ca. 1:28,000]. Additional Places: Solent. Ships' positions marked.
1914
National Maritime Museum
HMS Talbot bombarding Turkish Camp at Ibrahim Agha, April 20/15. No 7 in a series of sketches of the Dardanelles/Gallipoli Campaign 1915. Signed by artist and dated.
20 Apr 1915
National Maritime Museum