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).
Captain Frederick Forster. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914, Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Jonathan Edward Knowles. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Kenneth James Roy MID. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Oswald Bethell Walker. Unit: 15th Battalion, (The Kings) Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action during the retreat from Mons. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Walter Richard Augustus Aston Dawes. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Walton Mellor. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Corporal A Rogers L/7281. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Everard Cecil Smith. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Killed at Nimy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Harold Martin Soames. Unit: 20th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed while on reconnaissance duty near Binche, in Belgium Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Jervis Moore Tylee. Unit: 15th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Rothes Marlow Wilkinson. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Approximate date. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth Parnell Henstock. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action at Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Maurice James Dease VC. Unit: Machine Gun Officer, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914 Died of wounds at Nimy near Mons Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Charles Stewart Holland. Unit: 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major John Southern Maidlow. Unit: Commanding 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major William Henry Abell. Unit: 4th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Obourg Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Pepys. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Joseph Frederick Mead. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Neville Lascelles Ward. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action leading a charge at Boussy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Alexander Ashford 19477. Unit: "A" Battery, 100th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1916, Macedonia. Buried at the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Walter Francis Butt 7841. Unit: 22nd Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Langridge 3346. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 From gas poisoning Western Front
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Haliburton Fynmore 628. Unit: "C" Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Woolf Fisher 4518/266755. Unit: 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Benjamin Alfred Jemesen 3115. Unit: 9th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major J Naismith photographed leaving Buckingham Palace having received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), 23 August 1917.
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Archibald Donald S/21165. Unit: 10th Platoon, C Company, 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 23 August 1917 Missing in action Western Front.
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Miller 25996. Unit: 6th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 August 1917 Western Front
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Daniel Creese 40490. Unit: 11th Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 23 August 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant William Gill 234085. Unit: 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 23 August 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Peter Clement Layard. Unit: 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 23 August 1918, Gommecourt, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1918
Imperial War Museum