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).
Christmas Eve, Bethlehem : Franciscan monks ringing the bells at midnight in the Church of the Nativity
26 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Amos Bailey 19604, 95th Siege Battery Royal Artillery
Died 26 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Edward Edgington 426553, 935th Area Employment Coy. Labour Corps
Died 26 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Wellington Pilkington 14959, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 26 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Abside d\'une église orthodoxe, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 077
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Angle sud de l\'enceinte avec la mosquée Al-Aksa, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 061 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Angle sud de l\'enceinte avec la mosquée al-Aksa, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 062 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bâb el Silseleh (Porte de la Chaîne), Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 071 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bâb el Silseleh (Porte de la Chaîne), Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 072 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Birket Mamillah (citerne de Mamillah), Ouest de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 078
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Entrée de la citadelle par la Porte de David (vue de l\'intérieur ?), Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 054 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Entrée de la citadelle par la Porte de David (vue de l\'intérieur ?), Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 055 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Entrée de la citadelle par la Porte de David, dite Porte de Sion, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 053 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Entrée de la citadelle par la Porte de David, dite Porte de Sion, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 056 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Façade d\'une église orthodoxe, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 076
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hospice Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Ouest de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 079
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La banque de Rome près des fossés de l\'enceinte de la porte de David, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 075
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La mosquée Al-Aksa derrière les remparts de la ville, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 059 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La mosquée Al-Aksa derrière les remparts de la ville, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 060 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le cimetière juif, Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 063 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le cimetière juif, Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 064 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le cimetière musulman près de Birket Mamillah, Environs de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 69 083 X
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Quartier juif de la vieille ville, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 069
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Remparts sud de la vieille ville, Environ de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 057 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Remparts sud de la vieille ville, Environs de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 058 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Second Lieutenant Francis Robert Aerts 301936, 5th London Regiment
Died 26 December 1919
Lives of the First World War
Tombeau dit d\'Absalon (Yav Avshalom), Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 065 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Tombeau dit d\'Absalon (Yav Avshalom), Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 066 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Tombeaux dits de Saint Jacques et de Zacharie, Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 067 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Tombeaux dits de Saint Jacques et de Zacharie, Est de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 068 S
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Un partie du quartier juif, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 070
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une boucherie et un maraîcher dans le quartier de la colonie américaine, Nord de Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 074
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une rue de la vieille ville, Jérusalem, Palestine, A 20 073
26 décembre 1919
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Engineer Commander Harry Croad Read , H.M.S. "Vivid."
Died 26 December 1920
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Craig 5120, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 26 December 1920
Lives of the First World War
Colonne de Julien et hammam en arrière-plan, Angora, Turquie, A 37 018
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Colonne de Julien et hammam en arrière-plan, Angora, Turquie, A 37 019
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hayati Bey, chef du Cabinet de Mustapha Kemal (bâtiment de la Grande Assemblée Nationale), Angora, Turquie, A 37 016 S
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Les Ministres du Conseil (bâtiment de la Grande Assemblée Nationale, Angora, Turquie, A 37 015 S
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Salle de Conseil des Ministres dans le bâtiment de la Grande Assemblée Nationale, Angora, Turquie, A 37 011
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Un Ministre en Conseil (bâtiment de la Grande Assemblée Nationale), Angora, Turquie, A 37 012 S
26 décembre 1922
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Gilbert Bloch, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 45 033
26 décembre 1924
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Gilbert Bloch, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 45 034
26 décembre 1924
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Tugboat ANTARCTIC during the 1925 Pittwater Regatta
Taken 26 Dec 1925
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Stephen Massey Poyntz , Training Centre
Died 26 December 1934
Lives of the First World War
Private Ivor Bertie Gurney 241281, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 26 December 1937
Lives of the First World War
Sinking of the Scharnhorst, 26 December 1943. A representation of the sinking of the German battleship, 'Scharnhorst', created as an assignment for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. After she had made two unsuccessful attempts to attack
1944
National Maritime Museum
BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY MARSHALLING YARDS FIGHTER SWEEPS MARSHALLING YARDS RAIL BRIDGE MARSHALLING YARDS COMMUNICATIONS CENTER RAIL BRIDGE.
Locations: ANDERNACH BONN NEUWIED NEUWIED NIEDERLAHNSTEIN SINZIG SINZIG
Mission date: 26 December 1944
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant John Griffin. Pilot, P-38 Model J-15, 370th Fighter Group. John V. "Jack" Griffin was the oldest son of George Joseph Griffin and Irene Margaret Bailey Griffin. His sister, Patricia Griffin Burch, refers to him as "the han
Died 26 December 1944
American Air Museum
Private Ernest Moulds 23362, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 December 1950
Lives of the First World War
[Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Diesel Electric Switcher No. 26]
Taken 26 Dec 1960
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Gunner Joseph Henry Haigh 123203, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 26 December 1967
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Leonard Hawkins 185021, Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 December 1968
Lives of the First World War
Staff Sergeant Orval Reeder. Tail Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down at Madgeburg on 9/11/44 in B-24 #4295258
POW
1942 USAAF Serial Numbers
2-95023/95288
Ford B-24H-25-FO Liberator - c/n 1788/2053
Pilot: First
Died 26 December 1969
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Robert Atkinson. Top Turret Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #42-97372. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew report #4349.
POW
Died 26 December 1972
American Air Museum
Private-- Battalion Runner Leonard Burke MM 24442, West Riding Regiment
Died 26 December 1973
Lives of the First World War
Round the World Race: the 'Great Britain II' and 'Kriter II' in the Tasman Sea, 26 December 1975. Painting.
1976
National Maritime Museum