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).
Action between H.B.M.S. Vinceio John Wesley Wright Esqr, Commander, and a numerous French flotilla, off Quiberon on the Coast of France 7th May 1804. Print
30 Dec 1815
National Maritime Museum
Alexander Dalrymple Esqr late Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Plate CCCCLVI. Engraved by Blood (with the Permission of Mr Asperne Proprieter of the European Magazine) from An Original Drawing by John Brown. Print
30 Mar 1816
National Maritime Museum
Private William Lewis 469, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died 30 April 1817
Lives of the First World War
Needham's Point, Carlisle Bay, Barbados. Vignette.; PL. CCCCXCVII.
30 Nov 1817
National Maritime Museum
Expedition driven into the ice 30th July 1818. Drawing for F W Beechey's account of Buchan's voyage toward the North Pole, 1818. London 1843. Drawing
1843
National Maritime Museum
The Expedition Driven into the Ice, July 30th 1818. Monochrome print. Technique includes engraving.; Mounted with PAD6116, PAD6118. View of the three-masted HM Sloop Dorothea, closely reefed with only three sails set, being swept by high waves towards bre
1843
National Maritime Museum
Captain John Toup Nicolas. C.B. K.C. St. F and S. Plate DXXI. Print
30 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
Study of a singing beggar. Mounted with PAE6598-PAE6600, PAE6602-PAE6604.
30 Oct 1821
National Maritime Museum
Fishing Peterboat with tarpaulin covered deck shelter and figures, moored near buildings. Medium includes graphite.
30 Nov 1824
National Maritime Museum
Ships in Portsmouth Harbour, 1825. No. 16 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right 'In Portsmouth harbour Augst 30th 1825' and annotated with the names of the ships, from left to right 'Prince 110 Guns, Illustrious 74
30 August 1825
National Maritime Museum
His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence Lord High Admiral of England this Portrait is Gratuitously Presented to the Subscriber of ' Weekly Times'. Hand-coloured.
30 Sep 1827
National Maritime Museum
Searching an English ship in the Dardanelles - or our faithful Ally showing his respect for the British Flag (caricature). Hand-coloured.
30 May 1829
National Maritime Museum
Two views of a beach capstan, dismantled. Brighton, July 30 1829. Mounted with PAE5444-PAE5445, PAE5447.
30 Jul 1829
National Maritime Museum
Napoleon musing at St Helena, from the original picture in the possession of J Kearsey Esq to whom this print is respectfully dedicated by his grateful Friend. Technique includes etching.
30 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Folkestone from the pier, low water, Sept 30 1830. original art: drawing
30 Sep 1830
National Maritime Museum
Starling (1829). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck with fore & aft platforms for the Starling (1829), a Cutter, as converted to a two-masted Schooner and fitted for surveying duties. Signed Robert Blake [Maste
30 December 1835
National Maritime Museum
View on the Thames, Shewing Goding's New Lion Ale Brewery, The Wharfs, Shot Factories, and the Lambeth end of Waterloo Bridge. Proof. Hand-coloured.
30 Dec 1836
National Maritime Museum
Rudder of the Royal George 30th May 1840. Drawn with the Camera Lucida for Miss Emma Codrington By Capt Basil Hall Ret. Drawing
30 May 1840
National Maritime Museum
The Hon. E.I. Co Iron Steam Ship Nemesis, Lieut. W.H.Hall, R.N. Commander, with boats of Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling destroying the Chinese war junks, in Anson's Bay, Jany 7th 1841.... Hand-coloured. The iron steam ship 'Nemesis'
30 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
The Hon. E.I. Co. Iron Steam Ship Nemesis, ... with boats of Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying the Chinese War Junks, in Anson's Bay, Jany 7th 1841 (Chuenpee near Canton). This image shows one of the actions in the First Opium War. On
30 May 1843
National Maritime Museum
Shrimper ashore. Leeboard reversed. Mounted with PAE5983, PAE5985-PAE5986.
30 Aug 1843
National Maritime Museum
Fishing boat with details of gear, inscr 'Alassio. Sept 30'. Mounted with PAE5640-PAE5641, PAE5643-PAE5644.
30 Sep 1845
National Maritime Museum
Old and modified method of fitting tillers to Steamships of 950 tons and upwards (1846). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the elevation and plan of the new and old method of fitting the tiller to Steamships of 950 tons and upwards.
30 December 1846
National Maritime Museum
'Teriitaria or Ariapaia [Teri’i tari’a II Ari’i' paea], Queen of Huahine, Augt 30th 1849' [Society Islands]. No. 18 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as
30 August 1849
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Trial of sailing off Cape de Galta [Cabo de Gata], 30 July 1852, 'Trafalgar' and 'Terrible' in the foreground; (Verso) the island of Zembra, near Cape Bon, Tunisia, 2 September 1852. No. 24 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto)
July - September 1852
National Maritime Museum
Launch of HMS Royal Albert screw steamer, 131 guns, at Woolwich, May 13, 1854. Bow view. The screw steamer 'Royal Albert' was one of the last major warships to be built at Woolwich Dockyard. She was launched on 13 May 1854 by Queen Victoria with
30 May 1854
National Maritime Museum
'30 Dec. (12)'. This watercolour by Edward Lear, executed on 30 December 1853, shows the barren banks of the Nile with three gyassis, two of which are heavily laden with straw. Figures and animals can be seen in the background against the low su
30 December 1853
National Maritime Museum
Drawing of burning town inscribed Tribune off Sevastopol 30th Sept 1855', showing Fort St Nicholas, Fort Alexander and (illegible). Bound with PAG3512-PAG3516, PAG3518-PAG3625 with PAG3591, PAG3623 and PAG3624 loose from the album.; Medium includes g
Sep 1855
National Maritime Museum
Her Majesty's Gun Boat Cracker passing the Kinburn Batteries, October 15th 1855. Print
30 Jan 1856
National Maritime Museum
'Fortress of Monjuich [Montjuïc], Barcelona, July 30th 1857' [Spain]. No. 19 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The seventh of a series of drawings of t
30 July 1857
National Maritime Museum
Towers at Barcelona, one square supported by four round towers...Numbered 2. Cooke made numerous trips throughout Europe and North Africa. In 1860, in company with Robert Bateman, he undertook a journey around Spain towards Tangier. A new, more luminous q
30 October 1860
National Maritime Museum
Immortalite Ariadne 30 Mar 1861. A pencil sketch of the moored Ariadne, stern view, and the Immortalite, port side, stern quarter. The Ariadne has loading booms extended on port and starboard sides of the bows. The coastline is visible in the background.
30 Mar 1861
National Maritime Museum
Inscr ' Greek Brig entering the Port ', Venice dated 30 Oct 1862. original art: drawing
30 Oct 1862
National Maritime Museum
Een rechthoekige houten stoof met snijwerk, met koperen kopspijkers versierd en een koperen hengsel.
30 April 1863
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen
Telegram from Nevada Territory Governor Nye to President Abraham Lincoln, 10/30/1864
Taken 30 Oct 1864
The U.S. National Archives
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth at the stern of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes plan views of the corresponding parts of the main deck and uppe
30 November 1864
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth at the stern of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes plan views of the corresponding parts of the main deck and uppe
30 November 1864
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'La mode illustrée' 1866-12-30
30 December 1866
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
'Shetaal 30 Jany. 1867 (271)'. This sketch of the Nile by Edward Lear was taken on 30 January 1867 during the artist’s third visit to Egypt. It shows a traditional Egyptian cargo vessel crowded with a large number of people sailing along t
30 January 1867
National Maritime Museum
Porträtt av Reinhold Magnus Svartling, löjtnant vid Livregementets husarkår K 3.
30 August 1869
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Sketch of rocks with sea and hills beyond. North side of cove in Dooagh promontory (continued from PAF9461). Bound with PAF9440-PAF9461, PAF9463-PAF9467.
30 Sep 1869
National Maritime Museum
prent (niet in kleur) uit 'La mode illustrée' 1870-01-30
30 January 1870
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Royal Thames Yacht Club Schooner Match, June 5th 1869 Running Down - The Leading Vessels nearing the Mouse Lightship ( Gloriana and Alexandra). Hand-coloured.
30 Jun 1870
National Maritime Museum
prent (niet in kleur) uit 'La mode illustrée' 1870-10-30
30 October 1870
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen