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).
Voyages to the East Indies 1600. Map of the city of Macao, 30 July 1603. Text in Latin on reverse.; Plate XII.
1607
National Maritime Museum
The Relief of Barcelona, 30 April 1706. This shows an incident during the War of Spanish Succession, 1702-14. After the British capture of Gibraltar in 1704, Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell and his joint commander-in-chief, the Earl of Peterborough, took B
1713
National Maritime Museum
A Geometrical Plan, & North East Elevation Of His Majesty's Dock Yard, at Deptford, with Part of the Town &c. PAI5606 is another copy taken in colour image. A geometrical plan and north east elevation of the dockyard at Deptford including le
30 Jul 1753
National Maritime Museum
A Geometrical Plan, & North East Elevation Of His Majesty's Dock-Yard at Deptford, with Part of the Town, &c. For notes see PAJ3961, another copy. This one is a colour image from a more stained copy, with a slightly wider photo crop including
30 Jul 1753
National Maritime Museum
Boreas (1757); Trent (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarter deck, forecastle, and section through the deck at the cathead for Boreas (1757) and Trent (1757), both fir-built 28-gun Frigates building at Woolwich Dockyard.
30 June 1757
National Maritime Museum
Supply (1759). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Supply (1759), a Transport.
Circa April 1759
National Maritime Museum
'Hayling' (1760). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and scroll head, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for 'Hayling' (1760), a single-masted sixty-six foot timber
30 August 1759
National Maritime Museum
The Fishery. To Sir John Hart...Consul General at Lisbon This Plate is inscribed.... Print
30 Jun 1768
National Maritime Museum
Halifax Dockyard - Plan and view of the naval yard at Halifax, Nova Scotia.. Plan and view of the naval yard at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Plan addressed to Hon. Hugh Pallaiser, appointed Comptroller of the Navy in 1770.
1771-09-30
National Maritime Museum
John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrook, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty.... Print
30 Aug 1774
National Maritime Museum
'A Marine & Seaman fishing off the Anchor on board the Pallas in Senegal Road, Jany 75' [Bray album]. No. 38 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)
Titled, dated and signed at the bottom, on the backing paper 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel B
29 -30 January 1775
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 56ft single-masted Sloops (Circa 1776). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, upper deck, and fore & aft platforms for building two 56ft single-masted Armed Sloops on Lake Champla
30 January 1776
National Maritime Museum
51ft Well Boat (1777). Scale: 1:38.4. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and deck plan for a proposed single-masted fifty-one foot well boat (1777). A copy was sent to Plymouth Dockyard in 1777 f
30 October 1776
National Maritime Museum
Captn Thos Forrest. Aetat 50 Midn in the Navy in 1745. Technique includes etching.
30 Jan 1779
National Maritime Museum
The Honourable Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Portland. Framed mezzotint entitled "The Honourable Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Portland".
30 March 1779
National Maritime Museum
Representation of the Distressed Situation of His majesty's Ship Ulysses.... when Dismasted in the Hurricane August 1st 1781, and narrowly escaped being Wrecked on the South side of Jamaica. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
Representation of the distressed situation of his Majesty's Ships Hector and Bristol when dismasted in the Great Hurricane, Oct 6th 1780.... the Hector's Guns were thrown overboard to prevent the ship foundering. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
Representation of the Distressed Situation of His Majesty's Ships Ruby, Hector, Berwick and Bristol when Dismasted in the Great Hurricane October 6th 1780. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
Representation of the unfortunate Loss of His Majesty's Ship Stirling Castle... after having been dismasted in the Great Hurricane Octr 6th 1780.... was wrecked near the Silver Keys, off the NE end of Island Hispaniola. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
To Sir Peter Parker Bart.... Pomona and Ulysses when dismasted in the Great Hurricane Oct 6th 1780 in the Mona Passage. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
To Sir Peter Parker... This Representation of the distressed situation of his Majesty's Ship Egmont... when dismasted in the Great Hurricane, Oct 6th, 1780 near the Island St Lucia... by... Willm Elliott. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
To Sir Peter Parker... This Representation of the distressed situation of his Majesty's Ships Hector and Bristol when dismasted in the Great Hurricane, Octr 6th, 1780... by... Willm Elliott. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
To Sir Peter Parker.... Egmont Robt Fanshawe Esqr, Commander, when dismasted in the Great Hurricane October 11th 1780 near the Island St Lucia. Print
30 Apr 1784
National Maritime Museum
21 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail for a 21 ft Yawl.
Annotations dated: 19 June and 30 August 1794
National Maritime Museum
The Sailor's Farewell (caricature). Text in English below image.; Plate No. 348.
30 Nov 1795
National Maritime Museum
North Country (Merchant) Shipping in a calm off Flamborough Head. Print
30 Mar 1797
National Maritime Museum
Escape of HMS 'Clyde' from the Nore mutiny, 30 May 1797. During the mutiny at the Nore, off Sheerness, which followed on from that at Spithead, only two ships' captains managed to maintain some control of their commands. One of these was C
1830
National Maritime Museum
HMS 'Clyde' Arriving at Sheerness After the 'Nore' Mutiny, 30 May 1797. During the mutiny at the Nore, off Sheerness, which followed on from that at Spithead, only two ships' captains managed to maintain some control of their comm
1830
National Maritime Museum
The Rt. Honble Baron Nelson of the Nile & Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue - K.B. Print
30 Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
The capture of the 'Guillaume Tell', 30 March 1800. 'The capture of the ''Guillaume Tell'', 30 March 1800' by Arthur Ackland Hunt.
1888-9
National Maritime Museum
The Capture of the ‘Guillaume Tell’, 30 March 1800. A painting detailing the capture of the ‘Guillaume Tell’. She is shown on the left of the painting, with her last mast, the mizzen, falling forward over the starboard side, her en
1835
National Maritime Museum
The Rt. Honble, Earl St Vincent. Admiral of the Blue and Commander in Chief of the Channel Fleet. Print
30 Apr 1800
National Maritime Museum
The Blowing up of the Boyne, a 98 Gun Ship, at Spithead, May 1st 1795. Image of the Boyne engulfed in flames, as the crew jump into the sea, some of them being helped onto boats or hanging onto floating ship fragments.The Boyne was in action in the West I
30 Sep 1800
National Maritime Museum
Battle of Copenhagen 30 March 1801 He British fleet in the Sound (with key). Medium includes gouache.; Signed by artist and dated.
1804
National Maritime Museum
A Venetian Galleon 1564 and A ship belonging to the Spanish Armada (Galleys 11). Vol II. Page 24. (Charnock).
30 Mar 1802
National Maritime Museum
View of the Wolverne, armed according to a new method proposed by Capt Schank. Vol.III page 367.
30 Mar 1802
National Maritime Museum
Mr Henry Greathead's Life Boat going out to assist a Ship in distress. Stuck within album PAI2861 with PAI2862-PAI2949, PAI2951-PAI3061. Mounted on page with PAI2949.
30 Apr 1803
National Maritime Museum
Sir Nathaniel Dance, Knt. Commander of the Earl Camden, in the service of the Honble East India Company, and Commodore of the China Fleet, in the Year 1804. Print
30 Nov 1804
National Maritime Museum
An English sailor at a French Eating House (caricature). Hand-coloured.
30 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Fairburn's Plan of Lord Nelson's Victory over the Combined Fleet, off Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. Plan of Attack, Chart, Lord Nelson's attack (three images). Text in English below image.
30 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Nelson & Bronte. Honor est a nilo. Palmam qui meruit ferat. Print
30 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Plan of the Intended Attack on Cadiz by Lord Keith & Sr. R. Abercromby in 1800. Print
30 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Rt. Hon Lord Nelson. Print, from the 'Universal Magazine', November 1805.
30 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Rt. Hon. Lord Nelson. Print, from the 'Universal Magazine', November 1805.
30 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Aristocrat armed Lugger engaging a French Flotilla, consisting of nine sail. Vignette from the 'Naval Chronicle'.
30 Apr 1806
National Maritime Museum
Jack Bowlings Voyage to the Gretna Green Tabacconist. Mounted with PAG8564.; Hand-coloured.; No.53.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
30 Aug 1806
National Maritime Museum
The True Briton East Indiaman sailing from the Outward bound East India Dock.... Hand-coloured.
30 Jan 1807
National Maritime Museum
The Islands Redonda and Nevis in the West Indies. Vignette. From the 'Naval Chronicle', vol, 19, after p.308, plate 355. The print was published uncoloured.
30 Apr 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Welch Sailor's Mistake or Tars in Conversation (caricature). Hand-coloured.
30 Jun 1808
National Maritime Museum
18 pound Carronade. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing a plan and elevation of an 18 pounder carronade filling to the poop with trucks "for the more easy removing them to the right aft port on the poop".
Note that there is a duplicate of this plan.
Dated 30 July 1808
National Maritime Museum
John Benbow, Esqr. Vice Admiral of the Blue Squadron. Engraved by H R Cook from an original by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the collection of the late Admiral Sir Peter Denis. Technique includes stipple engraving.
30 Sep 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Rt Honble Molyneux Lord Shuldham, Admiral of the White Squadron. Print
30 Jun 1810
National Maritime Museum
The Rt. Honble. Molyneux Lord Shuldham Admiral of the White Squadron. Print
30 Jun 1810
National Maritime Museum
Isle of France No.2. A West View of the Moulin a Pondre, where the British Army halted, 30th Novr 1810. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
HMS Thunderer in a storm off Crookhaven. Vignette from the 'Naval Chronicle', 1812. Pocock's initial preparatory sketch for this print is PAD8829. [PvdM 10/08]
30 Apr 1812
National Maritime Museum
Studies of fishermen and craft, Portsmouth, 1813. No. 20 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
Schetky urged his students to draw everything and to annotate their drawings ‘No doubt you are sketching every day. Now I advise you to make minute studies of every
30 April 1813
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the signing of peace preliminaries May 30 1814. Medal commemorating the signing of peace preliminaries May 30 1814. Obverse: Bust of Emperor Alexander of Russia in uniform (left). Legend: 'ALEXANDER EMP OF ALL THE RUSSIAS.'
1814
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a 26 ft Yawl built at Deptford by Messrs Harper & Wilson, and returned to Portsmouth from the Semiramis (1808), a 36 gun Fifth Rate Fr
Dated: 30 November 1814
National Maritime Museum
Disembarkation of the Troops at Gravesend Bay under the Command of Sir George Collier, R.N. Vignette.
30 Nov 1814
National Maritime Museum
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
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