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;
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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).
[The pursuit to Calais, 4 - 6 August 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:400,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English miles. The chart contains the coats of arms of Queen Eliza
1590
National Maritime Museum
Van de Velde joining the Dutch Fleet 27 August-6 September 1664. In foreground to the right of the centre is a starboard quarter view of van de Velde’s galjoot shown running down towards the fleet which is getting under way in the background. On the
1664
National Maritime Museum
Van de Velde joining the Dutch Fleet, 27 August [OS] / 6 September 1664. Van de Velde joining the Dutch Fleet, 27 August [OS]/ 6 September 1664. On the threat of war with England, the Dutch assembled a large fleet under L.-Admiral J. Van Wassenaer ('
1664
National Maritime Museum
De Ruyter's arrival in the Wester Ems 27 July/ 6 Aug 1665 (or return from the West Indies 27 July 1665). On the right is a broadside view of De Ruyer’s flagship the ‘Spiegel’ with a flag and pendant at the main, lying at anchor with
1665
National Maritime Museum
De Ruyter's arrival in the Wester Ems, 27 July/6 Aug 1665. In the right middle-distance, the ‘Speigel’, viewed from abaft the starboard beam, lying at anchor head to wind; flag and pendant at the main and pendant at the fore; firing a sal
1665
National Maritime Museum
Charles II's visit to the Combined French and English Fleets at the Nore, 6 June 1672. An inscription by John Thomas Serres on the back of this drawing indicates that his father, Dominic, drew it in 1785. However, it appears originally to have been a
circa 1675; 1785 (Serres)
National Maritime Museum
The Evil Genius of England Represented in Several Scenes relating to the War (caricature). Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
6 Dec 1740
National Maritime Museum
Baltimore (1742). No scale (probably 1:48). Plan showing the inboard profile with the bomb bed for converting the Baltimore (1742), a 14-gun Sloop, into a Bomb Ketch. This was undertaken at Deptford Dockyard by Admiralty Order dated 4 September 1758.
S
6 September 1758
National Maritime Museum
'Raven' (1771). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarter deck and forecastle, and inboard profile of 'Raven' (1771), purchased while building and proposed as a fireship, but ordered to be fitted as a fourteen gun ship sloop (frigate).
circa February 1771
National Maritime Museum
'Raven' (1771). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck with carlines, and fore and aft platforms for 'Raven' (1771) purchased while building and proposed as a fireship, but ordered to be fitted as a fourteen gun ship slo
circa February 1771
National Maritime Museum
The 'Quebec' and 'Surveillante' in Action, 6 October 1779. The British and French frigate action represented in this painting was desperately fought. The frigates were accompanied by cutters, the 'Quebec', 32 guns, by the
1781
National Maritime Museum
The Young Wanton Privateer bringing a Spanish Prize into the Port of Love (caricature). Hand-coloured.
6 Dec 1781
National Maritime Museum
Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782. (Updated, April 2018) A depiction of the third of the five fleet actions fought off Ceylon and the east coast of India, at the end of the War of American Independence, between the French and English East Indies squadrons
1786
National Maritime Museum
42ft Ballast Lighter (1786). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a clinch work forty-two foot ballast (mud) lighter, as taken off at Deptford Dockyard. The plan inclu
6 September 1786
National Maritime Museum
Raven (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Raven (1796), a fir-built, 18-gun Brig being built by Wallis at Blackwall. As the ship was to be armed with carronades extra chocks or fillings were to be added below each por
6 May 1795
National Maritime Museum
'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt; - Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles; - or - The British Hero cleansing ye mouth of ye Nile (caricature)'. Hand-coloured print 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt'.
This is a simple but effe
Published 6 October 1798
National Maritime Museum
Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, - Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles -or- The British Hero Cleansing ye Mouth of ye Nile. (Caricatures). Print
6 Oct 1798
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, section, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail for a 6-oared 26 ft Yawl.
Dated: 6 May 1799
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 8-oared 28 ft Pinnace.
Dated: 6 May 1799
National Maritime Museum
Paul Jones shooting his Lieutenant for Endeavouring to lower the American Flag. Print
6 Jan 1800
National Maritime Museum
Dido in Despair (caricature). Print 'Dido in Despair (caricature)'.
This print satirizes the scandalous relationship between Nelson and Emma Hamilton, casting them in the roles of Dido and Aeneas, the central love interest of the classical Roma
Published 6 February 1801
National Maritime Museum
A Royal Salute The Squadron saluting his Majesty on board the Southampton Frigate at the Royal Review off Plymouth Sound (1789). Print
6 October 1802
National Maritime Museum
A Brig, with a view of Old Harry in Studland Bay. Hand-coloured.; Plate No.5.
6 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
A Frigate, with a View of the Culvort Cliff, in the Isle of Wight. Hand-coloured.; Plate No.3.
6 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
A ship of the Line sailing from the Downs with a view of Sandown Castle at Deal. Hand-coloured.; Plate No.2.
6 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
A Snow in the Sound at Plymouth with a view of the Miew Stone. Plate No.4.; Hand-coloured.
6 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
A Three Decker at Spithead with the Isle of Wight at a Distance. Plate No.1.; Hand-coloured.
6 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
Invade us boys! (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
A typically rousing loyalist print centring on the virtues and heroism of the British tar. Many similar prints were produced at this time, soon after the recommencement of hostili
Published 6 October 1803
National Maritime Museum
The Coffin Expedition or Boney's Invincible Armada Half Seas Over (caricature). Print 'The Coffin Expedition or Boney's Invincible Armada Half Seas Over (caricature)'.
One of many prints published in the months after the renewal of wa
Published 6 January 1804
National Maritime Museum
Duckworth's action at San Domingo, 6 February 1806. Inscribed by Pocock in pencil, 'Sir J. T. Duckworth', 'Final View' (with a sight-line indicated) and with the names and positions of the ships. This is a preparatory plan for the
circa 1806
National Maritime Museum
Duckworth's action at San Domingo, 6 February 1806. This is a near-final compositional sketch for the large oil painting (NMM BHC0571) of Sir John Thomas Duckworth's victory off San Domingo, which formed a somewhat overlooked postscript to Trafa
1806
National Maritime Museum
Duckworth's action at San Domingo, 6 February 1806. This is a preliminary plan for the large oil painting (NMM BHC0571) of Sir John Thomas Duckworth's victory off San Domingo (see also PAD8818 for a more final plan of the action). This action fo
circa 1806
National Maritime Museum
Duckworth's action at San Domingo, 6 February 1806; a flag sketch. This is a preparatory drawing for the large oil painting (NMM BHC0571) of Sir John Thomas Duckworth's victory off San Domingo, which formed a somewhat overlooked postscript to Tr
1806
National Maritime Museum
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806. Following Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805, Sir John Duckworth left the blockade of Cadiz and pursued a French squadron to the Caribbean, where he defeated it off San Domingo on the 6 Feb
1808
National Maritime Museum
27ft Gunboat (no date). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12-oared 27ft Gunboat (no date). The plan does not show where the gun would have been mounted, but it is likely to
6 April 1808
National Maritime Museum
'Subtle' (1808). Scale: 1:48. A plans showing the upper deck, and lower deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Subtle' (1808), an American-built captured Danish Schooner, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard in September 1808.
Signed by Jo
6 June 1808
National Maritime Museum
No 3. H.M. Ship Seahorse Captain John Stewart. At daylight on the 6th July 1808 making the Turkish Frigate strike; the Corvette not to be seen, her fate unknown..... Medium includes graphite and pen and ink.; Stored in old mount with PAF4770-PAF4771, PAF4
6 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Destruction of the French Brest Fleet, in Basque Roads, by the Gallant Lord Cochrane and The sailors and Marines under his command on April 12 1809. Hand-coloured.
6 May 1809
National Maritime Museum
Wreck of the Cumberland Packet on the Island of Antigua in a dreadful Hurricane. Technique includes etching.
6 May 1809
National Maritime Museum
'Tower' (1809). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, upper deck, and lower deck for the 'Tower' (1809), a single-masted Impress Tender, as fitt
6 July 1809
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 26 ft Yawl as built at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Dated: 6 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 12 oared, 28 ft Pinnace. Signed N. Diddams [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, c1795-?]
Dated: 6 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Barge. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 32 ft Barge, as built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed N. Diddams [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1802-1823].
Dated: 6 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
The Cumberland Merchant Ship engaging 4 French Lugger Privateers off Folkestone, on 13th Jany 1811. Print.
6 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Port of Cuidadella, Minorca, 6 Nov 1812. Mounted in album with PAH3634-PAH3662, PAH3664-PAH3770.
6 Nov 1812
National Maritime Museum
A Series of Four Views... No. 4... HMS Shannon leading her Prize the American Frigate Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour, on the 6th June 1813. Bound with PAH8115-PAH8117.; Text and account of engagement on separate sheet.
1830
National Maritime Museum
Nelson. Technique includes etching. A head-and-shoulders portrait showing Nelson facing to the right, within a circular border. It is placed against a highly romanticized setting of sea, waves, sky and rocks. The letters ‘NELSON’ are inscribed
Published 6 July 1815
National Maritime Museum
Watchfull (fl. 1816). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the body plan with stern board ourline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Watchfull (fl. 1816), late Vigilant (no date), a Cutter. Signed John Nolloth [Master Shipwright, S
Dated: 6 June 1816
National Maritime Museum
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 1 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 2 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 3 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 5 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 6 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Amendment to the bill for the admission of the State of Maine into the Union, 01/06/1820 (page 7 of 8)
Taken 6 Jan 1820
The U.S. National Archives
View of London Bridge and Custom House with Margate steam yachts. Hand-coloured.
6 Jul 1820
National Maritime Museum
Study of a mounted soldier from the rear. Mounted with PAE6598, PAE6600-PAE6604.
6 Oct 1821
National Maritime Museum
A Margate Packet, The Effects of a Squall, or a Sudden Shift of Ballast (caricature). Technique includes etching.; Plate number 20.
6 Nov 1821
National Maritime Museum
Thracian (1809); Eclair (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for the Thracian (1809) and later for Eclair (1807), both 18-gun Brigs, as converted to Ship Sloops. Thracian was altered to a Ship Sloop at Chatham Dockyard in 182
6 July 1822
National Maritime Museum
Thracian (1809); Eclair (1807); Pandora (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Thracian (1809), and later for Eclair (1807), both 18-gun Brigs, as converted to Ship Sloops. The plan also refers to alterations to Pandora (1813) in 1825
6 July 1822
National Maritime Museum
The Earl of St Vincent, An Admiral of the Fleet G.C.B. & General of Marines. From an Original Picture in the Possession of Captn Brenton for Captn Brenton's Naval History. Print
6 Dec 1822
National Maritime Museum
Getuigschrift van Verdiensten behorend bij de gouden erepenning van Maatschappij Felix Meritis, uitgereikt aan Joachim Pieter Asmus
6 January 1823
Rijksmuseum
Ships in Portsmouth Harbour off the Dockyard, 1825. No. 37 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed (from left to right) 'Asia/ Volage Warspite Pyramus Dockyard Portsmouth – Sepr 6/1825.'
HMS 'Warspite', 76 guns, in the centre of th
6 September 1825
National Maritime Museum
The Cambria brig, receiving on board the last boatload, from the Kent Indiaman on fire. Stored with PAH0542.
6 Dec 1825
National Maritime Museum
The Cambria brig, receiving on board the last boatload, from the Kent Indiaman on fire. Text in English below image.
6 Dec 1826
National Maritime Museum
Message of President Andrew Jackson nominating his cabinet, 03/06/1829 (page 2 of 2)
Taken 6 Mar 1829
The U.S. National Archives
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal", 12/06/1830, Page 1/7
Taken 6 Dec 1830
The U.S. National Archives
H.M.S. Barham On her passage to the Mediterranean with Sir Walter Scott on Sunday 6th Novbr 1831 Latde 48o 8' Noth Longde 5o 50' Wet. 'Barham' is shown on her passage to the Mediterranean with Sir Walter Scott on Sunday 6 November 1831
1833
National Maritime Museum
A lugger on the beach at Hastings, Oct 6 1834. Mounted with PAE5504.
6 Oct 1834
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1835-04-06
6 April 1835
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1835-04-06
6 April 1835
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1835-07-06
6 July 1835
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
The East India Ship 'Duke of Buccleuch', (Captn Alexr Henning) in a Hurricane off the Mauritius, attempting to wear. Print entitled 'The East India Ship 'Duke of Buccleuch', (Captn Alexr Henning) in a Hurricane off the Mauritius,
6 April 1836
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Journal des modes' 1836-11-06
6 November 1836
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Message of President Martin Van Buren nominating Henry Wheaton Envoy to be Exraordinary and Minister Penipotentiary to Prussia, 03/06/1837
Taken 6 Mar 1837
The U.S. National Archives
Edinburgh (1811). Scale 1:24. Plan showing a profile and plan of the shell room as fitted to the Edinburgh (1811), a 74 gun, Third rate, two-decker.
Signed by Richard Blake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1835-1844].
6 December 1838
National Maritime Museum