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All 26255American Air Museum
American Air Museum 421
Europeana
Sjöhistoriska museet 3382
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 2105
Bohusläns museum 2099
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 1777
Tekniska museet 1198
Vänersborgs museum 889
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 705
Miliseum 660
Skansen 610
Flygvapenmuseum 388
Rijksmuseum 294
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 221
Kulturarv Västernorrland 175
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 173
Marinmuseum 171
Riksantikvarieämbetet 124
The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland 95
Örebro läns museum 76
Sundsvalls museum 48
Länsmuseet Gävleborg 37
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 29
Upplandsmuseet 21
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 20
Historisch Museum Ede 17
Vasamuseet 14
Postmuseum 13
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 13
Aaltense Musea 11
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 6
Ajuntament de Girona 5
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 5
CODA Museum 4
Slovak National Library 2
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 2
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 1
jNederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Cluj County Library 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 122
State Library and Archives of Florida 71
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 59
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 53
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 36
Museum of Hartlepool 35
State Library of New South Wales collection 33
NASA on The Commons 28
State Library of Queensland, Australia 25
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 22
Royal Australian Historical Society 22
MissouriStateArchives 15
UW Digital Collections 12
Powerhouse Museum Collection 10
The Library of Congress 10
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 8
National Library of Norway 6
bibliothequedetoulouse 6
Swedish National Heritage Board 5
Australian War Memorial collection 4
Provincial Archives of Alberta 4
National Library NZ on The Commons 4
Costică Acsinte Archive 4
Deseronto Archives 2
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 2
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 2
Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol 2
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 1
The National Archives UK 1
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 1
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives 1
National Library of Australia Commons 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 4717
Imperial War Museums
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 631
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 348
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 307
Other 220
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 150
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 December 1917 - February 1918 51
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 44
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 42
Womens War Work 38
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 33
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 27
War Office Second World War Official Collection 19
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 15
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 13
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 12
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 12
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 9
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 9
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 8
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 8
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 7
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 7
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 6
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 3
The Road To War 2
Admiralty Official Collection 2
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 2
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 2
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 2
Italian First World War Official Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 2
War Office, Central Office Of Information And American Second World War Official Collection 1
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 1
Belfast Telegraph Collection 1
Ministry Of Information First World War Unofficial Collection 1
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 1
Deaths: Nurses General 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 1466
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 729
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 202
Oil Paintings 85
Coins & Commemorative Medals 79
Navigational Instruments 64
Orders & Medals 59
Ship Models 58
Historic Photographic Negatives 42
Charts & Maps 40
Globes 31
Horological Instruments 24
Miniatures 21
Uniforms 20
Plate 16
Sculpture 14
Jewellery 13
Astronomical Instruments 12
Polar Equipment & Relics 10
Miscellaneous Antiquities 10
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 9
Antiquities - Tools 9
Flags 8
Relics 8
Archive 7
Glass 7
Firearms 7
Edged Weapons 5
Ceramics 4
Historic Photograph Albums 3
Ethnography 3
Textiles 2
Oceanography 2
Historic Photographic Prints 2
Furniture 1
Antiquities - Ships Equipment 1
Other 1
Figureheads & Carved Decorations 1
Ships Equipment 1
Year
All 6081801 1
1803 3
1804 2
1806 1
1814 2
1820 6
1839 5
1840 2
1850 2
1855 2
1856 4
1857 1
1861 4
1863 1
1864 1
1865 1
1869 2
1870 1
1872 1
1880 10
1883 2
1884 1
1886 1
1888 1
1890 1
1891 1
1893 2
1895 5
1897 4
1898 2
1899 5
1900 3
1901 8
1902 3
1903 2
1904 4
1906 4
1907 2
1908 6
1909 2
1910 11
1911 4
1912 11
1913 2
1914 4
1915 8
1916 7
1917 2
1918 7
1919 2
1920 2
1921 2
1922 42
1923 9
1924 17
1925 4
1926 9
1927 3
1928 8
1929 18
1930 13
1931 3
1932 3
1933 5
1934 9
1935 16
1936 22
1937 24
1938 29
1939 12
1940 9
1941 8
1942 1
1943 2
1944 6
1945 9
1946 6
1947 3
1948 10
1949 8
1950 11
1951 5
1952 9
1953 8
1954 3
1955 5
1956 3
1957 9
1958 6
1959 8
1960 5
1961 21
1962 5
1963 6
1964 4
1965 4
1966 5
1967 4
1968 1
1969 4
1970 1
About this site
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
Data sources
Update 16 October 2018
- Addition of nearly 60,000 superb dated autochromes (one of the earliest commercial colour processes) from the Musée Albert Kahn, accessed through the Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
- Complete refresh of Flickr Commons, Europeana, and National Maritime Museum data
- Added pagination as many dates now have signifcantly more than 100 images!
Current totals by data source
- Europeana - 72434 items
- Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines - 58556 items
- Imperial War Museums - 38229 items
- Lives of the First World War - 33134 items
- National Maritime Museum - 29529 items
- Flickr Commons - 13362 items
- American Air Museum - 5054 items
Current totals by date accuracy
- Precise date - 206835 items
- Accurate to month only - 16699 items
- Accurate to year only - 26764 items
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;
Technology overview
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).
Licence
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).
