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All 21250American Air Museum
American Air Museum 366
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 1988
Sjöhistoriska museet 1149
Bohusläns museum 513
Vänersborgs museum 430
Kulturarv Västernorrland 393
Rijksmuseum 230
Örebro läns museum 192
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 87
Tekniska museet 74
Marinmuseum 72
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 68
Flygvapenmuseum 42
Miliseum 32
Ajuntament de Girona 18
Historisch Museum Ede 14
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 10
Upplandsmuseet 10
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 10
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 9
CODA Museum 7
Images of Old Cluj 7
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 5
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 3
Aaltense Musea 3
Skansen 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 2
Stichting Liemers Museum 1
Sundsvalls museum 1
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 1
Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs 1
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 1
Vasamuseet 1
Riksantikvarieämbetet 1
Cluj County Library 1
Nationalmuseum, Sweden 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 156
bibliothequedetoulouse 124
MissouriStateArchives 71
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 43
State Library and Archives of Florida 42
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 39
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 28
State Library of New South Wales collection 25
NASA on The Commons 23
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 22
State Library of Queensland, Australia 21
Australian War Memorial collection 10
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 9
The Library of Congress 9
Royal Australian Historical Society 7
Swedish National Heritage Board 7
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 6
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 6
UW Digital Collections 5
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 4
Costică Acsinte Archive 3
National Library of Norway 2
National Library of Australia Commons 2
Museum of Hartlepool 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
Provincial Archives of Alberta 1
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Powerhouse Museum Collection 1
Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane 1
The National Archives UK 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 6154
Imperial War Museums
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 904
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 656
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 468
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 340
Other 284
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 149
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 75
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 70
Womens War Work 65
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 51
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 49
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 38
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 32
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 27
Admiralty Official Collection 23
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 19
Pitman Thomas Tait (major-general) Collection 18
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 17
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 17
War Office Second World War Official Collection 16
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 16
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 12
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 12
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 10
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 8
Robson Harold Burge (hon) Collection 8
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 7
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 7
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 7
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 5
Deaths: Nurses General 4
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Red Cross (joint War Committee) 1920 4
Deaths: Other Services- Munition Workers 4
Corporation Of The City Of London Collection 4
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 3
The Royal Navy 1914 - 1918 3
Deaths: Nurses- Serbian Relief Fund 3
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 3
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 3
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 3
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 3
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 December 1917 - February 1918 3
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August 1918 2
First World War Womens War Work Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 2
Deaths: Other Services- Waacs 2
Lachmann Gustav Collection 2
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 2
War Diary In Four Volumes 1
The Road To War 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 1
British Aircraft And Early Aircraft In Other Museums And Institutions 1913 - 1918 (gsa 129) 1
Belfast Telegraph Collection 1
War Office First World War Official Collection 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 4483
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 503
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 157
Historic Photographic Negatives 32
Oil Paintings 13
Charts & Maps 8
Archive 4
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 4
Horological Instruments 1
Miscellaneous Antiquities 1
Historic Photograph Albums 1
Plate 1
Year
All 61541909 8
1911 2
1912 346
1913 322
1914 24
1915 36
1917 341
1918 196
1919 288
1920 420
1921 1152
1922 333
1923 568
1924 313
1925 534
1926 131
1927 182
1928 448
1929 122
1930 95
1931 284
1934 4
1937 5
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).