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).
20ft Gig (1806). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing two body plans, a sheer lines with inboard detail, and the longitudinal half-breadth with half deck plan for a six-oared 20ft Gig (1806), built for Captain Walker.
Signed by George Hilhouse [Shipbuilder and
November 1806
National Maritime Museum
20ft Longboat (1806). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and the longitudinal half-breadth of a 20ft Longboat [Longboat Number 12] (1806) to carry two hogsheads or four puncheons. See HIL0099 for an office copy of this plan.
November 1806
National Maritime Museum
A Correct Representation of the Funeral Car now Exhibiting in the Painted Chamber Greenwich Hospital. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting Nelson's funeral car. Inscribed round the top: 'TRAFALGAR PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT' and on the
Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.M. & F.R.S. Commander of His Majesty's Squadron at the Capture of Buenos Ayres, &c. Print
1 Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
The Death of Lord Nelson, October 21st 1805. Technique includes stipple engraving.
8 Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
To Lord Collingwood...This representation of the destruction of the French & Spanish prizes after the Glorious Victory off Trafalgar. Hand-coloured and one of a set of three, PAI 6132 (PAI5438 being another copy), PAI6134 and PAI6144. These were all
9 Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
The - high - Flying Candidate, (i.e. Little Paul-Goose, ) mounting from a Blanket (caricature) (Hood). Hand-coloured.; No.54.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
11 Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte &c. &c. &c. In the Dress he wore, when he received his Mortal Wound, 21st Octr 1805. This print is from Dr William Beatty's published account of the death of Nelson, which also included an engraving of
17 November 1806
National Maritime Museum
'On a Visit in Style - Taking a Ride - West India Fashionables'. Two vignettes inscribed 'Taking a Ride' and 'West India Fashionables', probably by James Sayers (1748-1823).
This image satirizes a planter in the British Cari
1 November 1807
National Maritime Museum
A West India Sportsman. Make haste with the Sangaree, Quashaie, and tell Quaco to drive the Birds up to me - I'm ready. In 1807 when the bill banning the trade in slaves in British dominions was finally passed, William Holland published a series of p
1 November, 1807
National Maritime Museum
The Continental Dock-yard (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Plate 229.
27 Nov 1807
National Maritime Museum
The Continental Dock-yard (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Plate Part 8.
27 Nov 1807
National Maritime Museum
Rear Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, K.B. Engraved by Ridley & Blood from an Original Painting by H Matthews. European Magazine. Print
1 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
4-man bed cabins on Troopships (1808). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the elevation, and section illustrating the fitting of four-man bed cabins, for the receprtion of troops onboard Transports (Troopships). Signed William Fearnall [Master Shipwright ?]
Fo
5 November 1808
National Maritime Museum
'The Parsonage House of Burham Thorpe'. Technique includes engraving. This is the print from what is presumed to be the related oil painting by Isaac Pocock ( BHC1772). It was engraved for volume 1 of Clarke and McArthur's 'Life of Nel
Published 15 November 1808
National Maritime Museum
Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21st 1805. Print
15 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
Nelson receiving the surrender of the San Nicolas at the battle of St Vincent, 14 February 1797. Print
15 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
The San Nicolas & San Josef Carried by Boarding February 14th 1797. Print
15 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
HMS Captain capturing the San Nicolas and the San Josef at the battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797. Print
16 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich. Other copies are PAD2213 and PAD2214 (see last for notes). From Cooke's 'Views on the Thames' .
1 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: boy in rowing boat drawn up in a river landscape with houses. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5133, PAF5135.
8 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 5. Rusul Khyma, with the Attack of the H C-s Cruisers on the eveng. of the 11th Novr. 1809. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 8. The Storming of a Storehouse near Rusal Khyma... Novr 13th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 9. Rus al Khyma... the situation of the Troops... Novr 13th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph...Forces...Against the Arabian Pirates No 6. The Wall & Beach, near Rus ul Khyma, with Troops preparing to land....13th Nov 1809. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: a rowing boat with covered awning in a river landscape with windmill. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5132, PAF5134-PAF5135.
15 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 10. A View of Linga or Lung, from the Sea, during the destruction of the Dow's &c Novr.16th 1809. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Etchings... No.1, containing scenery on the River Thames. Rowing boat with shipped oars drawn up on a shore with other vessels and landscape beyond. Bound with PAF5129-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 12. The Attack on the Fort of Luft, Novr 27th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: rowing boat on shore with landscape beyond. Bound with PAF5128, PAF5130-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: small rowing boat covered with a tarpaulin. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5129, PAF5131-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Broadside view of a fighting vessel with a vessel in full sail beyond and other shipping in 'A Brisk Gale'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting and sailing vessels 'At Anchor' in a calm sea. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting and sailing vessels at sea in 'A Calm'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting vessels and sailing vessels at sea near a lighthouse in 'A Fresh Breeze'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Dart (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan,, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dart (1810), a Cutter, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed Nicholas Diddams [Master Shipwright, Portsm
Dated: 9 November 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
'Tortoise' (1807). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing an incomplete inboard profile, upper deck, gun deck (lower), and orlop deck for the 'Tortoise' (1809), a storeship, prior to her 1813 modifications, which are annotated in pencil.
Sign
1November 1811
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Lissa, 13 March 1811; the end of the action. This appears to be a duplicate of PAH8093, where a fuller description is given.
1 Nov 1811
National Maritime Museum
Ships of the 14th & 15th Centuries. 1375, 1425. Technique includes mixed methods.
1 Nov 1812
National Maritime Museum
Port of Cuidadella, Minorca, 6 Nov 1812. Mounted in album with PAH3634-PAH3662, PAH3664-PAH3770.
6 Nov 1812
National Maritime Museum
After Powder Room for a 74 gun Ship. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing a plan of the after Powder Room for a 74 gun Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by William M. Rice [School of Naval Architecture] and dated 1819.
November 1813
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Nelson. K.B. Technique includes etching.; Photograph of a large house and gardens on reverse.
1 Nov 1813
National Maritime Museum
Buffalo (1813). Scale: probably 1:96. Plans showing incomplete inboard profile, quarter deck, forecastle deck, upper deck, and lower deck with alterations in green ink for fitting the Buffalo (1813), a purchased East Indiaman, converted to a Storeship.
5 November 1813
National Maritime Museum
The Blockade of Toulon, 1810-14: Pellew's Action, 5 November 1813. An incident in the blockade of Toulon, the principal French Mediterranean naval port, towards the end of the Napoleonic War. By the autumn of 1813 the French fleet at Toulon had built
1830
National Maritime Museum
Hindostan (1804). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the alterations to the cabin arrangements on the upper deck for fitting Hindostan (1804), a purchased East Indiaman, as converted to a Storeship. This plan was sent to Chatham Dockyard to replace one of 4 Nove
11 November 1813
National Maritime Museum
A Long Pull a Strong Pull and a Pull Altogether (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Plate 233.
25 Nov 1813
National Maritime Museum
Belette (1814); Gannet (1814). No scale, probably 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck, with cabin and bin layouts, and the fore & aft platforms for Belette (1814) and Gannet (1814), both 18-gun Brigs to be built by Messrs Larking & Spong, at King
29 November 1813
National Maritime Museum
Belette (1814); Gannet (1814). No scale, probably 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Belette (1814) and Gannet (1814), both 18-gun Brigs to be built by Messrs Larking & Spong at King's Lynn, Norfolk.
The plan shows the run of deck planking
29 November 1813
National Maritime Museum
Belette (1814); Gannet (1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, with pencil annotations, for Belette (1814) and Gannet (1814), both 18-gun Brigs to be built by Messrs Larking & Spong at King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Signed Henry Peake [
29 November 1813
National Maritime Museum
Destruction of American fleet by Sir G Collier's squadron in Penobscot Bay Aug 14 1779. Vignette.
1 Nov 1814
National Maritime Museum
Dr Herschel, Member of the Royal Society of London..... This half-length portrait of William Herschel shows him wrapped up warm, ready for observing, against a background of trees at night with a crescent moon and stars (part of the constellation of Gemin
1 November 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
'A View from Trinity College, Cambridge'. This caricature entitled 'A View from Trinity College, Cambridge' shows a don in a gown and mortar board and metal frame glasses walking across the grounds.
Richard Dighton (1795/6-1865) was t
November 1815
National Maritime Museum
Bonaparte in Torbay, at Anchor, on board His M Ship Bellerophon, Capt F C Maitland, July 24, 1815, previous to his sailing for St Helena (Eurotas and Liffey in background). Technique includes etching. The artist is George Tobin (1768-1838) who as a lieut
1 Nov 1815
National Maritime Museum
37 ft Pinnace (1815). Scale : 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 18 oared, 37 ft Pinnace, built for Tremendous (74-gun, Third Rate two-decker, launched in 1784).
Dated: 10 November 1815
National Maritime Museum
38 ft Pinnace (1815). Scale : 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 18 oared, 38 ft Pinnace, built for Tremendous (74-gun, Third Rate two-decker, launched in 1784).
Dated: 10 November 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gorée. Drawing of French trading post on Gorée Island, off the coast of Senegal. Dated, monogrammed and watermarked 1814. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
15 November, 1815
National Maritime Museum
Capture of L' Immortalite Octr. 20th. 1798 [by the 'Fisgard']. Print
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of L' Immortalite Octr. 20th. 1798 [by the 'Fisgard']. This images shows port stern quarter views of the L'Immortalite (on the left) and the Fisgard (on the right) as they both run before the wind, engaging in broadside gun ba
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Desiree - July 7th 1800. The plate represents the sloop 'Dart', commanded by Captain P. Campbell in the act of boarding and taking the French frigate 'La Desiree'. 'Dart' is in the centre of the picture.
Inscrib
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of the Santa Dorotea, 15th July 1798. This hand-coloured aquatint depicts the capture of the Spanish ship ‘Santa Dorotea’ by the English ‘Lion’ on 15th July, 1798. The ‘Lion’ is in the centre right of the pictur
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
General the Earl of Moira. Engraved by H.R. Cook from the Picture by M.A. Shee R.A. for Gifford's History of the War. Print
9 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum