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All 13380American Air Museum
American Air Museum 392
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 1932
Sjöhistoriska museet 1124
Vänersborgs museum 391
Bohusläns museum 318
Rijksmuseum 266
Kulturarv Västernorrland 250
Tekniska museet 102
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 78
Marinmuseum 55
Örebro läns museum 51
Flygvapenmuseum 50
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 40
Miliseum 25
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 21
Ajuntament de Girona 15
Historisch Museum Ede 11
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 4
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 4
Riksantikvarieämbetet 3
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 3
Upplandsmuseet 2
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 2
Wikimedia Commons Community 2
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 2
Skansen 2
Cluj County Library 2
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 1
Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs 1
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 1
Images of Old Cluj 1
Slovak National Library 1
Deventer Musea 1
Aaltense Musea 1
CODA Museum 1
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 170
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 56
State Library and Archives of Florida 47
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 40
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 32
State Library of Queensland, Australia 30
NASA on The Commons 25
MissouriStateArchives 25
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 21
State Library of New South Wales collection 20
Deseronto Archives 16
Provincial Archives of Alberta 15
bibliothequedetoulouse 13
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 12
The Library of Congress 12
National Library NZ on The Commons 9
Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University 8
tyrrellhistoricallibrary 8
Australian War Memorial collection 6
Royal Australian Historical Society 5
National Archives of Estonia 4
UW Digital Collections 4
National Library of Australia Commons 4
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 4
Powerhouse Museum Collection 2
Costică Acsinte Archive 2
Getty Research Institute 2
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 2
Swedish National Heritage Board 1
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 1
National Museum of Denmark 1
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 1540
Imperial War Museums
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 627
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 490
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 342
Other 316
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 255
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 96
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 79
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 50
Womens War Work 47
War Office Second World War Official Collection 33
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 30
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 22
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 20
Belfast Telegraph Collection 20
Admiralty Official Collection 19
Saunders R J Collection 17
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 15
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 14
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 13
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 13
Heydecker Joe Julius Collection 12
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 12
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 11
Barbanti Gian G (mr) Collection 10
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 8
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 8
Joel H 7
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 7
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 6
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 6
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 6
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 5
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 3
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 3
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 3
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 3
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 3
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 3
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 3
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 2
The Coronation Of Emperor Charles Of Austria As King Of Hungary In Budapest 1916 & Scenes In Austria 2
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 2
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 2
War Diary In Four Volumes 1
The Royal Navy 1914 - 1918 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses General 1
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 1
Australian Forces In Gallipoli 1915 - 1916 1
Broom Albert (mrs) 1
Deaths: Other Services- Munition Workers 1
Robson Harold Burge (hon) Collection 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June 1918 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 1
Zimnal Marian (lieutenant Colonel) Collection 03 1
Italian First World War Official Collection 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 2835
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 355
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 146
Historic Photographic Negatives 43
Oil Paintings 15
Ship Models 9
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 6
Charts & Maps 4
Miscellaneous Antiquities 3
Archive 3
Glass 3
Astronomical Instruments 1
Historic Photographic Prints 1
Historic Photograph Albums 1
Textiles 1
Polar Equipment & Relics 1
Year
All 15401910 7
1912 8
1915 8
1917 38
1918 87
1919 219
1920 158
1921 19
1922 313
1923 12
1924 36
1925 88
1926 46
1927 199
1928 7
1929 267
1930 16
1931 10
1934 1
1937 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).