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).
India House. The Sale Room. Plate 45. The impressive headquarters of the East India Company were at Leadenhall Street in the City. From this building British India was ruled with little interference from the Government for the best part of a century. The
1 Dec 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Ville de Paris, Foundering in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes engraving.
10 Dec 1808
National Maritime Museum
Part of the Crew of the Abergavenny East Indiaman, delivered from their Perilous Situation. Hand-coloured aquatint print depicting the aftermath of the wreckage of the Earl of Abergavenny, this is an illustration in T. Tegg's "Accounts of Shipwr
24 Dec 1808
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: moored vessel with tarpaulin awning in a river landscape with two men fishing. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5134.
5 Dec 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
Thames Scene: a Thames barge drawn up on the river bank silhouetted against the sky. Thames barges were used for the transport of goods along the river and the south-east coast. They were designed to be able to move freely in shallow waters. They were u
9 Dec 1809
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail for a 26 ft Yawl. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, ? -1813; Surveyor of the Navy 1813-1831].
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 10 oared, 28 ft Pinnace. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth, c1809-1813; Surveyor of the Navy,
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 14? oared, 32 ft Pinnace. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth, c1809-1813; Surveyor of the Navy,
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
Titania, Puck, the Changeling, &c (From Shakespear's play of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'). Lady Hamilton. Print
1 Dec 1810
National Maritime Museum
Captn Joseph Huddart, F.R.S. Engraved for the European Magazine from an Original Picture in the Possession of Chas Turner Esqr by T. Blood. Print
1 Dec 1811
National Maritime Museum
Two unnamed 63ft single-masted Sailing Lighters (1812). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building two unnamed 63ft single-masted Sailing Lighter (1812), a
18 December 1811
National Maritime Museum
Two unnamed 63ft single-masted Sailing Lighters (1812). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the upper deck for building two unnamed 63ft single-masted Sailing Lighter (1812), at Topsham by Mr Robert Davy for use as stone carriers in Plymouth Sound.
Initialled by
18 December 1811
National Maritime Museum
The wreck of HMS Hero in the Texel, 25 December 1811. 'The wreck of HMS Hero in the Texel, 25 Dec 1811' by Thomas Robbert Strickland, Lt, Rn, 1787-1853.
1839
National Maritime Museum
Starboard quarter of a derelict three-decker. Medium includes graphite and pen and black ink.
Dec 1812
National Maritime Museum
'Montanes' (1794). Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Montanes' (1794), a Spanish 74-gun two-decker.
Signed by Julian Martin de Retamosa [Shipbuilder and designer, and Lie
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
'Neptuno' (1795); 'Argonauta' (1798). Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Neptuno' (1795) and 'Argonauta' (1798), both Spanish 80-gun two-decker. These two
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
A Cruize to Covent Garden!! (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Page No.121.
1 Dec 1812
National Maritime Museum
A Three Decker at Spithead with the Isle of Wight at a Distance. Hand-coloured.
1 Dec 1812
National Maritime Museum
Proposed Spanish 50-gun frigate (1797). Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed flush-deck 50-gun Frigate.
Signed by Julian Martin de Retamosa [Shipbuilder and designer, and Lieutena
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 112-gun Spanish three-decker (no date). Graduated Bar Scale. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed Spanish 112-gun three-decker. Spain built a number of 112-gun warships of which
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed Spanish 54-gun two-decker (no date). Body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed Spanish 54-gun two-decker.
Signed by Julian Martin de Retamosa [Shipbuilder and designer, and Lieutenant General of the
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed Spanish 64-gun two-decker (no date). Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed Spanish 64-gun two-decker.
Signed by Julian Martin de Retamosa [Shipbuilder and designer, and Lieutenan
1 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
Medina (1813); Carron (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Medina (1813) and Carron (1813), both 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloops at Bucklers Hard by Edward Adams.
Sig
18 December 1812
National Maritime Museum
Constitution and Java. The Constitution had 9 killed & 25 wounded. Fought Dec 29th 1812. The Java had 60 killed & 170 wounded. Hand-coloured.; Plate 403.
1846
National Maritime Museum
Proclamatie vanwege de prins van Oranje bij zijn intrede in Amsterdam, 2 december 1813
2 December 1813
Rijksmuseum
William I, Sovereign Prince of the United Netherlands, later King of the Netherlands
2 December 1813
Rijksmuseum
Seringapatam (1819). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Seringapatam (1819), a 36/44-gun Fifth Rate Frigate building at Bombay Dockyard.
10 December 1813
National Maritime Museum
Costume parisiens : Chapeau de Velours. Jabot tournant
15 December 1813
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Proclamatie vanwege de prins van Oranje over de departementen van het land, 15 december 1813
15 December 1813
Rijksmuseum
Waaierblad met de dood van de Spaanse patriotten Daviz en Velarde bij de verdediging van Madris tegen de Franse troepen, 2 mei 1808, in het Parque de Artilleria
15 December 1813
Rijksmuseum
Naval Cutlass Exercise including Prepatory Movements and Words of Command. Hand-coloured. An etching showing naval cutlass exercises, including the positions of the swordsman. The words of command and different methods of defence and attack are included o
Published 31 December 1813
National Maritime Museum
The capture of four French Gun Vessels by a Boat party commanded by Lieutenant Blyth, R.N. Engraved by permission of Mrs Blyth from the original in her possession. Print
31 Dec 1814
National Maritime Museum
President (capture 1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sternboard outline, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for President (captured 1815), a captured United States Fourth Rate, as taken off at Portsmouth Docky
1 December 1815
National Maritime Museum
The Chesapeake & Shannon. Engraved for the Naval Monument. Technique includes etching.
28 Dec 1815
National Maritime Museum
Action between H.B.M.S. Vinceio John Wesley Wright Esqr, Commander, and a numerous French flotilla, off Quiberon on the Coast of France 7th May 1804. Print
30 Dec 1815
National Maritime Museum
Capture of the Badere Zaffer July 6th, 1808. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes etching.
1 Dec 1816
National Maritime Museum
Commemorative silver plate given to Commander Broke by the County of Suffolk for his part in capturing the Chesapeake. Print
2 Dec 1816
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth. K.G.C.B. &c.&c.&c. Engraved by Mr Roberts from a fine Portrait by Sir T Lawrence. For Gifford's History of the War. Print
7 Dec 1816
National Maritime Museum
Proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun ships. 1:24. Plan showing a section illustrating the present method of fixing the keel to 74 gun, Third Rates, and a section illustrating the proposed method of fixing the keel to a 74 gun ship, where the shi
11 December 1817
National Maritime Museum
Proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun ships. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the keel profiles for the stern and bow, and a section, illustrating the proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun Third Rate two-deckers.
Signed by Oliver Lang [Assist
11 December 1817
National Maritime Museum
The artist's mother. Mounted with PAE6500-PAE6505, PAE6507-PAE6509.
14 Dec 1817
National Maritime Museum
The First Day of the Yam Custom. This image depicts the Asantehene Osei Bonsu of Kumasi in the midst of a procession. The Asantehene, or king, is seated in a chair of ebony and gold under the state umbrella (with the elephant on top). He wears symbolic it
2 December 1818
National Maritime Museum
Two coastal profiles, of St Aldan's Head and Lulworth Cove, 1818. No. 30 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right 'St Aldans head bearing SE by S/12 miles/ Decr 19 - 1818', and in centre of sheet 'Lulworth cove E
19 December 1818
National Maritime Museum
Situation of the Pilot & la Legere, at the close of the action on the 17 June 1815. Vignette.; Pl.523.
31 Dec 1818
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 109ft three-masted, 18-gun ship sloop. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 109ft three-masted, 18-gun ship sloop, as prepared by order from the Admiralty dated 4 March 1819. This desi
17 December 1819
National Maritime Museum
Lieut Flynn, R.N. Sketched by A. Wivell, in the House of Lords. Print
9 Dec 1820
National Maritime Museum
Captain Thomas Coram. Engraved by Edward Smith. Print, after the portrait of Coram in the Foundling Hospital collection, London.
Dec 1821
National Maritime Museum