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).
(Key to) Death of Lord Nelson painted by A W Devis.... Text in English below image. The published key accompanying Bromley's engraving of Devis's 'Death of Nelson' (BHC2894), for which painting was commissioned by Boydell.
2 Mar 1812
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Shipwreck and Total Loss of the St George... and the Defence.... in the North Sea (with key). Hand-coloured.
4 Mar 1812
National Maritime Museum
Nimble (1811); Swan (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Nimble (1811) and Swan (1811), both 12-gun Cutters, as built by Mr Gely of Cowes, Isle of Wig
Dated: 10 March 1812
National Maritime Museum
Nimble (1811); Swan (1811). Scale: possibly 1:32. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for the Nimble (1811), a 12-gun Cutter, as built at Cowes, and also for the Swan (1811) built to the same mould. Signed Nicholas Diddams [Master Shipwright, Po
Dated: 10 March 1812
National Maritime Museum
65ft Stone Carrier (no date). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a sixty-five foot stone carrier (no date), as proposed by Captain Huddart for carrying stone to the breakwater in Pl
March 1813
National Maritime Museum
Stone Carrier (no date). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing a section, part plan and details for a stone carrier (no date). This plan looks as of it relates to ZAZ5950, and therefore as proposed by Captain Huddart in March 1813.
Captain Joseph Huddart (1741-18
possibly March 1813
National Maritime Museum
HMS Blenheim [John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough?]. Figurehead of HMS 'Blenheim', a 74-gun third rate warship built at Deptford Dockyard in 1813. The figurehead represents a male bust-length figure in military dress with a sash over the le
1813
National Maritime Museum
Naval Architecture. Perspective section of a third-rate Ship of War, built upon a novel Construction. Print
1 Mar 1813
National Maritime Museum
Fowey / Towey (1814). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Fowey / Towey (1814), a 26/28-gun Sloop building at Buchlers Hard by Mr Balthazar Adams. Signed William Rule, Henry Peake (Surveyors of the Navy)
15 March 1813
National Maritime Museum
Dolphin (1781). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the inboard profile, spar deck, upper deck, lower deck, and orlop deck of the Dolphin (1814), a 50-gun Fifth Rate, as converted to a Storeship.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 181
1 March 1814
National Maritime Museum
'Talavera' (1818). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines (with alterations), and longitudinal half-breadth for building the 'Talavera' (1818), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker at Woolwich Dockyard.
Note that the plan r
15 March 1814
National Maritime Museum
Departementaal Dagblad van de Zuiderzee. Extra Ordinaire Amsterdamsche Courant. Ao 1814 / No. 7 / 30 maart 1814
30 March 1814
Rijksmuseum
Mast House, Blackwall. Print entitled, 'The Old Mast House, Blackwall'. This is a re-engraving of Owen's 1809-11 'Thames' series view (see PAD1397) for W. B. Cooke's 'Views on the Thames', published as 38 plates in
31 March 1814
National Maritime Museum
Ferdinand Quatre, Roi de Naples, et de Sicile. Dedie A son Altesse Royale Monseigneur, Le Prince Leopold des Deux Siciles. Technique includes etching and stipple engraving.; Hand-coloured.
1 Mar 1815
National Maritime Museum
Newcastle (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Newcastle (1813), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate, as taken off in November 1815 when fitting for foreign
11 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Sir S. Smith Defending the Breach of d' Acre, against Bonaparte. Print
12 Mar 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile with some outboard detail for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as cut down and fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813.
Sig
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The lower deck used to be the orlop deck when sh
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The plan illustrates the storage divisions for t
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the platform in the hold for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The plan illustrates the storage divis
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The roundhouse was part of the quarterdeck when
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the spar deck for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The spar deck used to be the upper deck when she
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for use as a Powder Hulk at Plymouth Dockyard in 1813. The upper deck used to be the lower deck when sh
18 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Commodore Decatur. Late Commander of the American Frigate President captur'd by HMS Endymion Captn Hope, off New York, 15th Jany 1815. Stipple engraving.
27 Mar 1815
National Maritime Museum
Launch of the Steam Frigate Fulton the First at New York, 29th Octr 1814. The picture is inscribed "Launch of the Steam Frigate Fulton the First at New York, 29th Octr 1814" but H.I. Chapelle in the Mariner's Mirror vol XVIII writes: "
27 Mar 1815
National Maritime Museum
Study of the stern of a small merchant ship. No. 39 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper left 'In the Town camber/Portsmouth harbour/March 27th 1815' and annotated with colour notes.
This is probably a visiting Dutch vessel sketche
29 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Battle of the Nile, Augt. 1st 1798. Plate I. After a long and anxious search through the Mediterranean, Nelson's fleet discovered the French warships covering Napoleon's invasion of Egypt at anchor in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria at the mouth of
Published 1 March 1816
National Maritime Museum
Nederlandsche Staatscourant van 9 maart 1816 met het bericht van het huwelijk van de prins van Oranje en Anna Paulowna
9 March 1816
Rijksmuseum
Vertaling van de huwelijksakten van de prins van Oranje en Anna Paulowna, 1816
9 March 1816
Rijksmuseum
H.M.S. Magicienne passing through the Needles March 10th 1816. This is a watercolour painting depicting a stern view of the HMS ‘Magicienne’, a 36-gun vessel launched for the Royal Navy in 1812, and converted into a 24-gun warship in 1831. She
1816
National Maritime Museum
Alexander Dalrymple Esqr late Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Plate CCCCLVI. Engraved by Blood (with the Permission of Mr Asperne Proprieter of the European Magazine) from An Original Drawing by John Brown. Print
30 Mar 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Clorinde, Feby 26th 1814. Hand-coloured etching and aquatint showing HMS Eurotas in action with La Clorinde (1808). La Clorinde is shown on the left. She was captured the day after the action by the Dryad and Achates.
1 Mar 1817
National Maritime Museum
Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar - Octr 21st 1805. Plate 1.
1 Mar 1817
National Maritime Museum
Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar - Octr 21st 1805. Plate I.
1 Mar 1817
National Maritime Museum
Diligence (1818); Bramble (1822); Swift (1821); Sparrow (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with midhips framing and inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Diligence, a Revenue Cutter. The pla
12 March 1817
National Maritime Museum
Lapwing (1816); Fancy (1817); Kite (1817); Racer (1818); Sprightly (1818); Speedy (1828). No scale, possibly 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for Lapwing (1816), as fitted for a Revenue Cutter, and later used for Fancy (1817); Kite (181
Dated: 12 March 1817
National Maritime Museum
Sir William Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S. Engraved by W T Fry from an original Drawing made at Naples by C Grignon. Print
27 Mar 1817
National Maritime Museum
Enchantress (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Enchantress (1804), a 4-gun Ship Sloop as fitted in March 1817 for a quarantine vessel.
Signed by Edward Churchill [Master Shipwright, Plymouth
29 March 1817
National Maritime Museum
Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, 03/01/1820 (page 3 of 3)
Taken 1 Mar 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, 03/01/1820, Page 2
Taken 1 Mar 1820
The U.S. National Archives
Sir Francis Drake. From the original in the Collection of The Most Noble The Marquis of Lothian. Print
1 Mar 1820
National Maritime Museum
Hind (1814); Wye (1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the profile and plan of the stern quarter of Hind (1814), a 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloop, illustrating the fitting of an iron tiller and spiral wheel. According to a pencil annotation on ZAZ3983 this tiller
11 March 1820
National Maritime Museum
Powerful (1826); Monarch (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Powerful (1826), an 84-gun Second Rate, two-decker. The plan was later used for Monarch (1832), an 84-gun Second Rate, two-decker.
14 March 1820
National Maritime Museum
Captn. W.E. Parry RN Commander of the Polar Expedition 1819-20. Print
1 Mar 1821
National Maritime Museum
Henry Nugent Bell. Print [wrong image currently shown is an engraving of a medal of Odysseus, with an inscription in Greek on reverse, probably from Homer]
13 Mar 1821
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bourne in Feb 1822. Stored in mount with PAF7706.
Mar 1822
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bourne in Feb 1822. This print was originally published with an accompanying text sheet reading: 'A View of the 'Thames' East Indiaman, William Heaviside, Esq. Commander. Bur
March 1822
National Maritime Museum
Performing dogs, with a woman and a man playing a bagpipe and two children looking on. Mounted with PAE6632-PAE6635, PAE6637.
Mar 1822
National Maritime Museum
The Thames Indiaman, Ashore.... in Eastbourne Bay, Sunday Feby 3d 1822. Print
Mar 1822
National Maritime Museum
St Helena, Bearing N.W... distant 25 mins. Sketch. Bound with PAF2694-PAF2720.
31 March 1822
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Viscount Nelson. Painted by S. Dekoster. Engraved by Edward F. Finden London Pubd for the Proprieter March 1823. Print
Mar 1823
National Maritime Museum
The notorious Black Billy 'At Home' to a London Street Party. Coloured etching published by Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row. The scene is at Charing Cross, near the equestrian statue of Charles I. Billy Waters is entertaining the passing crowd
March 1823
National Maritime Museum
'Mrs Hannah More'. Hannah More was an important writer on a range of subjects including female education. She was an Evangelical believer in Christianity and strongly believed in the importance of action in the face of social injustice. Much o
1 March 1824
National Maritime Museum
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks. Signed by artist.
1 Mar 1824
National Maritime Museum
This plate representing the loss of the Belina West Indiaman, Captn Craig, on the Goodwin Sands, on the morning of the 23 Novr 1824 with the situation of the Deal Boats attempting to save the Crew. Print
Mar 1825
National Maritime Museum