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).
Company Serjeant Major George Thomas Verrall S/923, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Lindsay John Robert Macpherson 1910. Unit: 113th Howitzer Battery, 13th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Ellis. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Sutcliffe Shackleton , Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Mary Nicholls, Women's Land Army. Accidentally killed on duty 16 April 1917.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mary Nicholls, Women's Land Army. Accidentally killed on duty 16 April 1917.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Beer L/10976, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Bernard Keogh 5126. Unit: D Company, 11th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 missing, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank Potter 1643, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Francis Penwell G/27841, Middlesex Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Percival Irwin G/16645. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusilliers. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front. Son of James and Emily Irwin, of 78, Harleyford Rd., Kennington, London.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry John Weston , Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Joseph White 21340, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace Clarke 242159, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Albert McNay 6328. Unit: 20th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John James Clark M2/156141, Army Service Corps
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Stanley Hargreaves 235280, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Kelly 1232. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Loincecourt, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Douglas Inskipp , Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Richard Creswell Vaughan , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Harold Noel Darling Guthrie GS/2363, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Sidney George Charles Baker 9711, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Walter Harold Servante 390521, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sgt Servante served with B Company. He died of wounds, aged 26, on 16 April 1917. Sgt Servante is buried at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Leslie Foulds MC. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Driver Sidney Woodbury 285. Unit: 4th Section, 5th Australian Machine Gun Company, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Façade de maison après la pluie, Djeddah, Arabie, A 15 634
16 avril 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Gunner John Alexander Dwan 35528, Australian Field Artillery
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Jeune femme soudanaise et son enfant, Djeddah, Arabie, A 15 636
16 avril 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Lance Corporal Frank Sharp 241859. Unit: 2nd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918 Missing
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Michael Ribeiro 1617, Australian Infantry
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Richard Thomas Tart, M.M. S/14680, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arthur Percival Fitzmaurice Meyer , Australian Imperial Force
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant George Beaver Croucher , Royal Naval Reserve
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Pier Willem van Oppen , East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lt Van Oppen enlisted in August 1914 and received his commission in September 1915, rising to the rank of lieutenant in July 1917. He was posted to the Western Front on 6 April 1918, was wounded on 12 April and died in hospital, aged 31, on 16 April 191
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Sir John Christopher Willoughby , Army Service Corps
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Miss Annie Adamson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of sickness contracted in the service of the French Red Cross 16 April 1918.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Ordinary Seaman William Wesson J40028, H.M.S. "Victory I"
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Gilmour Forrester 220324, Cameron Highlanders
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert John Summersby 40416, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Grant 242147, Highland Light Infantry
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Grant 242147. Unit: "C" Company, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 16 April 1918, Western Front. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Ernest Rowlands 26739, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Edward Randle 20201, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Leslie Brace 201415, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Pearson 201203, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Herbert Henry Ware 535060, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Stephen Handley 51925, Cheshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Wilfred Bellamy 59592, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick Cumber Baxter , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick Cumber Baxter. Unit: C Company, 1st/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Cox , Attached Machine Gun Corps
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Harry John Nicklin , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Walter Stanley Bell , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Ernest George Weetman 2450. Unit: B Company, 43rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant William Alfred Ellinor 47437, Royal Field Artillery
Died 16 April 1918
Lives of the First World War