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).
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1835-04-20
20 April 1835
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
The East India Ship 'Duke of Buccleuch', (Captn Alexr Henning) in a Hurricane off the Mauritius, attempting to wear. Print entitled 'The East India Ship 'Duke of Buccleuch', (Captn Alexr Henning) in a Hurricane off the Mauritius,
6 April 1836
National Maritime Museum
Proposal for a chain shackle attachment. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing a section through an Orlop Deck beam end with a proposal for passing a chain and shackle round the beam for attaching the Hempen cable, instead of the common clench.
Signed by Richard
13 April 1836
National Maritime Museum
A plough at Foster's Farm, Redleaf. Mounted with PAE5579-PAE5580.
19 Apr 1836
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1837-04-01
1 April 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
No XVI About 10 PM April 19th a barrier about 20 feet high was thrown up close to the ship.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0269, PAF0271-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No.479. Something between the sublime & the ridiculous, A conservative vision - a little premature (caricature). Print
27 Apr 1837
National Maritime Museum
'A Greenwich Pensioner!' HB sketches No.532. See description and notes for PAH3323, another copy.
3 April 1838
National Maritime Museum
A Greenwich Pensioner! [caricature of Richard Lalor Shiel MP]. HB Sketches No. 532. See also other copies: PAI5996 and PAF4083. This shows Richard Lalor Shiel (1791-1851), a Kilkenny-born Irish Catholic, educated at Stonyhurst and Trinity College Dublin,
3 April 1838
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No 532. A Greenwich Pensioner (caricature). See description and notes for PAH3323, another copy. PvdM 4/04
3 Apr 1838
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S Pembroke in a squall April 12th 1839, Dedicated to Captn Fairfax Moresby, C.B. Print
1840
National Maritime Museum
Princess Charlotte in Malta Harbour by Moonlight - 13th April 1839. Signed by artist and dated, on reverse.
13 Apr 1839
National Maritime Museum
Slough. The 40ft reflector in process of demolition. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fearing the by then severely rotten frame might
3 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Slough. The 40ft reflector with all the woodwork down'. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fearing the severely rotten frame
5 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
'Slough. View of the garden of the 40ft reflector dismantled. From roof of Observatory'. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fe
19 April 1840
National Maritime Museum
F Marryat. Print. The original drawing, facing left, is PAG6839. Like that it is inscribed '...Orsay fecit / Avril 184l' and bears the signature of the sitter, in this case both in reproduction. It is from d' Orsay's 'Drawings of
Apr 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with elevations and sections of fittings for Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Richard Blake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard,
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with elevations of cupboards, bulkheads, doors, storage, ship's library, and other details for Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle illustrating the fittings on deck for Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard. Note the enclosed waist with permanent gangways. The plan
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with elevations and sections of fittings for Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Richard Blake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard,
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scales: 1:48, 1:24, 1:6. Plan showing the roundhouse (poop) illustrating the elevations and plans for the companionways, colour lockers, stantion posts, and elevation of the insode of a gunport on Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, t
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835); Collingwood (1841). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile illustrating the fittings for Vanguard (1835), and with alterations dated March 1844 for fitting Collingwood (1841), both 80-gun Second Rate, two-deckers. Collingwood was c
17 April 1841
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Stag 1830. Medium includes pen and brown ink.; Signed by artist and dated.
Apr 1843
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Journal des demoiselles' 1843-04-01
1 April 1843
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Annotated drawing of a schooner, 24 April 1843. No. 4 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
The schooner is not identified, but the figurehead is an eagle which may suggest the vessel’s name. The way in which Schetky uses annotations may have been learnt from
24 April 1843
National Maritime Museum
Annotated drawing of 'Larkins East Indiaman, April 27th (Thursday) 1843'. No. 5 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
If the inscription on PAH3777 is correctly read, Schetky made drawings of the 'Larkins' in the East India Docks. Schetky urged h
27 April 1843
National Maritime Museum
The passenger liner Great Britain (1843) at Brandon Warf, Bristol.. A rough cut salted paper print. A starboard quarter view of the passenger liner Great Britain (1844) dried out alongside the gas work’s Brandon Wharf at Canon’s Marsh, Bristo
April-May 1844
National Maritime Museum
The passenger liner Great Britain (1843) at Brandon Warf, Bristol.. A waxed paper calotype negative. A starboard quarter view of the passenger liner Great Britain (1844) dried out alongside the gas work’s Brandon Wharf at Canon’s Marsh, Brist
April-May 1844
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Journal des demoiselles' 1844-04-01
1 April 1844
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Journal des demoiselles' 1845-04-01
1 April 1845
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Loss of the Steamboat Swallow while on her trip from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845. When opposite Athens she struck a large rock, took fire broke in two and sunk-By which melancholy occurrance, it is supposed that nearly 40 lives we
1845
National Maritime Museum
Distribution of the 'Nelson Medals', in the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital. Mounted on sheet with PAI8814-PAI8815, PAI8817. This is taken from from the 'Illustrated London News' 12 April 1845, p. 240. It shows a Pensioner coming back
Unknown
National Maritime Museum
A view of Naples from the east with lateen-rigged ships drawn up on the shore.. A waxed paper calotype negative. A view from the shore behind five lateen-rigged ships drawn up on the shore, looking towards Naples to the east. The left of the image has t
April 1846
National Maritime Museum
A view of Naples from the east with lateen-rigged ships drawn up on the shore.. A whole plate size salted paper print. A view from the shore behind five lateen-rigged ships drawn up on the shore, looking towards Naples to the east. The left of the image
April 1846
National Maritime Museum
Ships moored in the Bay of Baiae, near Naples. A whole plate size salted paper print. A view from an elevated position looking out to sea at the Bay of Baiae, Italy. The photograph may have been taken from the Roman ruins above the port. In the foregrou
Mid-late April 1846
National Maritime Museum
To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria this Print The Signing and Sealing of the Treaty of Nanking...(signed on board H.M.S. Cornwallis 29 August 1842). Mezzotint in wooden frame. Hand-coloured. Medium includes gum arabic.
20 April 1846
National Maritime Museum
Study of the head and shoulders of a young woman with a middle parting. This 'study of the head and shoulders of a young woman with a middle parting' was done by Louisa Herschel when she was 12 years old. The 'young woman' in question
12 April 1847
National Maritime Museum
Bermuda (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship profile and plan illustrating the pivot gun, as proposed to be fitted to Bermuda (1848), a 3-gun Schooner building in Bermuda.
17 April 1847
National Maritime Museum
Naval Portfolio No.2. Naval Scenes in the Mexican War by H Walke Lieut US Navy The US Naval Expedition under Comore M C Perry... taking possession of the Port of Tuspan... April 19th 1847. Hand-coloured.
1848
National Maritime Museum
Steering Wheel (1849). Various scales. Plan showing the side and front elevation of a steering wheel, and detail elevations of the bolts and rings for a steeering wheel, illustrating how they are built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed John Fincham [Master
7 April 1849
National Maritime Museum
'The extinct volcanoes Viejo and Monotomba, Realejo [Nicaragua], April 5th 1850'. No. 38 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. A linking passage by Fanshawe's daugh
5 April 1850
National Maritime Museum
Phaeton (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold with sections through stations at A, B, C, D illustrating the barrel stowage, magazine, water tanks and stores for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun large Frigate. The ship was built at Deptford but completed at
8 April 1850
National Maritime Museum
Phaeton (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck illustrating the tiller ropes, shot layout and fittings for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun large Frigate. The ship was built at Deptford but completed at Sheerness Dockyard.
Signed by Sameul Read [Mast
8 April 1850
National Maritime Museum
Phaeton (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck illustrating the details of the store rooms for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun large Frigate. The ship was built at Deptford but completed at Sheerness Dockyard.
Signed by Samuel Read [Master Shipwrigh
8 April 1850
National Maritime Museum
The Bianca Schooner Yacht. R.Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Stored in mount with PAD6544.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum
The Sapphire (M. Gibson Esqre) R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAD6562.
20 Apr 1850
National Maritime Museum
De schuttersmaaltijd in de Voetboog- of St. Jorisdoelen te Amsterdam ter viering van het sluiten van de vrede van Munster, 18 juni 1648
4 April 1851
Rijksmuseum
The Musquito Cutter Yacht- in stays. R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps. Print
14 Apr 1851
National Maritime Museum