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All 22426American Air Museum
American Air Museum 366
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 1991
Vänersborgs museum 724
Bohusläns museum 580
Sjöhistoriska museet 538
Kulturarv Västernorrland 486
Rijksmuseum 352
Tekniska museet 109
Örebro läns museum 78
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 64
Flygvapenmuseum 54
Marinmuseum 49
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 46
Riksantikvarieämbetet 45
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 43
Historisch Museum Ede 39
Miliseum 27
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 16
CODA Museum 14
Ajuntament de Girona 14
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 12
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 9
Skansen 4
Cluj County Library 3
Upplandsmuseet 3
Stichting Liemers Museum 3
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 3
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 2
Sundsvalls museum 1
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 1
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1
Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs 1
Aaltense Musea 1
Horniman Museum and Gardens 1
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 1
Stadskasteel Zaltbommel 1
Postmuseum 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 109
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 71
State Library and Archives of Florida 61
bibliothequedetoulouse 56
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 51
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 41
State Library of Queensland, Australia 32
National Museum of Denmark 28
State Library of New South Wales collection 28
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 22
MissouriStateArchives 18
NASA on The Commons 18
National Library NZ on The Commons 17
The Library of Congress 14
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 13
Swedish National Heritage Board 10
National Library of Norway 8
Provincial Archives of Alberta 8
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 7
National Archives of Estonia 7
Australian War Memorial collection 6
Costică Acsinte Archive 5
UW Digital Collections 5
Deseronto Archives 5
The National Archives UK 4
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 3
National Science and Media Museum 2
Royal Australian Historical Society 2
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 2
Powerhouse Museum Collection 2
National Library of Australia Commons 2
Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane 1
Kalamazoo Public Library 1
Center for Jewish History, NYC 1
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 1
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 1
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 7301
Imperial War Museums
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 1567
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 991
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 960
Other 250
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 216
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 99
Womens War Work 88
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 74
War Office Second World War Official Collection 63
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 61
First World War Womens War Work Collection 40
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 35
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 26
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 25
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 22
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 18
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 18
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 18
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 17
Deaths: Nurses General 16
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 14
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 13
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June - July 1918 10
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 9
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 9
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 9
Belfast Telegraph Collection 9
Zimnal Marian (lieutenant Colonel) Collection 03 6
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Red Cross (joint War Committee) 1920 6
Lachmann Gustav Collection 6
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 6
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 6
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 6
The Royal Navy 1914 - 1918 5
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 April - June 1917 5
Joel H 5
Italian First World War Official Collection 4
Medals And Decorations: Royal Red Cross 4
British Aircraft And Early Aircraft In Other Museums And Institutions 1913 - 1918 (gsa 129) 4
Admiralty Official Collection 3
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 3
Cooke G H (lieutenant Colonel) 3
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 3
Broom Albert (mrs) 3
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 3
Deaths: Other Services- Munition Workers 3
The Road To War 2
Australian Forces In Gallipoli 1915 - 1916 2
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 2
Pitman Thomas Tait (major-general) Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 1
War Office, Central Office Of Information And American Second World War Official Collection 1
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 1
War Office First World War Official Collection 1
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 1
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 July 1918 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 3360
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 412
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 161
Historic Photographic Negatives 35
Oil Paintings 10
Charts & Maps 8
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 5
Coins & Commemorative Medals 3
Historic Photograph Albums 2
Miscellaneous Antiquities 2
Horological Instruments 2
Navigational Instruments 1
Archive 1
Year
All 6631800 2
1839 1
1842 1
1845 2
1850 1
1855 2
1856 1
1860 1
1862 1
1864 4
1871 1
1873 1
1877 1
1879 3
1888 2
1889 4
1890 2
1892 2
1896 2
1897 1
1898 4
1899 5
1900 8
1901 5
1902 26
1903 6
1904 13
1905 10
1906 7
1907 6
1908 10
1909 30
1910 30
1911 15
1912 11
1913 2
1914 10
1915 14
1916 10
1917 2
1918 29
1919 16
1920 2
1922 3
1923 4
1924 4
1925 7
1926 3
1927 3
1928 6
1929 3
1930 4
1931 2
1932 3
1933 16
1934 6
1935 11
1936 2
1937 12
1938 27
1939 17
1940 7
1941 2
1942 3
1943 1
1944 2
1945 28
1946 2
1947 11
1948 10
1949 5
1950 7
1951 4
1952 6
1953 9
1954 7
1955 2
1956 7
1957 6
1958 3
1959 14
1960 4
1961 16
1962 21
1963 8
1964 4
1965 7
1966 7
1967 1
1968 8
1969 12
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).
