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All 19902American Air Museum
American Air Museum 396
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 2039
Vänersborgs museum 1075
Bohusläns museum 664
Kulturarv Västernorrland 479
Sjöhistoriska museet 439
Rijksmuseum 247
Tekniska museet 210
Örebro läns museum 144
Flygvapenmuseum 92
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 80
Miliseum 50
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 46
Marinmuseum 44
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 19
Upplandsmuseet 16
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 14
Historisch Museum Ede 12
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 10
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 9
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 7
Images of Old Cluj 6
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 6
CODA Museum 5
Aaltense Musea 5
Ajuntament de Girona 4
Riksantikvarieämbetet 3
Postmuseum 3
Lietuvos Å¡vietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History 2
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 1
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 1
Stichting Liemers Museum 1
A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vien 1
Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives 102
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 66
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 57
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 55
bibliothequedetoulouse 42
State Library and Archives of Florida 41
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 40
State Library of Queensland, Australia 29
Deseronto Archives 24
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 20
UW Digital Collections 19
NASA on The Commons 17
MissouriStateArchives 16
National Archives of Estonia 14
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 12
State Library of New South Wales collection 11
National Library of Norway 11
The Library of Congress 10
Australian War Memorial collection 8
National Library of Australia Commons 7
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 6
Powerhouse Museum Collection 5
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 4
Swedish National Heritage Board 4
Provincial Archives of Alberta 3
Museum of Hartlepool 3
Royal Australian Historical Society 3
National Museum of Denmark 3
National Library NZ on The Commons 3
Costică Acsinte Archive 2
The National Archives UK 1
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 7128
Imperial War Museums
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 882
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 771
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 436
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 307
Other 225
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 179
Womens War Work 77
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 42
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June - July 1918 37
Belfast Telegraph Collection 31
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June 1918 28
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 27
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 26
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 24
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 24
War Office Second World War Official Collection 14
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 13
Italian First World War Official Collection 13
Masters David 12
Admiralty Official Collection 12
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 11
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 11
The British Army In North-west Europe 1944-1945 10
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 9
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 9
Deaths: Nurses General 8
First World War Womens War Work Collection 7
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 7
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 April - June 1917 6
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 6
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 6
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 5
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 4
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 4
War Office First World War Official Collection 4
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 3
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 3
The Road To War 3
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 3
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 3
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August 1918 3
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 3
The Coronation Of Emperor Charles Of Austria As King Of Hungary In Budapest 1916 & Scenes In Austria 3
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 July 1918 2
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 2
Deaths: Other Services- Waacs 2
War Diary In Four Volumes 2
War Office, Central Office Of Information And American Second World War Official Collection 1
Slater Percival James (colonel) Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Red Cross (joint War Committee) 1920 1
Cooke G H (lieutenant Colonel) 1
British Aircraft And Early Aircraft In Other Museums And Institutions 1913 - 1918 (gsa 129) 1
Deaths: Other Services- Munition Workers 1
Broom Albert (mrs) 1
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 1
Ministry Of Information First World War Unofficial Collection 1
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 1968
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 445
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 178
Historic Photographic Negatives 34
Oil Paintings 16
Charts & Maps 13
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 7
Coins & Commemorative Medals 6
Glass 1
Archive 1
Historic Photographic Prints 1
Miscellaneous Antiquities 1
Ship Models 1
Year
All 71281909 168
1910 5
1911 39
1912 269
1913 316
1914 310
1915 25
1916 701
1917 387
1918 156
1919 302
1920 790
1921 536
1922 191
1923 97
1924 929
1925 177
1926 602
1927 431
1928 78
1929 410
1930 170
1931 26
1932 2
1934 11
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).