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).
To... the Marquis of Lansdown... Chesterfield packet, Captn. Robt. Lea Jones rescuing the crew of a ship that was sinking.... Hand-coloured aquatint depicting the Chesterfield, a British Post Office packet, probably built in Falmouth. She was captured by
1 Jul 1795
National Maritime Museum
Crache Feu (captured 1795). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, and deck plan for the Crache Feu (captured 1795), a captured French 'brick canonneire', as taken off afloat in June 1795 prior to being fitted as a 3-gun (18 pounders) G
2 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
Eclair (1795). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile with one waterline, and full deck plan for the Eclair (1795), a 59 ft, 3 gun Lugger, later renamed Safety (1802), as taken off whilst afloat at Portsmouth. Signed Robert John Nelson (Master Sh
Dated: 2 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
Imperieuse (captured 1793). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard outline and some decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Imperieuse (captured 1793), a captured French 40-gun
11 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
Crache Feu (captured 1795). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard details, and longitudinal half-breadth for Crache Feu (1795), a captured French 'brick-canonniere' probably as taken off, prior to being fitted as a
20 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
Hound (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck with fore & aft platforms for Hound (1796), a 16-gun Brig Sloop building at Sandwich by Mr. Hills.
Signed John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
24 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
32 pounder carronade (1796). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the elevation, carriage plan, and deck plate plan for a 32 pounder carronade, fitting agreeable to General Bentham's directions, on board a river barge at Woolwich.
Circa July 1796
National Maritime Museum
This Portrait of His Majesty's Ship Glatton..... shewing her situation after Defeating the French Squadron, on the Night of the 15th July 1796. Print.
Dec 1796
National Maritime Museum
The Brunswick and Le Vengeur after the Action on the first of June 1794. Print. To the Memory of the Brave Capt John Harvey... This Print representing the Brunswick and Le Vengeur after the action on the first of June 1794. The first totally disabled, the
16 Jul 1796
National Maritime Museum
Explosion from His Majesty's Ship Boyne after having burnt to the Water's Edge, and grounded on the Horse Shoal near South Sea Castle. Print depicting an explosion from His Majesty's Ship Boyne (Vice-Admiral Sir John Jervis's flagship,
1 Jul 1797
National Maritime Museum
View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1795. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns (Vice-Admiral Sir John Jervis's flagship, in action in the West Indies in 1794) on fire at Spithead, May 179
1 Jul 1797
National Maritime Museum
Nelson in conflict with a Spanish launch at the blockade of Cadiz, 3 July 1797. Print
May 1809
National Maritime Museum
Nelson in conflict with a Spanish launch, 3 July 1797. After the Battle of St Vincent, 14 February 1797, the Spanish fleet was blockaded in Cadiz harbour by the British. The inshore squadron of the fleet was commanded by Sir Horatio Nelson. On 3 July, he
1806
National Maritime Museum
'Richard Parker President of the Delegates in the late Mutiny in his Majesty's Fleet at the Nore For which he sufferd Death on board the Sandwich the 30th of June 1797'. Richard Parker, as the caption states, was the leader of the naval mut
Published 8 July 1797
National Maritime Museum
'Sir Sidney Smith. Imprisoned in the Abbaye Paris on the 23rd April 1796. Transferred from thence to the Tower of the Temple on the 3rd July 1796'. Text in English below image. An oil painting either by Hennequin or based on this print is on loa
Published 20 July 1797
National Maritime Museum
Richard Parker who was executed on board the Sandwich off Sheerness on Friday June 30th 1797, pursuant to the sentence of a Court Martiall, for having been the Principal in a most daring Mutiny on board several of his Majesty's Ships at the Nore, &am
Published 21 July 1797
National Maritime Museum
Nelson wounded at Tenerife, 24 July 1797. After the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797, Nelson was stationed off Cadiz and was ordered to take possession of the town and harbour of Santa Cruz in Tenerife, where Spanish treasure ships were reporte
1806
National Maritime Museum
Nelson wounded in the arm, off the mole of Teneriffe, 24th July 1797. Print
1840
National Maritime Museum
Sir Horatio Nelson when wounded at Teneriffe, Night of July 24th 1797. A print after Richard Westall’s 1806 painting, ‘Nelson Wounded at Tenerife, 24 July 1797’, see BHC0498. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807 with the title,
1809
National Maritime Museum
Nelson's First letter written in the left hand. (Believed to be) Nelson's first letter written in the left hand. Writing to St Vincent following the loss of his right arm in the failed attack on Teneriffe, Nelson bemoans his injury and asks for
1797-07-27
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore and after platforms for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surve
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of th
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Nav
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [Sur
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle. The ship was re-ordered and launched in 1808 as Brazen.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Nav
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
Brazen (cancelled 1799); Brazen (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Brazen (cancelled 1799), an 18-gun Ship Sloop with quarterdeck and forecastle, and later when re-ordered
16 July 1798
National Maritime Museum
My Dearest Husband, I am now writing opposite to your Portrait the likeness is great - I am well satisfied with Abbott ...Our Good Father was delighted with the likeness...Your Affectionate Wife July 23rd - [1798] Frances H. Nelson. Print
1844
National Maritime Museum
My Dearest Husband, I am now writing opposite to your Portrait the likeness is great - I am well satisfied with Abbott.... Our Good Father was delighted with the likeness. Your affectionate Wife Frances H Nelson. July 23rd [1798]. Mounted with PAD4121-PAD
1798
National Maritime Museum
A view of Bastia. Vignette from the 'Naval Chronicle'; Stored in mount with PAD5979.
1 Jul 1799
National Maritime Museum
The Four Victorious British Admirals. Right Honourable Richd Earl Howe. Right Honourable Lord Visct Duncan. Right Honourable John Earl St Vincent. Right Honourable Lord Nelson. Hand-coloured.
8 Jul 1799
National Maritime Museum
Iohannis Penington Equitis Avrati Effigies. Generosiss Et Fortiss Militis. Technique includes etching.
1 Jul 1800
National Maritime Museum
View of English Harbour, Antigua Bay. Vignette. From the 'Naval Chronicle' vol. III, f.p.469, plate 35. The plate was published uncoloured.
1 Jul 1800
National Maritime Museum
31ft Longboat (circa 1801). Scale: 1:12. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details, for a single-masted thirty-one foot Longboat (circa 1801).
Signed by Thomas May [Unknown, possibly
July 1801
National Maritime Museum
French Fleet Defeated by Lord Berkeley and Harry Pay. Milford Haven Aug 1405. Print
1 Jul 1801
National Maritime Museum
Speedy sloop of War Attacked by Spanish Gun-Boats. Vignette.; Technique includes etching.
1 Jul 1801
National Maritime Museum
Defeat of the combined French & Spanish squadrons by Sir James Saumarez, 13 July 1801. Print
1838
National Maritime Museum
A View of Admiral Lord Nelson's Attack upon the Danish Line, before Copenhagen. April 2nd 1801. Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.; Plate 1.
20 Jul 1801
National Maritime Museum
From Alexr Davison Esqr St. James's square- A Tribute of Regard Fig.1, Fig 4. Gentleman's Magazine July 1802, plI p.609. Technique includes etching.
Jul 1802
National Maritime Museum
Representation of the advanced Squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Lord Nelson during the blockade of Cadiz exhibiting a View of the Harbour and fortifications, 1797. Print
1 Jul 1802
National Maritime Museum
Trinkwasser-Quelle im Hyde-Park zu London
3 July 1802
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
King Canute. The Dane Canute invaded England in 1015 and took control of virtually the whole country, except for the city of London. At the death of Æthelred II, in 1016, the Londoners chose Edmund II as their king, but the Witan (Anglo-Saxon parlia
31 Jul 1802
National Maritime Museum
'Dove' (1805?). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Dove' (1805?), a four gun despatch cutter as fitted at Deptford Dockyard. There is some confusion as to whether this is the ve
July 1803
National Maritime Museum
27ft Gunboat (no date). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer line with inboard detail, deck plan with longitudinal half-breadth for a 27ft Gunboats to be built by Contract. The plan also includes dimensions and scantling. The reverse states t
July 1803
National Maritime Museum
23 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and a half-breadth deck plan with the longitudinal half-breadth, for a proposed 23 ft Yawl.
Signed by Henry Peake [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 1803 -1806;
1 July 1803
National Maritime Museum
Sir John Douglas Colonel of the Marines at the Defence of Acre. Text in English on reverse.
10 Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
26 ft and 27ft Gunboat (1803). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 26ft (modified to 27ft) Gunboat to be built by Contract. The plan states that the six gunboats were fitted with
13 July 1803
National Maritime Museum
Cape Maize (Cuba) N E Distance 6 or 7 Miles at 3 PM July 15th 1803. Medium includes pen and ink.
Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
The defeat of a French Squadron off the Chesapeak by Captn. Cochrane, March 17 1795. Technique includes etching.
23 Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
Right Honble Lord Keith K.B. Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron. Print
31 Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
Alexander Hamilton's "Statement of My Property and Debts, with Remarks", 07/01/1804 (page 2 of 4)
Taken 1 Jul 1804
The U.S. National Archives
Alexander Hamilton's "Statement of My Property and Debts, with Remarks", 07/01/1804 (page 4 of 4)
Taken 1 Jul 1804
The U.S. National Archives
The Trinity Flotilla at the Hope near Gravesend, in Line of Battle, 1804. Technique includes etching.; Mounted with PAD5925.
1 Jul 1804
National Maritime Museum
The Way to Stop a Yarmouth Cart! (caricature). Mounted with PAG8552.; Hand-coloured.; No.41.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
John Schank Esqr, RN. European Magazine. Print, from the oil portrait which is now NMM BHC3014.
1 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Lads of the Ocean, Sung with the Greatest Applause by Mr Taylor, of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
22 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Nathaniel Dance. To the Society of East India Commanders This Print is respectfully dedicated by their oblig'd & obedt. servt. Robt Cribb. Print
24 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Trafalgar Garter (caricature). 'Argus' is a pseudonym of Charles Williams
Jul 1806
National Maritime Museum
The Funeral Barge which conveyed the Body of the late Lord Nelson from Greenwich to Whitehall Jan 8th 1806. Technique includes roulette work.
1 Jul 1806
National Maritime Museum
Carnatic (1783). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the inboard profile, roundhouse, spar deck, upper deck, lower deck, orlop deck, and fore platform for Carnatic (1783), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted for a Receiving Ship at Plymouth Dockyard between
17 July 1806
National Maritime Museum
An Exact Representation of Mr F.C. Daniels, Life Preserver as exhibited on the 21st of July 1806 passing through London Bridge to Gun Dock, Wapping (Lifeboats 14). An exact representation of Mr F.C. Daniels, Life Preserver with 14 lifeboats as exhibited o
1806
National Maritime Museum
The Long Room. Custom House. Plate 28. Print of the interior of the Custom House long room with everyone paying their port dues, sorting out imports and export clearances.
1 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
No 3. H.M. Ship Seahorse Captain John Stewart. At daylight on the 6th July 1808 making the Turkish Frigate strike; the Corvette not to be seen, her fate unknown..... Medium includes graphite and pen and ink.; Stored in old mount with PAF4770-PAF4771, PAF4
6 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
Ceres (1808?). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing the profile with some inboard detail, and deck for Ceres (1808?), a lighter fitted for lashing up anchors at Cork.
Signed by Robert John Nelson [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 1806-1813].
7 July 1808
National Maritime Museum
Tom Tack's Ghost (caricature). Signed by artist. Depicts clothing, outerwear: dress, seaman's. This appears to have been purchased in 1948 with the title 'Apparation on the Gun Deck' so the details given above are presumably from the p
24 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
Common Boat; Handsome pleasure Boat; Thames Sculler; The Lord Mayor of London's State Barge launched 1807; Stern of the Lord Mayor's Barge; Deal Barge; Dutchman's Stern. Technique includes etching.; Stored with PAD7747-PAD7749.
This print s
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
Jolly boat for oars or sail. Handsome launch; Tunny; River Thames fishing or Peter Boat; Ships Boat; Patent Boats; A ship's Long Boat. Technique includes etching.; Stored with PAD7747-PAD7748, PAD7750.
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
South Sea Whale fishing boat; Limehouse Skiff; the Lambeth boat, hired by pleasuring parties; the Bow & the starboard Quarter of the sailing boat Bellissima; the Larboard side of the Aeolus sailing boat; the Olive Branch sailing boat. Technique includ
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
South Seas Whale fishery boat; Limehouse skiff; the Lambeth boat, hired by pleasuring parties; the Bow & the starboard Quarter of the sailing boat Bellissima; the Larboard side of the Aeolus sailing boat; the Olive Branch sailing boat. Technique inclu
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
18 pound Carronade. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing a plan and elevation of an 18 pounder carronade filling to the poop with trucks "for the more easy removing them to the right aft port on the poop".
Note that there is a duplicate of this plan.
Dated 30 July 1808
National Maritime Museum