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).
"Radishes! Penny a bunch!" Boys and girls sell all day until 11 P.M. Cincinnati, OH, 08/22/1908
Taken 22 Aug 1908
The U.S. National Archives
Visit of American Fleet to Sydney : public schools display, Sydney Cricket Ground, 26th Aug, 1908 / photographer G.A. Hills
Taken 26 Aug 1908
State Library of New South Wales collection
Politics and the fatal "R" begin this week their deadly work upon the oyster (LOC)
Taken 30 Aug 1908
The Library of Congress
Blossom Gate, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
Taken some time in Aug 1909
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Pineapple and fruit display at the Jubilee Exhibition, Brisbane, 1909
Taken some time in Aug 1909
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Wreck on DeLand branch at foot of reverse curve
Taken 1 Aug 1909
State Library and Archives of Florida
Wedding of W. McGavin and E. I. Hamilton in 1909
Taken 25 Aug 1909
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Some of E.H. Harriman's greatest feats in railroad construction (LOC)
Taken 29 Aug 1909
The Library of Congress
Young doffer in North Pownal Mill. North Pownal, Vt, August 1910
Taken some time in Aug 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Youngster making bands, cotton mill. Clarence Noel, 11 years old. North Pownal, Vt, August 1910
Taken some time in Aug 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Picturesque interior quadrangle of the new home of Union Theological Seminary, to be opened next month (LOC)
Taken 21 Aug 1910
The Library of Congress
Pure joy is no respecter of purses at the seashore in the summer time (LOC)
Taken 28 Aug 1910
The Library of Congress
5 year old Preston, a young cartoner, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
All these boys are cutters in a Canning Co, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
All work in the Butler Mills. New Bedford, Mass, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
Group of workers in the Sagamore Mfg. Co. Fall River, Mass, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
Group of young cartoners in Seacoast Canning Co. Not the youngest. Eastport, Me, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
One of the small cutters at work. Eastport, Me, August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
While I was photographing these workers, the watchman dragged out the smallest boy, saying, "Here photograph Pewee," August 1911
Taken some time in Aug 1911
The U.S. National Archives
Children of Henry Charles Coxen photographed with their nurse August 1912
Taken some time in Aug 1912
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Kaptein Johan Samuelsen og Fridtjof Nansen på broen ombord i «Correct».
Taken some time in Aug 1913
National Library of Norway
Such Meeting or Assemblage is seditious...
Taken 29 Aug 1913
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Belgische infanterie in de kazerne te Antwerpen, 4 augustus 1914 | Belgian infantry in the barracks in Antwerp, 4 August 1914
Taken 4 Aug 1914
Liberas / Liberaal Archief
Duitse krijgsgevangenen in het stadhuis van Diest, 13 augustus 1914 | German POWs in the city hall of Diest, 13 August 1914
Taken 13 Aug 1914
Liberas / Liberaal Archief
Duitse pinhelmen worden tentoongesteld in het stadhuis van Diest, 13 augustus 1914 | German pin helmets captured on the battlefield are exposed in the city hall of Diest, 13 August 1914
Taken 13 Aug 1914
Liberas / Liberaal Archief
Het slagveld bij Halen - de Zelk Barricade, 13 augustus 1914 | The battlefield at Halen - the Zelk Barricade, 13 August 1914
Taken 13 Aug 1914
Liberas / Liberaal Archief
Australian troops marching along Macquarie Street, Sydney
Taken 18 Aug 1914
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Australian troops marching on Randwick Road in Sydney
Taken 18 Aug 1914
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
John Stewart, miner, arrested for stealing ducks and hens
Taken 24 Aug 1914
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Funeral of O'Donovan Rossa, graveside in Glasnevin Cemetery, St. James's band, crowds
Taken 1 Aug 1915
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Italian airship being paraded on a De Dion truck, Patriotic Day, Brisbane, August 1915
Taken some time in Aug 1915
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Queensland Patriotic Day at the Exhibition grounds, Brisbane, 1915
Taken 28 Aug 1915
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Queensland Patriotic Day parade, Brisbane, 1915
Taken 28 Aug 1915
State Library of Queensland, Australia
John Hicks and Co, patriotic float, Brisbane, 1916
Taken some time in Aug 1916
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Members of the 58th Battalion reinforcements awaiting embarkation
Taken some time in Aug 1916
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Cons: Machine Gun. C. P. Negras. Segunda Brigada del Noreste del Gral. F. Murguía.
Taken 3 Aug 1916
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
The troopship KAROOLA about to embark from Melbourne, WW1
Taken 19 Aug 1916
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
[Australian infantrymen yarn around a campfire behind the lines, near Renescue, Flanders, August 1917] [Frank Hurley]
Taken some time in Aug 1917
National Library of Australia Commons
Civil War Veterans reunion on August 31, 1917: Madison, Florida
Taken 31 Aug 1917
State Library and Archives of Florida
Congress group : commissioned by Mr. Larkin
Taken some time in Aug 1918
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Wood chopping competition at New Zealand Base Depot Sports, Etaples, 3 August 1918
Taken 3 Aug 1918
National Library NZ on The Commons
Young girl standing in front of a crop of napier grass: Okeechobee, Florida
Taken 22 Aug 1918
State Library and Archives of Florida
Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe’s flagship HMS NEW ZEALAND in the Sutherland Dock at Cockatoo Island
Taken some time in Aug 1919
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Aileen Bell with Edward Prince of Wales
Taken some time in Aug 1920
State Library of Queensland, Australia
"Downing Street? Treaty Negotiations?" is at least half-wrong
Taken 17 Aug 1921
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Regulars and irregulars on opposite sides(?)
Taken some time in Aug 1922
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Secret Destination? Probably Passage West in Cork
Taken some time in Aug 1922
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Langley (CV1), formerly the Jupiter. Aerial, bow on, plane on deck, 08/03/1923
Taken 3 Aug 1923
The U.S. National Archives