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Bohusläns museum 29
Vänersborgs museum 15
Sjöhistoriska museet 9
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 6
Rijksmuseum 4
Tekniska museet 2
Marinmuseum 1
Flickr Commons
State Library of Queensland, Australia 4
MissouriStateArchives 3
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 2
Imperial War Museums
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 258
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 160
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 146
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 61
Other 21
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 6
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 5
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 4
Womens War Work 3
Cooke G H (lieutenant Colonel) 1
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 926
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1745 4
1749 1
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1758 6
1759 1
1768 1
1771 1
1775 4
1777 2
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1779 8
1780 1
1781 5
1782 3
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1786 1
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1792 2
1793 3
1794 5
1795 5
1796 2
1797 4
1798 3
1799 6
1800 7
1801 17
1802 6
1803 3
1804 5
1805 7
1806 4
1807 6
1808 4
1809 9
1810 16
1811 2
1812 3
1813 16
1814 6
1815 21
1816 8
1817 2
1818 4
1819 3
1820 13
1821 7
1822 12
1823 2
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1825 7
1826 2
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1828 14
1829 6
1830 18
1831 5
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1834 4
1835 7
1836 12
1837 10
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1839 4
1840 1
1841 3
1842 1
1843 6
1844 6
1845 23
1846 3
1847 1
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1849 10
1850 8
1851 11
1852 6
1853 9
1854 6
1855 10
1856 7
1857 10
1858 3
1859 7
1860 4
1861 12
1862 12
1863 6
1864 2
1865 11
1866 3
1867 5
1868 7
1869 20
1870 10
1871 6
1872 3
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1874 5
1875 4
1876 7
1877 2
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1879 6
1880 19
1881 2
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1887 11
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1889 13
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1891 11
1892 6
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1895 27
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1898 41
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1900 36
1901 60
1902 20
1903 17
1904 17
1905 22
1906 15
1907 64
1908 47
1909 128
1910 222
1911 126
1912 203
1913 464
1914 904
1915 1109
1916 1667
1917 1814
1918 2753
1919 545
1920 762
1921 162
1922 959
1923 686
1924 903
1925 724
1926 487
1927 635
1928 573
1929 160
1930 202
1931 150
1932 40
1933 61
1934 49
1935 58
1936 100
1937 122
1938 74
1939 147
1940 141
1941 69
1942 125
1943 340
1944 329
1945 90
1946 79
1947 133
1948 99
1949 134
1950 268
1951 145
1952 217
1953 128
1954 278
1955 397
1956 149
1957 112
1958 144
1959 100
1960 127
1961 144
1962 84
1963 76
1964 84
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1966 81
1967 67
1968 73
1969 434
1970 4
1971 6
1972 2
1973 1
1974 3
1975 2
1976 2
1977 4
1978 8
1979 5
1981 4
1983 1
1984 4
1985 5
1986 4
1987 4
1988 2
1989 2
1990 1
1991 6
1992 2
1993 3
1994 4
1995 3
1996 1
1997 4
1998 6
1999 6
2000 3
2001 4
2002 5
2003 6
2004 3
2005 4
2006 6
2007 6
2008 3
2009 4
2010 3
2011 4
2012 12
2013 3
2014 1
2015 6
2016 1
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).
