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All 23161American Air Museum
American Air Museum 349
Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 1829
Sjöhistoriska museet 987
Vänersborgs museum 832
Bohusläns museum 692
Rijksmuseum 332
Kulturarv Västernorrland 280
Örebro läns museum 266
Tekniska museet 121
Miliseum 97
Flygvapenmuseum 74
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 68
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 53
Historisch Museum Ede 43
Marinmuseum 33
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen 26
CODA Museum 15
Upplandsmuseet 14
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 14
National library of Montenegro "ÄurÄ‘e Crnojević" 6
Riksantikvarieämbetet 5
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 4
INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest 4
Aaltense Musea 3
Stadskasteel Zaltbommel 2
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 2
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 2
Ajuntament de Girona 2
Images of Old Cluj 1
Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár 1
National Library of Bulgaria 1
Δήμος ΤÏίπολης 1
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 1
Deventer Musea 1
Flickr Commons
bibliothequedetoulouse 117
The U.S. National Archives 73
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 42
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 38
Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums 35
State Library and Archives of Florida 33
State Library of Queensland, Australia 32
MissouriStateArchives 31
State Library of New South Wales collection 21
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 21
Deseronto Archives 20
NASA on The Commons 19
UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 15
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 15
The Library of Congress 13
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 12
National Library of Norway 11
Royal Australian Historical Society 11
National Archives of Estonia 9
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 9
National Library of Australia Commons 6
Australian War Memorial collection 5
Provincial Archives of Alberta 4
UW Digital Collections 4
Swedish National Heritage Board 3
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives 3
National Library NZ on The Commons 2
The Gallen-Kallela Museum 2
The Finnish Museum of Photography 2
Getty Research Institute 1
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 1
Stockholm Transport Museum Commons 1
National Museum of Denmark 1
Costică Acsinte Archive 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 8062
Imperial War Museums
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 1005
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 943
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 832
Other 329
Freeman Roger (mr) Collection 328
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 191
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 60
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 September 1917 55
Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920 51
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 40
Ministry Of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection 29
Ministry Of Information Second World War Censorship Bureau Library Of Press Photographs: Classified 25
War Office Second World War Official Collection 22
Admiralty Official Collection 20
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 19
Womens War Work 18
Imperial War Museum First World War Maps Collection 17
Medals And Decorations: Military Medal 14
Canadian First World War Official Exchange Collection 13
War Office First World War Official Collection 13
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 12
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Colonial Nursing Services 12
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection 11
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 10
Corporation Of The City Of London Collection 8
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 8
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 8
Lachmann Gustav Collection 8
Deaths: Other Services- Munition Workers 8
British Post-1945 Official Classified Print Collection 7
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 7
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 6
Deaths: Nurses- Serbian Relief Fund 6
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 6
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 6
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August - September 1917 6
Deaths: Nurses General 5
Deaths: Nurses: Tfns 5
Imperial War Museum First World War Aerial Photographs Collection 5
Belfast Telegraph Collection 5
Lawrence T E (colonel) Collection 4
Pitman Thomas Tait (major-general) Collection 4
Ministry Of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection 4
Deaths: Other Services- Waacs 3
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 3
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Red Cross (joint War Committee) 1920 3
Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (pid) Second World War Photograph Library: Classifi 3
Deaths: Other Services- Land Army 3
Prytyåš Wåadysåaw Jacek Collection 2
Deaths: Nurses Deaths- Scottish Nursing Services 2
Cooke G H (lieutenant Colonel) 2
American (us) Embassy Second World War Photograph Library: Classified Print Collection 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 July 1918 2
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 August 1918 1
First World War Womens War Work Collection 1
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 1
Ministry Of Information Second World War Official Collection 1
British Aircraft And Early Aircraft In Other Museums And Institutions 1913 - 1918 (gsa 129) 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 June - July 1918 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 3556
National Maritime Museum
Prints & Drawings 367
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 150
Historic Photographic Negatives 19
Oil Paintings 6
Charts & Maps 5
Ship Plans - Merchant Collections 2
Relics 1
Glass 1
Coins & Commemorative Medals 1
Archive 1
Year
All 80621909 53
1910 177
1911 58
1912 170
1913 403
1915 104
1916 2
1917 213
1918 769
1919 418
1920 633
1921 101
1922 927
1923 640
1924 827
1925 668
1926 442
1927 596
1928 525
1929 86
1930 133
1931 109
1933 1
1934 5
1937 2
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).