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).
Private William Carter 1691/325311. Unit: "A" Company, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Death: 14 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 14 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Oswald Carr Fiennes Elliott , Gordon Highlanders
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Vincent Brotherton , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Robert Harold Alderson 15781, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Captain Roland Ivor Gough , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed.
Taken 15 Oct 1916
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Killed in action at Gueudecourt Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916, missing, Gueudecourt, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepv
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal William E R Braddock 4744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Ertrag der Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Wien
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Lilienfeld
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Lieutenant Hubert Edmund Backhouse , Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major Edmund Rochfort Street DSO. Unit: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Edmund Rochfort Street, D.S.O. , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alan Gascoigne 20717, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Thomas Hogan 1660. Unit: 55th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Charles Nicholls 10967, Essex Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George H Thompson 30067, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Christopher St George 5599, South African Infantry Battalion
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Booth Lister S/23831. Unit: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1916 Wounded and Missing Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Laurence Millais Kinsley. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 15 October 1916 wounded and missing at Guendecourt, Western Front. Son of Albert and Eliza Kinsley, of 46, Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal James Reid 15992. Unit: 17th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 16 October 1916 Western Front
Died 16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
E K Parker, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Died of illness contracted on duty 16 October 1916.
Died 16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Gwyn James 8079, South African Infantry
Died 16 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Brydon Cameron 40362. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 16 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles M Kelly. Unit: Royal Flying Corps. Death: 16 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas Gibbs Gordon Sturrock. Unit: 17th Battalion, Royal Scots, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 16 October 1916 Died of wounds received in action Western Front
Died 16 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Elizabeth Kelly Parker , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Imperial M
Died 16 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Oliver John Sykes. Unit: 23rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Charles F Bell 527, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Arthur James Thornley ES 3623, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Thomas Elmer 30309, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Philip Challinor Ellis. Unit: Highland Light Infantry, attached to No. 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Observer). Death: 17 October 1916.
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank Pinion GS/1353, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick J Moss 6440, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Lawrence Hunter 8446, Norfolk Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Ralph Parrack 5698. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Patrick Mountain 1967, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Alfred Ensor 533169, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Killick G/15455, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant C K Roberts. Unit: 11th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 October 1916 posted missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Airlie Holden. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, attached to the "C" Company, 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Kelyth Pierce Lloyd Williams , Welsh Regiment
Died 17 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman Joseph John James Wilson J9905, H.M.S. "Excellent"
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Augustus O'Brien , Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Horace Charles Gracey. Unit: 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 18 October 1916, Thiepval, Somme, Western Front.
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Clyde Beech. Unit: Scottish Horse, attached to the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 18 October 1916, missing, Les Boeufs, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Eadie. Unit: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 18 October 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Herbert Henry Strange 18463. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 18 October 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Daily Sketch. A framed front page of the Daily Sketch with article on William Walker. The page also contains three images of William Walker; one pictured with his family, another blowing on a bugle and thethird proceeding to accpet his award whilst being
18 October 1916
National Maritime Museum
Gunner John William Francis Hunt 117, Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Ralph Bolton 1806, Australian Infantry, A.I.F
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant Edward Mears 50657, Royal Defence Corps
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Andrew Montgomery Rees. Unit: 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 18 October 1916 Guendecourt Western Front
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lt Verran was reported missing, aged 21, on 18 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Harry Woodhead MID. Unit: Commanding Officer A Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry. Death: 18 October 1916 Missing in Action in an attack at Butte de Warlencourt Western Front
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Botfield 12772, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur William Merrill 80380, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles J A Taitte 1530, British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry T Farr 8871, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Arthur Cable 18217, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Stephen Stewart 6400, British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Christopher Gilbert Durant , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 18 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Errol Russell Garnett. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 18 October 1916, Guendecourt, Western Front.
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Graham Brymner Thomas Jardine. Unit: 13th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, attached to 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 18 October 1916 missing Le Sars-Baupaume Western Front.
Died 18 October 1916
Imperial War Museum