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).
Admiral Lord Nelson, Engraved by Turner from a Drawing by R Bowyer, Esqr for Capt Brenton's Naval History. Print
1 Feb 1823
National Maritime Museum
Carronade slide for Quarter Deck and Forecastle on Frigates. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing a plan and elevation at a carronade slide fitted to Frigates and smaller vessels, on the inside and outside principle.
14 February 1823
National Maritime Museum
Interieur van de Nieuwe Lutherse Kerk te Amsterdam, voor de brand van 1822
15 February 1823
Rijksmuseum
To James Weddell, Esqr R.N... the brig Jane and cutter Beaufoy on 20th February 1823, bearing up in 74o 15' (Being the highest Southern Latitude ever reached). Hand-coloured. James Weddell's 1822-24 expedition to Antarctica was to find new seali
Oct 1826
National Maritime Museum
Horatio Viscount Nelson. Painted by S. Dekoster. Engraved by Edward F. Finden London Pubd for the Proprieter March 1823. Print
Mar 1823
National Maritime Museum
The notorious Black Billy 'At Home' to a London Street Party. Coloured etching published by Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row. The scene is at Charing Cross, near the equestrian statue of Charles I. Billy Waters is entertaining the passing crowd
March 1823
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Engraved by Turner, from a Picture by Sir Wm Beechey, R.A. For Captn Brenton's Naval History. Print
1 Apr 1823
National Maritime Museum
Captain Franklin R.N Commander of The Expedition To The Mouth of The Copper-Mine River And shores of The Polar Sea, Engraved by W.T. Fry From an Original Drawing By T. Wageman. Published for the New European Magazine. Print
1 Apr 1823
National Maritime Museum
Study of a pair of dividers. Mounted with PAE6644, PAE6646-PAE6647.
15 Apr 1823
National Maritime Museum
Study of a wheelbarrow, rake and spade. Mounted with PAE6645-PAE6647.
15 Apr 1823
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Collingwood, For Captn Brenton's Naval History. Print
1 May 1823
National Maritime Museum
Symptoms of not having been often to Church (caricature). Hand-coloured.
16 May 1823
National Maritime Museum
Frolic (1820); Goldfinch (1808); Redpole (1808); Hope (1824); Magnet (1823); Procris (1822); Weazle (1822); Hearty (1824); Lapwing (1825); Harpy (1825); Fairy (1826); Espoir (1826); Calypso (1826); Recruit (1829); Rapid (1829); Myrtle (1825); Musquito (18
14 June 1823
National Maritime Museum
'Wight' (circa 1823). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Wight' (circa 1823), a single-masted fifty-one foot victualling hoy.
Signed by William Stone [Mast
4 July 1823
National Maritime Museum
'Wight' (circa 1823). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck ,and hold with fore and aft platforms for 'Wight' (circa 1823), a single-masted fifty-one foot victualling hoy.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Deptford D
4 July 1823
National Maritime Museum
Zephyr (1823), Tyrian (1826). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for Zephyr (1823) and Tyrian (1826), 10 gun Brig/Brig Sloops, completed as Packets. According to the annotations dated 14 July to 29 August 1823, cop
14 July 1823
National Maritime Museum
Ovington near Brighton. A hand coloured aquatint of Ovington taken from Daniell's series of prints titled 'A Voyage Around Great Britain'. A view of Ovington seen from a hill. There is a large, walled country house in the centre surrounde
1 Aug 1823
National Maritime Museum
35 ft Barge. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail, for a 20-oared 35 ft Barge. Sined Edward Churchill [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1815-1830]. Possibly drawn by T
Dated: 1 September 1823
National Maritime Museum
Portsmouth Dockyard with Blockhouse Fort in the foreground, 1823. No. 50 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper right 'Portsmouth Sepr – 18th - 1823.'
On the left is part of the Blockhouse Fort on the Gosport side of the entran
18 September 1823
National Maritime Museum
The 'Arab' East Indiaman on shore on the Arrow Bank, Hasler Barracks, Portsmouth, 1823. No. 57 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right corner 'The Arab East Indiaman/on shore on the Arrow bank/ Hasler Barracks, Ports
11 October 1823
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir James Saumarez, Bt. B.C.B. Vice Admiral of Great Britain From an original Picture by Carbonier in the possession of Captain Brenton, Engraved by C. Turner for Capt Brenton's Naval History. Print. The artist is likely to be Casimir Carbonn
1 Nov 1823
National Maritime Museum
40 ft Barge for His Majesty. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail, for a 40 ft 6-oared 40 ft Barge for the use of His Majesty [King George IV].
Dated: 7 November 1823
National Maritime Museum
Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855). Technique includes etching.; Mounted with PAD3546.
24 Nov 1823
National Maritime Museum
His Majesty's Discovery Ships Fury and Hecla. Hand coloured lithograph depicting the Fury and Hecla, which took part in 1824 and 1825 in Parry's attempt to discover a N/W passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Inscribed: "His Majesty
Dec 1823
National Maritime Museum
Message of President James Monroe at the commencement of the first session of the 18th Congress (The Monroe Doctrine), 12/02/1823
Taken 2 Dec 1823
The U.S. National Archives
Head and Bow of an unnamed First Rate. Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the front view of the bows, a starboard bow and head profile, and half-breadth plan of the bow for an unnamed First Rate, illustrating the position of the gun ports.
Signed by Thomas Rob
3 December 1823
National Maritime Museum
Tweed (1823), Success (1825), Rainbow (1823), Crocodile (1825), Nimrod (1828)} Atholl Class + Volage (1825), Tyne (1826), Imogene (1831), Conway (1832), Alarm (cancelled 1832). Scales, various. 1:8 + 1:24. Plan showing the method of fitting an iron tiller
17 December 1823
National Maritime Museum
'Elizabeth' (1832). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile for 'Elizabeth' (1832), a 114ft three-masted ship-rigged merchant ship. Mould Loft Number 79.
1832
National Maritime Museum
'Royal George' (1827); 'Neptune' (1832); 'Royal William' (1833); 'Saint George' (1840); 'Trafalgar' (1841). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for the 'Saint George' (184
August 1820
National Maritime Museum
'Trusty' (1834). 1:48. A ship plan showing the inboard profile for 'Trusty' (1834), a 111ft three-masted ship-rigged merchant ship. Mould Loft Number 82.
Reverse: An incomplete sheer lines for an unknown merchant ship.
circa 1834
National Maritime Museum
. A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A fiddle-pattern silver table fork belonging to Lieutenant John Irving (HMS 'Terror'). It was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said tha
1824
National Maritime Museum
. Magnetic dial for latitude 51° North, set in a round, turned ivory case with a screw-fit lid. The dial is printed on painted and varnished compass card (red around the edge, the remainder yellow), on the underside of which is a bar magnet, set on a
1824
National Maritime Museum
. The Cosmosphere consists of a printed terrestrial globe, set inside a revolving glass celestial globe. It was invented by Dr William Muller, a major of the Royal Hanoverian Engineers from Woolwich, and made by the Cary brothers. In a pamphlet of 1829 ca
1824
National Maritime Museum
. Upper Bowl-Brass with black centre. Graduated in Roman and Arabic numerals I-XII and 1-12 around edges. Altitude sighter which swivels at centre of bowl. Thumb screw rack and pinion adjustment for altitude, arc is graduated 0-45 twice. Small vernier on
1824
National Maritime Museum
A goblet with water. Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated.
1824
National Maritime Museum
Chart of a part of the north eastern coast of America and its adjacent islands shewing the track and discoveries of his Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla in search of a north west passage under command of Capt. W.E. Parry in the years 1821, 1822, 1823 a
1824
National Maritime Museum
Chart of part of the NE Coast of Australia by Phillip P. King Commander RN 1819 20-21 Sheet 2. Additions and corrections by Lieut. Roe RN to 1829 and by Captain Blackwood 1845.. Scale: circa 1:700,000. Claremont Isles to Palm Isles. Linen backed chart. Su
1845; 1824
National Maritime Museum
Chart of part of the NE Coast of Australia by Phillip P. King Commander RN 1819, 20, 21 Sheet 3...Additions by Lieut Roe RN 1829 and by Captain F.P. Blackwood RN 1844.. Scale: circa 1:700,000. Torres Strait Claremont Is. Linen backed. Manuscript annotatio
1844; 1824
National Maritime Museum
Circular box made from several ships. Circular box. The lid is inlaid with two concentric brass rings surrounding a small circular plaque with an engraved crest of an arm brandishing a scimitar, the motto: 'Pro Patria' and the letter 'B
1824
National Maritime Museum
Commemorative medal depicting Nicholas Louis de la Caille (1714-62). Commemorative medal depicting Nicholas Louis de la Caille (1714-1762). Obverse: Bust of the astronomer (right). Legend: 'N. LUDOVICUS LACAILLE.' Reverse: inscription, 'NA
1824
National Maritime Museum
Hindostan (1841). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Hindostan (1841), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, to be built at Plymouth Dockyard from the lines of Repulse with increased dimensions. The plan
July 1824
National Maritime Museum
Indus (1839). Scale: 1:48. An handdrawn copy of a plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Indus (1839), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as ordered to be built. This plan seems to include the alterations shown on pla
24 February 1824
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating Greek Independence and naval help from England. Medal commemorating Greek Independence and naval help from England. Obverse: Head of King George IV, hair tied with a ribbon (left). Legend: The King's title in Greek. Reverse: The
1824
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Obverse: Neptune standing in a sea-car drawn by two horses, his trident in his right hand, pointing towards the town and harbour in the distance (right
1824
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Obverse: Neptune standing in a sea-car drawn by two horses, his trident in his right hand, pointing towards the town and harbour in the distance (right
1824
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Medal commemorating the Charter of Devonport, 1824. Obverse: Neptune standing in a sea-car drawn by two horses, his trident in his right hand, pointing towards the town and harbour in the distance (right
1824
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the opening of the North Sea Canal, 1824. Medal commemorating the opening of the North Sea Canal, 1824. Obverse: Head of King William I (left). Legend: 'WILHELMVS . I . BELGII . REX . LVXEMB . MAGN . DVX .' Reverse: Amsterdam
1824
National Maritime Museum
Norfolk Association for Saving Lives from Shipwreck. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria as a girl wearing a band in her hair (L) Legend: "VICTORIA" (L) "REGINA" (R). Reverse: Inscription within an oak wreath tied with ribbon. Legend: &quo
1840
National Maritime Museum
Planisphere. French cardboard planisphere, printed on card. A pierced card moves over a celestial map and this, in turn rotates on a third card marked with an hour scale and bound with red paper. On the reverse are printed instructions for its use.
1824
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, Royal Astronomical Society. Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, awarded to Sir Harold Spencer Jones in 1943. Obverse: Head of Isaac Newton (L). Legend: " ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INST: MDCCCXX Nudem Pellente Mathesi". Inscripti
1824
National Maritime Museum
Royal Astronomical Society Gold medal. Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, awarded to George Biddell Airy in 1833. Obverse: Head of Newton (L). Legend: 'ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INST: MDCCCXX.', ' NUBEM PELLENTE MATHESI'. Inscript
1824
National Maritime Museum
Royal Charlotte [Queen Charlotte]. Figurehead of the Royal yacht 'Royal Charlotte', 1824. This superb late-Georgian example retrospectively represents the young Queen Charlotte (1744-1818, wife of George III) at just over half length, crowned, w
1824
National Maritime Museum
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Gold Medal for Gallantry 1824-1857. Obverse: Head of George IV (L). Legend outer: 'ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK'. Legend inner: 'GEORGE THE FOURTH PATRON 1824
1831
National Maritime Museum