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 Joseph Marshall 10861, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 16 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Darcy Thompson 4843, Coldstream Guards
Died 16 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William McGowan 7230, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 16 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Beddome Read. Unit: 1st Battalion. Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry). Death: 16 September 1914 By shrapnel at Battle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 16 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Hugh Mockler-Ferryman , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 16 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Paul Chancourt Girardot. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 16 September 1914, Soupir-sur-Aisne, Western Front.
Died 16 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Kerr Ames , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 16 September 1914
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Serjeant Shoemaker Walter Broad 5641, Coldstream Guards
Died 16 September 1914
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Captain Charles Edward Wilson , The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 17 September 1914
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Captain Charles Edward Wilson. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 17 September 1914 at The Battle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Ardkeen Savage , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain John Ardkeen Savage. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 17 September 1914 Died at Battle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Burton Parker , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Robert Burton Parker. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 17 September 1914 Western Front
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Rupert Bowlby. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 17 September 1914 Chivres Hill Western Front
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Dawson Warren , Royal West Surrey Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Dawson Warren. Unit: Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 17 September 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles George Gould 7169, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Michael Sullivan 7225, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant Cosmo George Gordon , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant Cosmo George Gordon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 17 September 1914, Western Front.
Died 17 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Sydney Paulson , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Paul Chancourt Girardot , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 17 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Martin Raymond Carr , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Martin Raymond Carr. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 18 September 1914 Killed in action at the Ainse Western Front
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert James McCloughin , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William Thomas Clifford 7975, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Drummer Cecil Burnett Edwards 9428, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 18 September 1914
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Group of women behind the counter at the fete, Brisbane, 1915
Taken 18 Sep 1914
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Lance Corporal George Henry Goldsmith 9668, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Archibald Courtenay Hayes Foster , King's African Rifles
Died 18 September 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dalton , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 18 September 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dalton MID. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 18 September 1914 Western Front
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Odber Augustus Knapton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 18 September 1914 at Battle of Aisne, Western Front. Son of Capt. A. L. K. Knapton (R. N.), of Rope Hill, Lymington, Hants.
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Oliver Dunham Melville Garsia , Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Stuart Kirby Jones , Army Veterinary Corps
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Stuart Kirby Jones. Unit: Army Veterinary Corps, attached to 25th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 September 1914 Died of wounds Western Front.
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Stuart Kirby Jones. Unit: Army Veterinary Corps, attached to 25th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 September 1914.
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Louis Marius Celest Bruckert. Unit: 5th Company, 43rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Corps, 1st Division, French Army. Death: 18 September 1914 Berry-au-Bac Western Front
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander William Kyle 10046, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Clarke 1029, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 September 1914
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Private Frederick Nicholls 8718, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private Frederick Rogers 8463, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private George Henry Meredith 8558, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private George Henry Thomas Mills 8788, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private John Alick Rhodes 9371, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private Richard Abrahams 7201, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private Walter William Scott 9390, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private William Arthur Price 7924, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Private William Henry Thomas 8037, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant Charles Edward Crane , Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Edward Crane. Unit: 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Death: 18 September 1914 Died of wounds at the Battle of the Ainse Western Front
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Frederick Fleming Smythe , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 18 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Fredrick Fleming Smythe. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 18 September 1914 Killed in action at Battle of the Aisne. Western Front
Died 18 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Grattan Elliot , Devonshire Regiment
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Rosslyn Curzon Evelegh , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Rosslyn Curzon Evelegh. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Lihgt Infantry. Death: 19 September 1914 Aisne Western Front.
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Alan Fuller-Maitland , Coldstream Guards
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Gunner John Wilson 44976, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Archibald Courtenay Hayes Foster. Unit: Hampshire Regiment, attached to the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles. Death: 19 September 1914, Campi Ya Marabu, East Africa.
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Claude Henry. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 19 September 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Herbert James Gilmour. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 19 September 1914, Vailly, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Herbert James Graham Gilmour , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Hubert William Brown , Royal Irish Regiment attached to Nigeria Regiment - West African Frontier Force
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Hubert William Brown. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, attached to Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Death: 19 September 1914 West Africa
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Charles Rodney Spedding DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 19 September 1914 Reported missing in September 1914 presumed dead, and confirmed dead via grant of probate in Dublin Probate Court end of 1915. CWGC confirms death as West
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Arthur Tombs 7964, South Wales Borderers
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John Henry Williams 7861, South Wales Borderers
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Aubrey Hampden Barrington-Kennett. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 19 September 1914 Died of wounds following the Battle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant David Stephenson Wallace , South Lancashire Regiment
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ernest Guthrie Watson , Officer Training Corps attached South Lancashire Regiment
Died 19 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ernest Guthrie Watson. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to D Company, 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 19 September 1914 Killed in Action at the Battle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 19 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Beauchamp Henry Selby , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 20 September 1914
Lives of the First World War