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).
Three members of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, waiting to free a bogged Leyland truck, Bailleul, France, 1917 / John Joshua
Taken some time in 1917
National Library of Australia Commons
Thursday Island from the wharf, [ca. 1917-1920]
Taken some time in 1917
National Library of Australia Commons
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla, Parti från Gustafsberg."
1 January 1917
Bohusläns museum
Två kvinnor säljer kakor till soldaterna framför en byggnad i Karlberg.
1 January 1917
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Two views showing fitting of draped skirt on dress form. Photo taken for Blackmore, ...
Taken some time in 1917
Cornell University Library
Utklädda ryttare framför åskadare vid en tillställning på Karlberg.
1 January 1917
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
W. Hinchcliffe. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: killed in action in 1917.
Died 1 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Women of the Hooker family enjoying the cool water at the Canungra Weir
Taken some time in 1917
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Young woman and a man in oriental pyjamas in the J.C. Williamson New York production of Canary cottage, 1917
Taken some time in 1917
National Library of Australia Commons
["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
["Il Paradiso," Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188 Hillcrest Avenue, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
["Lake Terrace," John Stoughton Newberry Jr. house, 99 Lake Shore Drive, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Cheers for Heinie Zimmerman, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Clarence "Pants" Rowland, manager, and Beulah, Chicago AL (baseball)] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Gardener watering cold frame plants, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's poem The Glory of the Garden] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Gardeners potting plants in a shed, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's poem The Glory of the Garden] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia NL (baseball)] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Rube Marquard, Brooklyn NL & Rube Marquard Jr. (baseball)] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
[Wellington Stanley Morse house, 450 South San Rafael Avenue, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, California. (LOC)
Taken some time in 1917
The Library of Congress
Francis Obree Gdanitz G/35346, Duke of Cambridge's Own ( Middlesex Regiment)
Died 2 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Horace Garfield Kurrle 765. Unit: 38th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 January 1917 Western Front. Son of Robert Frederick and Catherine Lupton Kurrle. Born at Sunbury, Victoria, Australia.
Died 2 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Gareth Gray 2655, Australian Infantry,
Died 2 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Godfrey Gordon Relf M2/178480, Army Service Corps
Died 2 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Laurence Victor Chamberlain 4246. Unit: 10th and/or 22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 January 1917 Killed in action aged 21 years Western Front
Died 2 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Stephen Pickering 60051, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 2 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Badge: Order of the British Empire, 3rd class (civil). Neck badge. Silver gilt cross patonce enamelled blue grey on reverse. Obverse: In the centre Britannia within a red enamelled band bearing motto "FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE". Reverse: The Royal
1917
National Maritime Museum
Badge: Order of the British Empire, 3rd class (civil). Neck badge. Silver gilt cross patonce the arms enamelled blue grey on reverse. In the centre within a circle enamelled red the motto "FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE" gilt conjoined busts of King Geo
after 1937
National Maritime Museum
Badge: Order of the British Empire, 3rd class (civil). Neck badge. Silver gilt cross patonce with blue grey enamel on reverse only . Obverse: In the centre Britannia within a red enamelled band bearing motto "FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE". Reverse: Th
1917
National Maritime Museum
Badge: Order of the British Empire, 3rd class (civil). Neck badge. Silver gilt cross pattonee with blue grey enamel on reverse only . Suspended from a purple ribbon. Obverse: In the centre Britannia within a red enamelled band bearing motto "FOR GOD
1917
National Maritime Museum
Lieutenant Arthur James. Unit: 7th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 03 January 1917 Western Front.
Died 3 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miniature: Order of the British Empire, 3rd class (military). Miniature of MED1291. Awarded to Capt.C.W.Thomas CBE. RN. Can be found in MED1291.1.
1917
National Maritime Museum
Private Archibald William Goodchild 67053. Unit: 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters). Death: 3 January 1917, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 3 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Archibald William Goodchild 67055, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 3 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Watson 27259, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 3 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Frederick Courtney Selous, D.S.O. , Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Thomas Aloysius Rawcliffe P/1306, Military Foot Police
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Henry Scott Vermont Graham 3115, British West Indies Regiment
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Company Quarter Master Serjeant William Oscroft 24910, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 5 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Henry Brown 6364. Unit: 20th and 9th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 January 1917 Flers Western Front
Died 5 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Archibald John McWha , Royal Flying Corps
Died 5 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sub Lieutenant Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett , 63rd ( Royal Naval ) Division
Died 5 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Beresford 27493, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 6 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Ward Musto 4/6603. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 06 January 1917 Western Front
Died 6 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Grattidge 4427. Unit: 24th Battalion, 6 Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 6 January 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 6 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Henry Jackson 4441, Australian Infantry
Died 6 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Oliphant 40967, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 6 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Lewis Llewellyn Poole 4597/ES, Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Ganges
Died 7 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Andrew Minniece 3870. Unit: 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 January 1917 Western Front
Died 7 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Harry Adams 5972, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died 7 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Ward Musto 6603, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 7 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Edward Charlesworth 7199, Durham Light Infantry
Died 7 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Brigadier General Robert William Henry Dunn , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 8 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Peter Olaf Anderson 1116. Unit: Headquarters Details, 37th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 January 1917 Western Front
Died 8 January 1917
Imperial War Museum