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).
Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... A Lodgement under the Rock on the South-west Side. Hand-coloured.; No.3.
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... South East View of the Diamond Rock, with the Cannon being hauled up from the Centaur by the Cable. Hand-coloured.; No.2.
1 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Engraving taken from Sir Charles Wager's Monument in Westminster Abbey showing a portrait and a battle scene. Technique includes stipple engraving.
2 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Loss of the Lady Hobart Packet. The Falmouth registered Post Office packet ‘Lady Hobart’, commanded by William Dorset Fellowes, was bound for England from Halifax, Nova Scotia, when, on 26th June 1803, she was attacked by a French privatee
26 January 1805
National Maritime Museum
Cleopatra 32 Guns Launched at Bristol, December, 1779. Vignette from the 'Naval Chronicle'.
31 Jan 1805
National Maritime Museum
Action of HMS Arrow and Acheron against the French frigates Hortense and Incorruptible: beginning of the action, 4 February 1805. Oil painting by Francis Sartorius, entitled 'Action of HMS ''Arrow'' and ''Acheron'
1805
National Maritime Museum
HMS Curieux captures the Dame Ernouf, 8 February 1805. 'HMS ''Curieux'' captures the ''Dame Ernouf'', 8 February 1805' by Francis Sartorius. Signed lower right.
1806
National Maritime Museum
The 'Cambrian' of Boston, William Marshall Master, beating off a french cutter privateer on 23 October 1804. Print depicting the brig 'Cambrian' of Boston, William Marshall, Master, beating off a french cutter privateer on 23 October 1
12 February 1805
National Maritime Museum
Kite (1805); Raven (1805); Fly (1805); Fly (1805); Wizard (1805); Sparrow (1805); Challenger (1806); Goshawk (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck with fore & aft platforms for Goshawk (1805) and Challenger
14 February 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir William James Bart Commodore in the Hon East India Compys Service, Chairman of the Court of Directors &c. nat Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire 1721 ob 1783. Print
28 Feb 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Admiralty and Horse Guards, Westminster. Today, the changing of the horse guards is a ceremony that takes place daily at Horse Guards Parade Whitehall. It consists of the 'new' guards replacing the 'old' guards on duty and is a maj
1 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Disabled situation of the Guillaume Tel of 84 Guns... as she appeared at Daylight on the 30th March 1800, after having been Engaged by His Majesty's Ship Penelope... the Stromboli Brig, Lion & Foudroyant coming up, by the two latter of which
1 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
Gedicht op de vijftigste verjaardag van de equipage-meester van 's lands marine, departement Amsterdam, Joachim Pieter Asmus
9 March 1805
Rijksmuseum
A Naval Enquiry with a Naught-ical Explanation (caricature). Mounted in album with PAI3425-PAI3628, PAI3630-PAI3776.; Hand-coloured.
25 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Sailor and the Ghost: A whimsical Ballad... (caricature). Technique includes stipple engraving.; Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.; Page No.389.
25 Mar 1805
National Maritime Museum
Imogen (1805); Orestes (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck of a Brig, being built by Mr Bailey of Ipswich. This has been deduced as being Imogen (1805), a 16-gun Brig, athough it could also relate to Orestes (1805), built by
2 April 1805
National Maritime Museum
Anacreon (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for building the Anacreon (1813), a 16-gun (later 22-gun) Ship Sloop.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-180
28 October 1805
National Maritime Museum
The snow Jenny of London... on a Voyage from Oporto, being attacked on the 29th Novr 1804 by a French Privateer... the Jenny struck the privateer on the Quarter... tore her Main Sail & carried away her boom... thus disabled... Jenny proceeded... lost
11 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital. For Dr Hughson's Description of London. An engraving of Greenwich Hospital, after Robert Schnebbelie, produced for Dr Hughson's 'Description of London'.
18 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital. For Dr Hughson's Description of London. Technique includes engraving. See.....another copy.
This print of the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich was published in Dr Hughson's 'Description of London'.
18 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Jack of Guinea. There was a sizeable African population in Britain in the 18th century. While some were free citizens, many others had arrive in Britain to be the domestic servants of slave-holding plantation owners. This print, and the accompanying poem
20 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
An English sailor at a French Eating House (caricature). Hand-coloured.
30 May 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bart. Engraved by Ridley from a Picture, by J, Northcote, R.A. European Magazine. Print
1 Jun 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Richard Bickerton Bart. K.G. Rear Admiral of the White. Engraved by Ridley from a drawing by T Maynard. From an Original Picture Painted in Malta. Print
1 Jun 1805
National Maritime Museum
The European Factories at Canton in China. This view from the Pearl River shows the Danish, French, Spanish, Swedish, British and Dutch factories. The drawing on which this print was based may have been executed in 1785, when Thomas and William Daniell vi
1 June 1805
National Maritime Museum
H.M. Frigate Cambrian. Hand-coloured.; Vignette.; No 4. Plate 10 in Part I of "Liber Nauticus and instruction in the art of marine drawing" by Dominc Serres RA and John Thomas Serres.
4 Jun 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for 'Cumberland' (1807) and 'Venerable' (1808), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers building at Northfleet by Mr T
12 June 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with modified gun ports, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Cumberland' (1807), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. It is likely that
12 June 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Magnificent' (1806); 'Valiant' (1807); 'Elizabeth' (1807); 'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'M
12 June 1805
National Maritime Museum
View of St John's Harbour, Antigua; the fleet at anchor and the 'Curieux' brig making sail with dispatches for England [12 June 1805]. The last, but seventh in order of events, in series of ten drawings (PAF5871–PAF5874, PAF5876, PAF5
1810
National Maritime Museum
The Signal Defeat of the French Admiral Linois Squadron. By the Honble the East India Company Ships, commanded by Nathl Dance Esqr.... on the 15th Feby 1804. Technique includes etching.; Plate 109.; Text in English below title.
24 Jun 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Way to Stop a Yarmouth Cart! (caricature). Mounted with PAG8552.; Hand-coloured.; No.41.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
John Schank Esqr, RN. European Magazine. Print, from the oil portrait which is now NMM BHC3014.
1 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Lads of the Ocean, Sung with the Greatest Applause by Mr Taylor, of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
22 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Nathaniel Dance. To the Society of East India Commanders This Print is respectfully dedicated by their oblig'd & obedt. servt. Robt Cribb. Print
24 Jul 1805
National Maritime Museum
Jack Junk's Opinion of the French Language (caricature). Mounted with PAG8553.; Hand-coloured.; No.40.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
Aug 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Project' (1806). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan for the 'Project' (1806). The plan also depicts a modified midship section, sheer lines with inboard detail showing the mortar beds, a longitudinal half-breadth, and upper deck
5 August 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Dove' (1805?). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for 'Dove' (1805?), a four gun despatch cutter. There is some confusion as to whether this is the vessel that was the ex-mercantile cutter 'Ariadne' (
7 August 1805
National Maritime Museum
The 'Phoenix' in chase of the 'Didon', 18 August 1805. This was purchased for the Museum from Davis, a London dealer, by Sir James Caird in 1948 with PAH9534. It was then believed to show the frigate 'Amethyst' in chase of th
1808
National Maritime Museum
Sir Thomas Pasley Bart. Engraved by Ridley from an Original Picture by Mather Brown Esqr. European Magazine. Print
1 Sep 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Thomas Pasley Bart. Engraved by Ridley from an Original Picture by Mather Brown Esqr. European Magazine. Print
1 Sep 1805
National Maritime Museum
A little Cabin with 2 hamocks. The Ship's Steward. Hand-coloured.
Two etchings depicting life in the Royal Navy in September 1805, the month before Trafalgar. The ship's steward assisted the purser, and dealt with supplies on board.
7 Sep 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Castle - in Danger, or the Heads of the Nation in a Queer Situation (caricature). Hand-coloured.
9 Sep 1805
National Maritime Museum
Anacreon (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Anacreon (1813), a 16-gun (later 22-gun) Ship Sloop. The vessel was originally started by Thomas Sutton before being d
11 September 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Magnificent' (1806); 'Valiant' (1807); 'Elizabeth' (1807); 'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for building 'Magnificent' (1806), 'Valiant
15 September 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Sailor's Journal. Sung by Mr Incledon at Covent Garden Theatre, &c (caricature). Technique includes engraving.; Plate No.405.; Text in English below image.
28 Sep 1805
National Maritime Museum
'Victory'. A starboard-broadside study of the hull of the 'Victory'. It is so inscribed by the artist, with unexplained figures. The inscription in the bottom right corner '(at Trafalgar – by Pocock)' is much later and
circa 1806 (?)
National Maritime Museum
Iohn Bazely Esqr Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron. Engraved by Ridley from a Miniature by Thos Langdon. Print
1 Oct 1805
National Maritime Museum
Codrington, Sir Edward, Admiral, 1770-1851. Trafalgar memorandum signed by Nelson [Nelson & Bronte], VICTORY off Cadiz, 9 October 1805, to Captain Edward Codrington, ORION.
1805-10-9
National Maritime Museum
Comet (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing for building Comet (1807), an 18-gun Fireship (Sloop), at Bideford by Mr William Taylor. This plan was sent to Mr Taylor, and returned to the Navy Office in October
10 October 1805
National Maritime Museum
Blake (1808); Saint Domingo (1809). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Blake (1809) and Saint Domingo (1808), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. These two ships were a lenghtened version of the Courage
11 October 1805
National Maritime Museum
Last letter from Nelson to his daughter Horatia, 1805. Last letter from Nelson to Horatia.
While at sea, Nelson frequently wrote to both Lady Hamilton and their daughter Horatia, and this letter was written just before the Battle of Trafalgar. It was u
1805-10-19
National Maritime Museum
The Loss of the Romney Man of War. Hand-coloured.; Wood engraving.
19 Oct 1805
National Maritime Museum