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All 9511Europeana
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 188
Vänersborgs museum 164
Bohusläns museum 116
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum 39
Sjöhistoriska museet 21
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 19
Miliseum 16
Tekniska museet 15
Rijksmuseum 12
Marinmuseum 9
Riksantikvarieämbetet 8
Flygvapenmuseum 7
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk 5
Postmuseum 5
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet 2
Slovak National Library 2
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 2
Upplandsmuseet 1
Flickr Commons
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons 49
The Library of Congress 25
SMU Libraries Digital Collections 23
State Library of Queensland, Australia 20
Australian War Memorial collection 14
State Library of New South Wales collection 13
National Library of Ireland on The Commons 10
National Library of Australia Commons 7
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 6
The U.S. National Archives 5
MissouriStateArchives 5
National Library NZ on The Commons 5
Cornell University Library 4
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 4
Museum of Photographic Arts Collections 3
Provincial Archives of Alberta 3
State Library and Archives of Florida 3
OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 2
Swedish National Heritage Board 2
National Library of Norway 1
Liberas / Liberaal Archief 1
Deseronto Archives 1
Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University 1
Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
Département des Hauts-de-Seine, musée Albert-Kahn 1159
Imperial War Museums
Bond of Sacrifice portraits 2107
Other 254
Air Ministry First World War Official Aerial Photographs Collection 222
French First World War Official Exchange Collection 109
Money Robert Cotton (major) Collection 79
Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection 68
Womens War Work 60
Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection 32
Lachmann Gustav Collection 24
Slater Percival James (colonel) Collection 13
Pilkington Christopher (sergeant) Collection 12
Corporation Of The City Of London Collection 12
Australian Forces In Gallipoli 1915 - 1916 11
Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection 11
Cooke G H (lieutenant Colonel) 7
Robson Harold Burge (hon) Collection 5
Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection 3
Surgeon Parkes Collection Of Ships Portraits 3
Deaths: Nurses Deaths To 1920 3
First World War Womens War Work Collection 3
Australian First World War Official Exchange Collection 2
German First World War Official Exchange Collection 2
Pitman Thomas Tait (major-general) Collection 2
Broom Albert (mrs) 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 October - November 1917 1
Italian First World War Official Collection 1
Photographs: Memorial For The Fallen 1 July 1918 1
Deaths: Nurses Deaths (nursing Services) 1
The Coronation Of Emperor Charles Of Austria As King Of Hungary In Budapest 1916 & Scenes In Austria 1
The Royal Naval Air Service 1914 - 1918 1
American First World War Official Exchange Collection 1
Lives of the First World War
Life Story (by date of death) 4287
National Maritime Museum
Coins & Commemorative Medals 63
Historic Photographic Negatives 18
Navigational Instruments 17
Prints & Drawings 16
Orders & Medals 13
Ship Plans - Admiralty Collections 12
Firearms 6
Relics 6
Uniforms 4
Ship Models 3
Flags 3
Oil Paintings 2
Ceramics 2
Miscellaneous Antiquities 2
Charts & Maps 1
Astronomical Instruments 1
Antiquities - Ships Equipment 1
Textiles 1
Miniatures 1
Plate 1
Horological Instruments 1
Ordnance 1
Year
All 585561909 313
1910 435
1911 338
1912 1598
1913 2286
1914 1722
1915 1159
1916 1906
1917 2348
1918 2754
1919 3092
1920 4691
1921 4349
1922 5566
1923 2859
1924 4320
1925 2742
1926 4411
1927 3906
1928 1925
1929 2597
1930 2045
1931 1108
1932 21
1933 10
1934 46
1937 8
3815 1
About this site
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
Data sources
Update 16 October 2018
- Addition of nearly 60,000 superb dated autochromes (one of the earliest commercial colour processes) from the Musée Albert Kahn, accessed through the Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines
- Complete refresh of Flickr Commons, Europeana, and National Maritime Museum data
- Added pagination as many dates now have signifcantly more than 100 images!
Current totals by data source
- Europeana - 72434 items
- Archives de la Planéte, Open Data Hautes-de-Seines - 58556 items
- Imperial War Museums - 38229 items
- Lives of the First World War - 33134 items
- National Maritime Museum - 29529 items
- Flickr Commons - 13362 items
- American Air Museum - 5054 items
Current totals by date accuracy
- Precise date - 206835 items
- Accurate to month only - 16699 items
- Accurate to year only - 26764 items
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;
Technology overview
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).
Licence
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).