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).
[Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Camii, Aksaray, Constantinople, Turkey] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Ridderzaal (the Knights' Hall), Hague, Holland] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Riva Schiavoni, seen from S. Zaccane, Venice, Italy] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Sackville Street and O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Shelbourne Hotel Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[St. Stephen's Green Park, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[The beach and Kursaal, (i.e., Cursaal), Blankenberghe, Belgium] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[The Bridges of the Meuse, with Royal Bridge, Rotterdam, Holland] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[The Doges' Palace and the Columns of St. Mark's, Venice, Italy] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[The embankment and entrance to the Kursaal, (i.e., Cursaal), Ostend, Belgium] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[The Grand Canal, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[View of Hitterdals Lake, Notodden, Telemarken (i.e, Telemark), Norway] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Waterloo, the wells of Hougoumont, Brussels, Belgium] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1890
The Library of Congress
[Bookplate of Fred E. Woodward, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1898
The Library of Congress
The Start, Columbia leading, Oct. 4, 1901 [with Shamrock II at left] (LOC)
Taken some time in 1901
The Library of Congress
Emperor William's big war yacht, which is coming here for the launching of his new pleasure boat (LOC)
Taken 19 Jan 1902
The Library of Congress
Types of the three navies that might clash if Russia should gobble too much of China (LOC)
Taken 16 Feb 1902
The Library of Congress
Pope Leo XIII will celebrate to-morrow several anniversaries in his remarkable career (LOC)
Taken 2 Mar 1902
The Library of Congress
Gems from the Garland Collection of Oriental porcelains saved for New-York by J. P. Morgan (LOC)
Taken 16 Mar 1902
The Library of Congress
Thousand of American boys may in future look forward to a free college course at historic Oxford (LOC)
Taken 20 Apr 1902
The Library of Congress
The good influences of Arbor Day observance upon young and old become year by year more apparent (LOC)
Taken 27 Apr 1902
The Library of Congress
The Moros of the Jolo Islands, in spite of present appearances, are likely to remain peaceful (LOC)
Taken 4 May 1902
The Library of Congress
T. Estrada Palma will this week be installed first president of the Free Republic of Cuba (LOC)
Taken 18 May 1902
The Library of Congress
The new head of the Mackay family, Clarence H., combines good business with a love for horses (LOC)
Taken 27 Jul 1902
The Library of Congress
Some of the finest of Long Branch "Clubs," where gambling was suppressed the other day (LOC)
Taken 3 Aug 1902
The Library of Congress
Picturesque Au Sable Chasm, near Lake Champlain, is about to be surveyed for a State Park (LOC)
Taken 10 Aug 1902
The Library of Congress
Alterations at the White House, inside and out, will not be completed for another month at least (LOC)
Taken 5 Oct 1902
The Library of Congress
Some evidences of the active building era through which Yale University is now passing (LOC)
Taken 2 Nov 1902
The Library of Congress
Brokers hope to have their housewarming of the new Stock Exchange on the first day of the new year (LOC)
Taken 30 Nov 1902
The Library of Congress
Reliance and Shamrock III before the start, Aug. 25, 1903 (LOC)
Taken some time in 1903
The Library of Congress
Historic foot guards will play a prominent part in Governor Chamberlain's inauguration (LOC)
Taken 4 Jan 1903
The Library of Congress
Saranac this week has a carnival of winter sports and winter fun amid Adirondack scenery (LOC)
Taken 1 Feb 1903
The Library of Congress
The typhoid germ hunters are after the men who cut ice from polluted waters to sell in New-York (LOC)
Taken 8 Mar 1903
The Library of Congress
Washington's foreign embassies will soon be transferred to seashore and mountainside (LOC)
Taken 28 Jun 1903
The Library of Congress
While New York swelters, mountain climbers of the west revel in the eternal snows (LOC)
Taken 19 Jul 1903
The Library of Congress
New-York has a picturesque Venice all her own and within the city limits, at Jamaica Bay (LOC)
Taken 2 Aug 1903
The Library of Congress
Central Park's lakes are being cleaned and deepened - the process an interesting one (LOC)
Taken 30 Aug 1903
The Library of Congress
Habits of the Syrians, one of whom tried to assassinate an American Vice-Council the other day (LOC)
Taken 6 Sep 1903
The Library of Congress
Scenes in C.C. Worthington's Park, whence 2,000 deer are to be turned loose on the countryside (LOC)
Taken 13 Sep 1903
The Library of Congress
An old Roman garden transferred to Philadelphia, despite many difficulties, by J. H. A. Klauder (LOC)
Taken 4 Oct 1903
The Library of Congress
Scenes in that district of Alaska Canada's claim to which has just been disallowed (LOC)
Taken 25 Oct 1903
The Library of Congress
Five illustrations of the familiar newspaper phrase, "Help Wanted" (LOC)
Taken 1 Nov 1903
The Library of Congress
Preparations for Thanksgiving dinner are this week occupying many minds (LOC)
Taken 22 Nov 1903
The Library of Congress
Scenes along the mule trail to Bogota, the capital city of Colombia (LOC)
Taken 13 Dec 1903
The Library of Congress
Christmas tide is come again and Santa Claus holds the centre of the stage (LOC)
Taken 20 Dec 1903
The Library of Congress
Photograph of the real Mayor of New-York for the next two years (LOC)
Taken 27 Dec 1903
The Library of Congress
A glimpse of New-York's great canyon, called Nassau-St., which it is proposed to "arcade" (LOC)
Taken 24 Jan 1904
The Library of Congress
Scenes at the Kingston (N.Y.) Street Fair and Carnival last week (LOC)
Taken 8 May 1904
The Library of Congress
Scenes in the zone of Panama soil just acquired by the United States, where digging for the great canal will soon begin (LOC)
Taken 15 May 1904
The Library of Congress
Far from the heated city thousands now revel in nature's simple joys (LOC)
Taken 10 Jul 1904
The Library of Congress
The Halloween Party. Bobbing for apples-"Can't I get in the game?" (LOC)
Taken 30 Oct 1904
The Library of Congress
Scenes from last week's winter carnival at Saranac Lake, N.Y. (LOC)
Taken 5 Feb 1905
The Library of Congress
The fate of Russian convicts on Saghalien Island seems unnecessarily severe (LOC)
Taken 19 Feb 1905
The Library of Congress
Palm Sunday and Holy Week now command attention of the devout in many lands (LOC)
Taken 16 Apr 1905
The Library of Congress
Yachts entered for the ocean race for a cup presented by the Kaiser (LOC)
Taken 14 May 1905
The Library of Congress
Missouri State University leads in students who work their own way through college (LOC)
Taken 21 May 1905
The Library of Congress
Scenes from the life of John Paul Jones, whose funeral begins this week (LOC)
Taken 2 Jul 1905
The Library of Congress
Peace plenipotentiaries and Portsmouth, N.H., where they are soon to meet (LOC)
Taken 23 Jul 1905
The Library of Congress