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).
Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax, 02/12/1803 (page 2 of 5)
Taken 12 Feb 1803
The U.S. National Archives
Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax, 02/12/1803 (page 3 of 5)
Taken 12 Feb 1803
The U.S. National Archives
Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax, 02/12/1803 (page 4 of 5)
Taken 12 Feb 1803
The U.S. National Archives
Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax, 02/12/1803 (page 5 of 5)
Taken 12 Feb 1803
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the success of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, 02/19/1806 (page 1 of 4)
Taken 19 Feb 1806
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the success of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, 02/19/1806 (page 2 of 4)
Taken 19 Feb 1806
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the success of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, 02/19/1806 (page 3 of 4)
Taken 19 Feb 1806
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Thomas Jefferson making several nominations, 02/28/1806
Taken 28 Feb 1806
The U.S. National Archives
Senate joint resolution declaring admission of Missouri into the Union, 02/26/1821 (page 2 of 2)
Taken 26 Feb 1821
The U.S. National Archives
Congressman Davy Crockett's Resolution to Abolish the Military Academy at West Point, 02/25/1830 (page 1 of 2)
Taken 25 Feb 1830
The U.S. National Archives
Congressman Davy Crockett's Resolution to Abolish the Military Academy at West Point, 02/25/1830 (page 2 of 2)
Taken 25 Feb 1830
The U.S. National Archives
Letter from John Marshall to Henry Clay and Philemon Thomas (page 1 of 2)
Taken some time in Feb 1832
The U.S. National Archives
Letter from John Marshall to Henry Clay and Philemon Thomas (page 2 of 2)
Taken some time in Feb 1832
The U.S. National Archives
Credential of Senator Sam Houston of Texas, 32d Congress, 02/10/1853
Taken 10 Feb 1853
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Franklin Pierce nominating Major General Winfield Scot to be brevet Lieutenant General in the Army of the United States for eminent services in the late war with Mexico, 02/28/185
Taken 28 Feb 1855
The U.S. National Archives
Mouth of the Tchernaya River, at the bottom of Inkermann Bay, end of Sebastopol Harbour.
Taken 4 Feb 1856
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Quarantine Cemetery and Church, with French Battery No. 50.
Taken 27 Feb 1856
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Inspector John C. Marsh to New Orleans Collector F. H. Hatch, 02/1861
Taken some time in Feb 1861
The U.S. National Archives
Letter from Inspector J.O. McLean to New Orleans Collector F. H. Hatch, 02/1861
Taken some time in Feb 1861
The U.S. National Archives
Embarkation of Ninth Corps at Acquia Creek Landing, February, 1863
Taken some time in Feb 1863
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Memorial of the American Philosophical Society in favor of an exploration of the Alaskan coast, 02/26/1868
Taken 26 Feb 1868
The U.S. National Archives
Petition from citizens of Chicago, 02/17/1872 (page 1 of 5)
Taken 17 Feb 1872
The U.S. National Archives
Petition from citizens of Chicago, 02/17/1872 (page 3 of 5)
Taken 17 Feb 1872
The U.S. National Archives
Petition from citizens of Chicago, 02/17/1872 (page 4 of 5)
Taken 17 Feb 1872
The U.S. National Archives
Petition from citizens of Chicago, 02/17/1872 (page 5 of 5)
Taken 17 Feb 1872
The U.S. National Archives
Plan - Goulburn Street Public School for the Board of Education; Drawing No - 3 Elevations - Colour; Contract Code 246; Card No.399
Taken 16 Feb 1885
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Botanic Gardens and Alice Street inundated in the Brisbane floods in February 1893
Taken some time in Feb 1893
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Sailing ship Examiner in the Port Chalmers graving dock, February 1893
Taken some time in Feb 1893
National Library NZ on The Commons
Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen og Sigurd Scott Hansen spiller brettspill ("halma") om bord i Fram, 1895
Taken 13 Feb 1895
National Library of Norway
Henrik Greve Blessing, Sigurd Scott Hansen og Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup spiller kort i salongen om bord i "Fram", 1895
Taken 15 Feb 1895
National Library of Norway
Victoria Bridge during the aftermath of the Brisbane floods, February 1896
Taken some time in Feb 1896
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Victoria Bridge over the Brisbane River during the floods, February 1896
Taken some time in Feb 1896
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Owen Williams in the railway office, Hillside, Dunedin, 2 February 1897
Taken 2 Feb 1897
National Library NZ on The Commons
Mark Foy's yacht FLYING FISH on Sydney Harbour
Taken 6 Feb 1897
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
GULF OF MARTABAN departing Cowper Street wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay
Taken 17 Feb 1897
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Mark Foy's FLYING FISH on Sydney Harbour
Taken 12 Feb 1898
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Telegram, in code, from Theodore Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey, 02/26/1898 - 02/26/1898
Taken 26 Feb 1898
The U.S. National Archives
Three African American boys in Apalachicola
Taken some time in Feb 1899
State Library and Archives of Florida
Frozen fountain in capitol grounds: Tallahassee, Florida
Taken 13 Feb 1899
State Library and Archives of Florida
First passenger train of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad en route to the summit, Alaska
Taken 20 Feb 1899
UW Digital Collections
Elevator at mine, Round Hill, Southland, February 1900
Taken some time in Feb 1900
National Library NZ on The Commons
Sluicing for gold at Round Hill, Southland, February 1900
Taken some time in Feb 1900
National Library NZ on The Commons
Petition from the citizens of New Jersey praying for Congress to make the act of lynching a crime against the United States, 02/21/1900
Taken 21 Feb 1900
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President William McKinley nominating Nelson A. Miles to be Lieutenant General of the United States Army, 02/07/1901 (page 2 of 2)
Taken 7 Feb 1901
The U.S. National Archives
Akseli Gallen-Kallela with Juho Rissanen and Väinö Mäkinen, possibly in Berlin, 1908.
Taken some time in Feb 1902
The Gallen-Kallela Museum
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
Saranac this week has a carnival of winter sports and winter fun amid Adirondack scenery (LOC)
Taken 1 Feb 1903
The Library of Congress
Susannah Adamson, arrested for stealing a man's purse
Taken 15 Feb 1904
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Joseph Tombling, arrested for obtaining money by false pretences
Taken 4 Feb 1905
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
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
Miss Kemp wearing a lace top and long pants tucked into knee-high boots
Taken 3 Feb 1906
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Germany's emperor celebrates next week the twenty-fifth anniversary of his wedding (LOC)
Taken 18 Feb 1906
The Library of Congress
Amusing themselves while waiting for morning papers. New York, February 1908
Taken some time in Feb 1908
The U.S. National Archives
Getting working papers. New York, February 1908
Taken some time in Feb 1908
The U.S. National Archives
THODE FAGELUND aground near Cronulla Beach, February 1908
Taken some time in Feb 1908
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Richard Frederick Poynting, joiner, arrested for stealing fishing tackle
Taken 12 Feb 1908
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Matthew Walls, arrested for stealing money from children
Taken 24 Feb 1908
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo P. Grays, Bastable Cafe. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until midnight. Photo taken at 11:30 P.M., February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Boys going to work in the American Locomotive Works. Schenectady, N.Y., February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Group on Court St. selling around the Shea Theatre, 8 P.M. Boy in center, Vito Bucheto, 10 years old. Behind him to left, Tony Gregoria, 12 years old. Buffalo, N.Y, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
In a saloon doorway at 8:30 P.M. Left to right, George Cappello, 12 years old. Frank Laporter, 13 years old. Utica, N.Y., February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Line of children found in a penny arcade at 1:30 P.M. As many of the schools in Schenectady run on half-time they are not necessarily truants, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Newsie selling in a saloon in Washington Street at 10 pm. Tony Tomasula, 9 years old, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Newsies in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main St. waiting for evening papers, 4 P.M. Conditions here vile. Rochester, N.Y, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Picking off sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked over coffee sells at about 12 cents a pound, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Wanamaker's 8:30 A.M. New York City, February 1910
Taken some time in Feb 1910
The U.S. National Archives