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).
Nid Elvin (captured 1807) [alternative spelling: Nid Elven]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with platforms for Nid Elvin (captured 1807), a captured Danish Brig, as fitted as an 18-gun Brig Sloop. She arrived at Woolwich Dockyard on 24 October
Circa July 1808
National Maritime Museum
Nid Elvin (captured 1807) [alternative spelling: Nid Elven]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nid Elvin (captured 1807), a Danish Brig, as fitted as an 18-gun Brig Sloop. She arrived at Woolwich Dockyard on 24 October 1807 and fitted there u
Circa July 1808
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, For The Broad Sword, 1808. An engraved plate. Obverse: Incription incuse: "Medal for the Broad Sword, won by Capt. Watts, R. Navy, 8th Decr, 1808". Reverse: Plain with hallmark. Fitted with a ring and purple ribbon.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, Loyal Liverpool Independant Sea Fencibles. Obverse: Within a raised border, Mercury (1/2L) strides over the waves. Reverse: Engraved inscription "THE REWARD OF MERIT FOR SKILL WITH FIRELOCK 1808". Legend: "LOYAL LIVERPOOL INDT
1808
National Maritime Museum
Queen Charlotte (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship section illustrating the chocks, iron knees and fastening for attaching the deck beams to the sides on Queen Charlotte (1810), a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Deptford Dockyard
July 1808
National Maritime Museum
Racoon (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing, and longitudinal half-breadth for building the Racoon (1808), an 18-gun (later 20-gun) Sixth Rate Sloop. The ship was to be built at Yarmouth by John Preston.
Sig
29 November 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sailors arrival on shore from a cruise (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the outboard expansion and the inboard expansion for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate.
Signed by John Ancell [Assistant to the Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1801-1814].
24 March 1808
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1785). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the external planking profile, starboard external planking profile and stern board expansion plan for the Squirrel (1785), a 24-gun, Sixth Rate building ship at Liverpool by Mr John Barton, was taken off prior to
24th March 1811
National Maritime Museum
St.Helen's Road Spithead Portsmouth and Langstone harbours. Surveyed in 1783 by Lieut. Murdoch Mackenzie Junr.. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Linen backed. Scale: [ca.1:25 000]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Variation shown. Soundings and seabed cont
1808
National Maritime Museum
Ten cash piece. Ten cash piece. Obverse: Arms of the East India Company. Legend: 'EAST INDIA COMPANY'. Exergue: '1808'. Reverse: Inscription in Persian script. Exergue: 'X CASH'.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Ten cash piece. Ten cash piece. Obverse: Arms of the East India Company. Legend: 'EAST INDIA COMPANY'. Exergue: '1808'. Reverse: Inscription in Persian script. Exergue: 'X CASH'.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Ten cash piece. Ten cash piece. Obverse: Arms of the East India Company. Legend: 'EAST INDIA COMPANY'. Exergue: '1808'. Reverse: Inscription in Persian script. Exergue: 'X Cash'.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Celestial pocket globe - case for the terrestrial pocket globe. Spherical case consists of two hinged hemispheres with two hook and eye clasps. It is lined with gores depicting the celestial sphere. Stars are repres
1808
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Geographical details on the terrestrial sphere show Tasmania labelled 'Diemans Land' and drawn as an island. In North America there is a label 'Sea 1772'.
1808
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Terrestrial pocket globe. Tasmania is labelled 'Diemans Land', and drawn as an island. In North America, there is a label 'Sea 1772'. A total of five oceans are named.
1808
National Maritime Museum
The Death of Lord Nelson in the Cockpit of the Ship 'Victory'. The scene in the cockpit of 'Victory', 100 guns, during the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. The narrative combines the portraiture of the principal figures with an en
1808
National Maritime Museum
Transit (1809). Scale: 1:48 and 1:24. A copy of a plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and later alterations, sheer lines with inboard detail and some framing detail, a section through a gun port, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Tran
Circa April-May 1808
National Maritime Museum
Transit (1809). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer line with undated pencil alterations and inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Transit (1809), an 11-gun four-masted Advice Boat, as designed by Captain Ri
Circa March-early April 1808
National Maritime Museum
View of St Aubin, Jersey, 1808. No. 9 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
Schetky’s view is from the east above the bay and shows in the centre St.Aubin’s Fort, and to the right the harbour and village of St Aubin. This belongs to a group of drawings (
1808
National Maritime Museum
View of St. Aubin - Jersey, 1808. No. 14 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
This belongs to a group of drawings (along with PAH3780, PAH3784, and PAH3789) made by Schetky at St Aubin, Jersey, in 1808. PAH3789 is a continuation of this drawing to the left.
It is
1808
National Maritime Museum
View of St. Aubins Fort Jersey showing Fort Elizabeth, 1808. No. 13 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
This belongs to a group of drawings (along with PAH3780, PAH3785) made by Schetky at St Aubin, Jersey, in 1808.
It is inscribed in the upper centre 'St. A
1808
National Maritime Museum
22ft Cutter (1808). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, the midship section, and the longitudinal half-breadth for a 22ft five-oared clinker-built Cutter (1808). Mould Loft Number 16.
Signed by George Hilhouse [Shi
January 1808
National Maritime Museum
55ft one-gun Gunboat (circa 1808). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, longitudinal half-breadth, profile, and deck plans for a 55ft one-gun Gunboat (circa 1808) built at Gibraltar.
Reverse of the plan: Plan showing the mast, yard and sail plans fo
Possibly early 1808
National Maritime Museum
Board Room of the Admiralty. Print. Plate 3 in volume 1 of Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' ( 3 vols, 1808-11); has extensive accompanying descriptive letterpress in the book.
Published 1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Coasting Schooner. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Dock at Bristol with a Trader. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. For description, see coloured copy PAD7775. This example is an uncoloured impression on a full untrimmed sheet, sound but in need of cleaning and flattening of old folds.
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. One of a series of prints of seamen and shipping by Atkinson, on which see PAD7785 for further information. One man is sitting on a bench to the left by the corner of a masonry wall, with a crutch leaning on the seat beside him. The
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. Stored in mount with PAD7775, which see, for notes.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
HMS Caledonia (1808); Warship; 1st rate; 120 guns. Scale: Unknown. A model made in two halves showing two designs for the circular stern for HMS Caledonia (1808), made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull, rudder
Unknown
National Maritime Museum
Joseph Cotton F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House. Print. Joseph Cotton (1746-1825) was appointed Deputy Master of Trinity House in 1803. He served as a Director of the East India Company between 1795 and 1823. For several years he was also the Chai
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Peter Boats. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum