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).
Chaloupe canoniere No.5 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.5.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7355, PAD7357-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Chart of the Galapagos, surveyed in the merchant ship Rattler, and drawn by Capt. James Colnett, of the Royal Navy. Corrections to 1832.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:750 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: Graduated chart. Contents Note: Track of the Ratt
1832
National Maritime Museum
Chebec calabrais. No.21 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.21.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7371, PAD7373-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Christian Den Fjerde paa Trefoldighen i Slaget ved Femern; Swedes and Danes shows Christian IV wounded. Print
1832
National Maritime Museum
Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood. Technique includes stipple.; Facsimile signature printed below image.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Etude dans le port. No.12 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.12.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7362, PAD7364-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Fowey/Towey (1814), Tees (1817). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for building Fowey/Towey (1814), a 26/28-gun sloop at Buckles Hard by Mr Bathezar Adams.. Alterations in green ink relate to the conversion of Tees (18170 to a church ship for t
August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Fregate arrivant en rade. No.22 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.22.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7372, PAD7374-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
HMS Dee. Wooden figurehead from HMS 'Dee' (1832). It depicts a bearded river god wearing a crown, has been painted with polychrome oil paint and weighs 122 kilograms. The ship was a wooden paddle vessel of 704 tons built at Woolwich Dockyard in
1832
National Maritime Museum
HMS Forester. Male figurehead of HMS 'Forester', a 10-gun 'Cherokee' class brig-sloop built at Chatham Dockyard in 1832 and sold in 1843.
1832
National Maritime Museum
HMS Rhadamanthus (1832); Warship; Sloop; 5 guns. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of HMS 'Rhadamamthus' (1832), a 5-gun paddle steam sloop. Model is decked, fully equipped including boats, and is rigged on all three masts. Built in &l
1832
National Maritime Museum
Joseph Brown, a Greenwich Pensioner, circa 1832. This sensitive sketch is one of Burnet’s studies of old seamen for a painting of 1837 called ‘Greenwich Pensioners and Naval Heroes’, which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1837
1832
National Maritime Museum
Lynx (1833), Buzzard (1834), Termagant (1838). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile and upper deck plan for fitting Lynx (1833), Buzzard (1834), Termagant (1838), as 3-gun Brigantines (Hermaphrodite rigg). Note the modification to the fore most ra
25 September 1832
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the voyage of corvette 'Favorite', 1829-1832. Medal commemorating the voyage of corvette 'Favorite', 1829-32. Obverse: Inscription, 'VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE ENTREPRIS PAR LA CORVETTE LA FAVORITE COMMANDÉE
1832
National Maritime Museum
Murano. The original drawing of 'Boats near Murano' is in the City of Manchester Art Galleries and was no. 185 in the 1979 Stanfield exhibition catalogue (Tyne and Wear Museums [Sunderland Art Gallery]). This engraving faces p.180 in Charles Hea
1832
National Maritime Museum
Palancele tire a terre. No.24 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.24.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7374.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Palanceles divers. No.18 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.18.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7368, PAD7370-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Palanceles napolitains No.2 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.2.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7352, PAD7354-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Paquebot arrivant a Naples. No.23 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.23.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7373, PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Polaque de Prouda. No.10. Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.10.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7360, PAD7362-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Polaque sur le chantier. No.17 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.17.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7367, PAD7369-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Proposed 108ft two-masted, 16-gun Brig. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with figurehead and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 108ft two-masted, 16-gun Brig.
This looks to be a plan by John Peake [Master Shipwright at Portsmou
1847
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan includes alterations to the bowsprit and a note that the bow ports were to be fitted with chocks and iron hawse pipe
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan includes a note stating that the pumps were not to be fitted until required on application to the Surveyor. The bow port
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833); Sappho (1837). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing a half midship section for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan includes later proposed alterations from Plymouth Dockyard for Sappho (1837) in order to use an ol
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833); Sappho (1837); Wolverine (1836); Wanderer (1835); Harlequin (1836); Lily (1837). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck, hold and fore & aft platforms for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Later alterati
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Scoridora, bateau douanier. No.14 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.14.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7364, PAD7366-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
Speronare de Messine. No.19 Etudes de Batimens. Plate No.19.; Bound with PAD7351-PAD7369, PAD7371-PAD7375.
1832
National Maritime Museum
The Peak, Tenerife. This very light-damaged drawing - originally largely blue, as shown by the edges where a mount protected this from fading - is the only one in the NMM collection by Augustus Earle from the first part of the Fitzroy and Darwin voyage o
circa 1832
National Maritime Museum
The sailing ship Emma. original art: drawing. The Emma is shown going out of Malta in May 1832. Possibly painted by another member of the Cammilieri familly, other than Nicholas.
1832
National Maritime Museum
The ships 'Vigilant' and 'Harpooner' offshore. (Updated, October 2015) Oil painting entitled 'The ships "Vigilant" and "Harpooner" offshore', 'Harpooner' being on the right. Both were South Sea w
1832
National Maritime Museum
Thomas Allen (1771-1838) a Greenwich Pensioner, circa 1832. Oil study for John Burnet's 'Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar' displayed at Apsley House, London. The NMM holds a print of the complete
1832
National Maritime Museum
Thomas Brunton, 1774-1833. A three-quarter-length, seated portrait showing Brunton wearing a black cutaway coat and trousers, maroon waistcoat, black stock and white shirt and collar. He has brown hair and short side-whiskers. He displays his watch chain
1832
National Maritime Museum
Thomas Mathews, a Greenwich Pensioner, circa 1832. This sensitive sketch is one of Burnet’s studies of old seamen for a painting of 1837 called ‘Greenwich Pensioners and Naval Heroes’, which was exhibited at the British Institution in 18
1832
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835); Collingwood (1841). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail and framing, sheer lines with bow alterations and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Vanguard (1835) and Collingwoord (1841), both 80-gun Secon
26 November 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the midship section for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class Brigs to be built at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Symonds [Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1848].
24 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class Brigs to be built at Chatham Dockyard. Later alterations in green ink are taken from the model of HMS Rin
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck and hold for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class Brigs to be built at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Symonds [Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1848
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class Brigs to be built at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Symonds [Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1848].
9 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Warships; 74-guns. Scale: 1:12. One of a pair of models that illustrate two plans for scuppers to be fitted to lower gun decks of a 74-gun ship circa 1815. The whole model has been constructed from various types of wood, with the outboard face painted bla
circa 1815
National Maritime Museum
A royal visit to Greenwich Hospital. A steel-plate engraving, in only fair condition, with slight hand-colouring, of what appears to be a royal visit by river to Greenwich Hospital, seen here four-square from the Thames. According to Ralph Hyde's boo
probably 1833
National Maritime Museum
Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport. OB 1814. From the original of Abbot, in the collection of the Rt Honble The Viscountess Bridport. Technique includes line engraving.
1 Jan 1832
National Maritime Museum
The Honourable Company's Ship Bridgewater... on her homeward bound Voyage from China to England, on the 7th March, 1830... encountered a Hurricane... in 2 Hours the Gale abated and on the 10th April the ship reached Madras Roads under Jury Masts. Han
1 Jan 1832
National Maritime Museum
Proposed heads and urinals for the bow of a 46 gun Frigate. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing an elevation, plan, and section of part of the port bow for a 46 gun Fouth Rate Frigate, illustrating the configuration of the heads, urinals and wash trunk, as propose
20 January 1832
National Maritime Museum
'Neptune' (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile illustrating the diagonal bracing for 'Neptune' (1832), a 120-gun, First Rate, three-decker, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard. The alterations in pencil for a funnel and t
22 January 1833
National Maritime Museum
Demolition of Old London Bridge (low water), as it appeared January 24th 1832. Mounted with PAF3122-PAF3143, PAF3145-PAF3160.
The full title of this engraving by Edward Cooke is 'Demolition of Old London Bridge (low water), as it appeared January 24
Jun 1832
National Maritime Museum
H.C.S. MacQueen off the Start, 26th January 1832. Hand-coloured. The HCS 'Macqueen' is in the middle of the image. She was a three-masted British merchant ship. In this version, the small sailing vessel on the right is flying a British flag. On
1834
National Maritime Museum
H.C.S. MacQueen off the Start, 26th January 1832. Stored in mount with PAH8477. The 'Macqueen' is in the centre of the painting. In this version, the small gaff-rigged sailing vessel on the right is flying a Dutch flag. Both vessels are followin
1834
National Maritime Museum
Two schooners, close-hauled, with a small boat. original art: drawing
11 Apr 1832
National Maritime Museum
Calcutta (1831). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship section for Calcutta (1831), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as taken off.
Signed by Thomas Roberts [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1830-1837].
17 April 1832
National Maritime Museum
To His most Gracious Majesty King William the 4th, This Plate representing a View of the Island of St Helena, from a Painting in His Majesty's possession...is...inscribed.... Hand-coloured.
20 Apr 1832
National Maritime Museum
Qalasirssuaq (Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), circa 1832/5-1856. A half-length portrait showing the sitter in two poses, wearing a black jacket with a white shirt and wing collar and a black tie. On the left he is facing slightly to the right and looks for
probably 1851
National Maritime Museum
The Honourable East India Company's Ship Inglis... leaving St Helena, in July 1830 In Company with H.M. Frigate Ariadne and the H.C.Ships Windsor, Waterloo, Scaleby Castle, General Kidd, Farquharson & Lower Castle. Hand-coloured. The 'Ar
Jul 1832
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing and a sketch of the figurehead, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The bow port was to be fitted w
10 July 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half-stern board, sheer lines with midship framing and figurehead (sketch), and longitudinal half-breadth for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class B
10 July 1832
National Maritime Museum
'Slavery/Freedom'. In the 1830s, the drive to end colonial slavery coincided with widespread social discontent in Britain and demands for parliamentary reform and legislation to address the social problems associated with rapid industrialisation
1 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Slavery/Freedom. A lithograph print depicting freedom and slavery. In ‘freedom’, to the right, a well-fed and contented family in the Caribbean seem happy with their lot, despite their enslavement; happy slaves dance in the distance while trop
1 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Griffon (1832), Forester (1832), Buzzard (1834), Lynx (1833), and Termagant (1838).. Scale possibly: 1:96. Plan showing the 'hermaphrodite' rig (brigantine), stern board outline, and half deck plan for Griffon (1832) and Forester (1832), as wel
16 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
32ft Barge for Vernon (1832). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the modified body plan, modified sheer lines with inboard detail, and modified longitudinal half-breadth for a 14-oared 32 ft Barge built for Vernon (1832), a 48-gun Frigate. The modifications refl
27 September 1832
National Maritime Museum
Adam, First Viscount Duncan. OB.1804. From the Original of Hoppner in The Guildhall, London. Print
1 Oct 1832
National Maritime Museum
Loss of the Rothesay Castle On the Night of the 17th Aug 1831, with the loss of 100 Lives off the Puffin Rocks near Beaumaris. Hand-coloured.; Plate No.124.
1 Oct 1832
National Maritime Museum
Loss of the Rothesay Castle On the Night of the 17th Aug 1831, with the loss of 100 lives off the Puffin Rocks near Beaumaris. Plate No.124.; Stored in mount with PAD6644.
1 Oct 1832
National Maritime Museum
Studies of HMS 'Vernon', Spithead October 22nd 1832,' with sails unbent!'. No. 14 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed along lower edge of the sheet 'H.M.S Vernon – Spithead October 22d – 1832 {with/sails/unben
22 October 1832
National Maritime Museum
The barque 'Belzoni' entering the Harbour of Port Louis, Mauritius, Nov 1827. Inscribed: "The Belzoni. Andrew Talbert Commander, entering the Harbour of Port Louis, Mauritius, Novr 1827. Dedicated with permission Messrs Dunbar & Sons, b
21 Nov 1832
National Maritime Museum