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).
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, 1770-1843. Brace entered the navy in 1781, became Lieutenant in 1792, Commander in 1797 and Captain in 1800. In 1803 he became flag-captain to Admiral Cornwallis. He held commands at home and later in the Mediterranean until
1837
National Maritime Museum
Rt Honble George Keith Elphinstone, Admiral Lord Keith, K.B. Keith. Print
1837
National Maritime Museum
Scout (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck as fitted for Scout (1832), an 18-gun Sloop.
Signed by John Fincham [Master Shipwright, 1835-1839] and T Sturdee [Unknown].
2 February 1837
National Maritime Museum
Seringapatam (1837); Cargo vessel; East Indiaman. Scale: 1:48. A full hull model of the East Indiaman Seringapatam (1837) built entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted and varnished. The hull is built with planks glued and p
circa 1837
National Maritime Museum
Sheepshanks telescope. This 6ft 7inch equatorially mounted refractor is named after the donor of its object glass, Rev Richard Sheepshanks (1794-1855). In 1838 it was mounted in the South (or Sheepshanks) Dome, east of the Circle Room, which was built ori
1837
National Maritime Museum
Shipping in the Bristol Channel. Merchant shipping is shown in the Bristol Channel, off the mouth of the Avon, in the year of the accession of Queen Victoria. The ship on the far left is shown in port-broadside view at anchor, with a quarter-gallery windo
1837
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of a vessel caught in the ice, probably HMS Terror. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0281, PAF0283-PAF0285.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of HMS Terror just after her arrival in Loch Swilly Septr 1837. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0277, PAF0279-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Sketch showing the position of HMS Terror at daylight July 14 just before the people were called from the ice. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0259, PAF0261-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Sketch showing the state of HMS Terror on her arrival in Loch Swilly. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0278, PAF0280-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the midship section with midship framing elevation for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard.
3 May 1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard. The l
3 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with a faint pencil section for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard.
Circa 1837
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard detail for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel as converted for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
The plan is subsequently dated December 1837 after it was used at Chatham to assist with the
March 1836
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck illustrating the cabin arrangements and some fitted furniture for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel as convered for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
Signed by William Stone [Master Ship
December 1837
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with some deck fittings for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel converted for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1830-1839].
December 1837
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of the Nile. Presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Directors of the British Institution. A reprint of PAD4022, the orginal being for E.H. Locker's 'Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Comanders..' (1831/2) but this one being later and f
1837
National Maritime Museum
The method of clinching a chain cable by using a slip-hook, for all warshps. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the method of clinching (fastening) a chain cable using a slip hook, for all warships. It seems this plan was drawn at Chatham in January 1837, but mo
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
The people having been working... had hardly been off... when the mass broke away stricking [sic]... the Ship's side.... Bound with PAF0252-PAF0260, PAF0262-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
The Raft of the Medusa / 'Les Naufragés de la Méduse'. No.12. Theodore Gericault's large canvas, 'Les Naufragés de la Méduse' (Raft of the Medusa) became an icon of early 19th-century French Romanticism
1837
National Maritime Museum
William IV, 1765-1837., As midshipman on Board Prince George, 1782. Print. See PAD4599, another copy, for details.
1837
National Maritime Museum
HM Corvette Orestes at anchor (in a storm) Malaga, Jany 1837. Mounted on page with PAI4356, and in album with PAI4334-PAI4356, PAI4358-PAI4597.
Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Arrival of the Lord High Admiral in Portsmouth Harbour, July 31st 1827. Technique includes etching.; Stored in mount with PAD5980.
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Esméralda : revue littéraire, artistique et fashionable (modes de Paris)' 1837-01-01
1 January 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
The Howe 120 Guns in the Medway. Port Broadside view of the 1st rate, 120-gun Howe in ordinary anchored in the Medway. Two cutters are along side. Various other vessels are shown, including a stern view of another in ordinary, one under full sail and anot
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
The Warspite and Musquito Brig, Saluting His R.H. the Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign on his Approach to Spithead on the Evening of July 30 1827. Technique includes engraving.; Mounted with PAD6071.
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth In the year 1827, with Views of the Russian Squadron, by Henry Moses. Plate 2: The Warspite and Musquito Brig Saluting His R.H. the Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admir
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth In the year 1827, with Views of the Russian Squadron, by Henry Moses. Plate 3: The Lord High Admiral returning from his inspection of the Warspite. July 31 1827. Techni
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth In the year 1827, with Views of the Russian Squadron, by Henry Moses. Plate 4 [?]: The Lightning Steamer bringing the Royal Sovereign into Portsmouth Harbour July 31 18
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth In the year 1827, with Views of the Russian Squadron, by Henry Moses. Plate 5 [?]: Arrival of the Lord High Admiral in Portsmouth Harbour, July 31st 1827. Technique inc
1 Jan 1837
National Maritime Museum
Cable compressor. No scale. A plan showing the cut away elevation and plan view from below deck of the upper chain compressor approved by the Board of Admiralty as the upper compressor for all His Majesty's Ships, but later not to be adopted until fu
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Violet (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail (and leeboards), and longitudinal half-breadth for Violet (1835), a Tender to HMS Survey Sloop Fairy (1826), as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard by Admiralty Order, 19
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Esméralda : revue littéraire, artistique et fashionable (modes de Paris)' 1837-02-01
1 February 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Esméralda : revue littéraire, artistique et fashionable (modes de Paris)' 1837-02-01
1 February 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the sail profile with mast and spar dimensions, and sail area, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
11 February 1837
National Maritime Museum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Le Follet Courier des Salons' 1837-02-24
24 February 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Aankondiging van de prent met de banieren bij het tweede eeuwfeest van de Utrechtse Hogeschool, juni 1836
28 February 1837
Rijksmuseum
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Esméralda : revue littéraire, artistique et fashionable (modes de Paris)' 1837-03-01
1 March 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Modeprent (in kleur) uit 'Esméralda : revue littéraire, artistique et fashionable (modes de Paris)' 1837-03-01
1 March 1837
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Message of President Martin Van Buren nominating Henry Wheaton Envoy to be Exraordinary and Minister Penipotentiary to Prussia, 03/06/1837
Taken 6 Mar 1837
The U.S. National Archives
Message of President Martin Van Buren nominating Joel R. Poinsett to be Secretary of War, 03/07/1837
Taken 7 Mar 1837
The U.S. National Archives