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).
Warspite (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Warspite (1807), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after she had been cut down as a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate between 1837-40. The plan illustrates her as fitted for sea with
8 February 1842
National Maritime Museum
Warspite (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Warspite (1807), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, after she had been cut down as a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate between 1837-40. The plan illustrates her as fitted for sea with fitting details.
8 February 1842
National Maritime Museum
Chinese junk flag. An Imperial Chinese junk flag captured during the First China War 1839-42. It is part of a collection belonging to Sir Robert Oliver (1783-1848), Superintendent of the Indian Navy. The hand sewn flag is made of silk with a cotton hoist.
circa 1842
National Maritime Museum
Chinese junk flag. An Imperial Chinese junk flag captured during the First China War 1839-42. It is part of a collection belonging to Sir Robert Oliver (1783-1848), Superintendent of the Indian Navy. The hand sewn flag is made of silk with a cotton hoist.
circa 1842
National Maritime Museum
Chinese junk flag. An Imperial Chinese junk flag captured during the First China War 1839-42. It is part of a collection belonging to Sir Robert Oliver (1783-1848), Superintendent of the Indian Navy. The hand sewn flag is made of silk with a cotton hoist.
circa 1842
National Maritime Museum
Chinese junk flag. An Imperial Chinese junk flag captured during the First China War 1839-42. It is part of a collection belonging to Sir Robert Oliver (1783-1848).
A hand sewn triangular flag with an indented edge. It is made of green, crepe-woven sil
circa 1842
National Maritime Museum
Chinese junk pennant. An Imperial Chinese junk pennant captured during the First China War 1839-42. It is part of a collection belonging to Sir Robert Oliver (1783-1848), Superintendent of the Indian Navy.
The hand sewn flag is made of damask woven silk
circa 1842
National Maritime Museum
A gale in the pack, 20 Jan 1842. Medium includes bodycolour and graphite.
20 Jan 1842
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the 350th anniversary of Christopher Columbus, 1842. Medal commemorating the 350th anniversary of Christopher Columbus, 1842. Obverse: Bust of the discoverer Columbus cloaked (right), cloak open at the front above armour. Legend:
1842
National Maritime Museum
The Loss of Her Majesty's steam frigate Avenger... on the sunken rocks of Sorelli 20 Dec 1847 while on her passage from Gibraltar to Malta.... Inscribed: "The loss of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate 'Avenger' commanded by Captain Chas
10 Feb 1849
National Maritime Museum
Queen Victoria's Visit to HMS 'Queen' at Portsmouth, 1 March 1842. The painting records an event which took place on first of March 1842, during Queen Victoria's visit to Portsmouth. The Queen was accompanied by her husband Prince Alb
1842
National Maritime Museum
The launch of the Steam Packet ‘Forth’, 22 May 1841. Inscribed: “To the Directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. This plate of the launch of the Steam Ship Forth of 1940 tons burthen (on the 22nd May 1841 in the presence of Sixt
12 Mar 1842
National Maritime Museum
The Erebus passing through the chain of bergs, 13 Mar 1842. Technique includes scratching out. The Erebus is shown with the Terror when, during the Antarctic expedition in 1842 commanded by Captain James Clark Ross, they forced their way through the ice p
13 Mar 1842
National Maritime Museum
America (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the mizzen, main and foremast channel elevations, sections, and plan views for America (1810), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted to the plan of Captain James Couch [seniority: 24 January 1824].
Signed b
14 May 1842
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Wilberforce June 14th 1842. Medium includes graphite and pen and ink.
14 Jun 1842
National Maritime Museum
Calypso (1845); Coquette (cancelled 1851). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with hold and platforms for Calypso (1845) and Coquette (cancelled 1851), both 18-gun flush-decked Sixth Rate corvettes. The date was altered to 18 June 1842.
16 June 1842
National Maritime Museum
Nelson. Published at 14 Pall Mall East by P & D Colnaghi & Co. Publishers to the Queen & the Royal Family Aug 18 1842. Print
18 Aug 1842
National Maritime Museum
Blackwall Railway Terminus. Print entitled 'Blackwall Railway Terminus'. It shows the low terminus building of the Blackwall line at Green's Brunswick Wharf, designed by W. Tite, F.R.S. The terminus was built on land foming part of the Gree
20 August 1842
National Maritime Museum
Visit of Queen Victoria to Edinburgh, 1842. Arrival of the Royal Yacht Royal George at her anchorage off Inchkeith at Midnight, 31st Aug 1842. Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated. This drawing is a study related t
1842
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Daphne, 18 guns. Inscribed: "H.M.S. Daphne 18 guns" (with a wreath round the lettering). Two other vessels are depicted in the image.
Hand-coloured.
1 Sep 1842
National Maritime Museum
To Lord Alfred Paget This Print of his Iron Cutter Yacht Mystery... Winning the Royal Thames Yacht Club's Challenge Cup... dedicated by W.J. Huggins. Print
Oct 1842
National Maritime Museum
Boulogne harbour from the pier end, with luggers entering and leaving. Paris of warping sheaves in the fig. original art: drawing
8 Oct 1842
National Maritime Museum
The fish market, Boulogne, with fish wives and a fisherman. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all hi
8 October 1842
National Maritime Museum
The fish market, Boulogne, with fish wives and baskets of fish. Colour notes. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings re
8 October 1842
National Maritime Museum
Opening of the Newport Docks 10th October 1842. This print was advertised in 'The Monmouthshire Merlin' (Newport, XIV(DCCXVII), November 26, 1842), upon its publication as follows:
'OPENING OF THE NEWPORT DOCK
on MONDAY Next, will be Publis
1842
National Maritime Museum
The Repulse East Indiaman in East India Dock Basin, Sepr. 25th, 1839. The docks of London had extensive basins at high tide. A basin allowed large numbers of ships to gather together to avoid the delay of going through locks. Dock basins are large docks i
20 Oct 1842
National Maritime Museum
Wreck of the Dart (Sketched on the Morning after the Storm of the 25th Octr 1842) at Madeira. This lithograph was made after a watercolour by Emily Geneviève Smith, in the Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal (Madeira). It shows the wreck of the Dart (
1842
National Maritime Museum