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).
'Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver's Island, June 28th 1851' [Canada]. No. 53 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This drawing is reproduced in Fanshawe's 1904 bi
28 June 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Indians at Fort Rupert, Vancouver's Island, July 1851' [Canada]. No. 54 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title, with the additional inscription '1 and 3 are Ind
July 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) View of the Crystal Palace as built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibtion, July 1851; (Verso) landscape, ship and tree studies. No. 8 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
Mends perhaps drew this view across the Serpentine to Joseph Paxton's Crystal P
July 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Woody Point, Vancouver's Island, July 8th 1851' [Canada]. No. 55 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Woody Point is a prominent headland on the west coast of Van
8 July 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Deer Island, Beaver Harbour, Vancouver's Island, July 15th 1851' [Canada]. No. 56 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Beaver Harbour is a bay south of Port Hardy
15 July 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Fort Rupert, Beaver Harbour, Vancouver's Island, July 23rd 1851' [Canada]. No. 57 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fort Rupert was a former Hudson's Bay
23 July 1851
National Maritime Museum
Looking forward in lake boat, inscribed ' Riva-Lago Garda '. 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
probably August 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Victoria Settlement, Vancouver Island, Augt 13th 1851' [Canada]. No. 58 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. On return from Beaver Harbour on 3 August, the 'Daph
13 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
Method of fitting guns to the launch of Phaeton (1848). No scale. Plan showing a part elevation and plan for the bow and stern of the launch for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun, Fourth Rate Frigate, illustrating the fitting of guns to fire over the bow and ster
15 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
Bow details inscr 'Riva. Lago di Garda - Aug 20'. 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
probably 20 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
Stern view with rudder unshipped, inscr. ' Lago di Garda Boat, Riva. 20 Aug. 1851'. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings
20 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Gibraltar, with HMS 'Trafalgar' at anchor, a Spanish smuggling boat and the steamer 'Oberon', 26 August 1851; (Verso) 'Mon Juc' [Montjuïc] Barcelona, September 1851. No. 9 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) In
August - September 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) HMS 'Trafalgar' at anchor off the Mole head at Barcelona, with the castle of Montjuïc (continuation drawing from verso of PAI0857); (Verso) four shipping studies, including of a frigate action. No. 10 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
September 1851
National Maritime Museum
The Pilgrim's Galley, arrived at Jaffa, A.D. 1483 Gentleman's Magazine Sept 1851 Plate II (Galleys 35). Mounted with PAG8343-PAG8344, PAG8346-PAG8347.; Vignette.
Sep 1851
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Schooner Yacht America, 170 Tons. A broadside port view of 'America' in calm waters. A coastal view provides the backdrop, with buildings to the right and the headland to 'America's bow end. The print
8 Sep 1851
National Maritime Museum
The Match by the Club of all nations at Cowes The America Making a start ahead 9 Sep 1851. Signed by artist.
9 Sep 1851
National Maritime Museum
Mr Rust, editor & renovator of the "Pacific Star", and his brother, Dr Rust, outside a saloon in Sacramento City [California], September 1851. No. 59 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page belo
16 September 1851
National Maritime Museum
St Mark's Square Venice. Dated 16 Sept. 1851. 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 his travels
16 September 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Grass Valley, near Nevada City, California, Septr. 18th 1851'. (Updated, September 2014.) No. 60 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fanshawe and the 'Daphne
18 September 1851
National Maritime Museum
Denia Opium clipper topsail schooner built Cowes 1840 (shown off China coast 1851). Signed by artist and dated.
29 Sep 1851
National Maritime Museum
'San Francisco, California, Octr 6th 1851'. No. 61 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Fold-out panoramic drawing on two joined sheets, the right one fixed to the album page, which is captioned by the artist below the image, as title. T
6 October 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) HMS 'Ganges' off Fort Trinidad, Rosas Bay, south-eastern Spain, 9 October 1851; (Verso) Lord Nelson's House, Port Mahon, 12 November 1851. No. 12 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed top left, 'Fort Trinidad / Rosas
October - November 1851
National Maritime Museum
The America Winning the Match at Cowes, for the Club Cup... August 22nd 1851. 'America' is depicted from her bow quarter, pitiching at an angle so that the deck and crew are clearly visible. The water is choppy but it is an otherwise fine day. A
22 Oct 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Sketch of two young women, one sitting and reading the other stretching and yawning (drawn by Lord Bury) with a drawing of a tree alongside; (Verso) HMS 'Queen' off the 'Island of Brada, Ivisa' [Ibiza?] 26 October 1851. No. 11
circa October 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Storm at Mazatlan [Mexico], Octr 28th 1851'. No. 62 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. This drawing is reproduced in Fanshawe's 1904 biography, f. p. 292 as
28 October 1851
National Maritime Museum
Piazetta, Venice, flooded. Dated 10 Nov 1851. 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 his travels, but
10 November 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Sketch of Port Mahon, 12 November 1851; (Verso) study of HMS 'Queen' at Malta, 3 March 1852. No. 13 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed top left 'Port Mahon / Novr 12th 51' and top right 'Queen'. This draw
November 1851 - March 1852
National Maritime Museum
Provision tanks for all classes of warships (1852). No scale. An Admiralty office plan copied from Portsmouth Dockyard showing the provision tanks for ships of the line to 36-gun Frigates, and for 28-gun Ships and smaller, to replace the wooden tanks usu
6 February 1852
National Maritime Museum
Intrepid (1850); Pioneer (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck and hold illustrating the cabin and storage arrangements for Intrepid (1850), and Pioneer (1850), both purchased merchant ships converted as 'Arctic Schooners' for the Fr
28 November 1851
National Maritime Museum
Intrepid (1850); Pioneer (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship section illustrating the mode of strengthening the hull and the fitting of the Silvester warming apparatus, and the inboard profile illustrating the pipe arrangements and bow strength
28 November 1851
National Maritime Museum
Intrepid (1850); Pioneer (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck illustrating the diagonal doubling on the deck for Intrepid (1850), and Pioneer (1850), both purchased merchant ships converted as 'Arctic Schooners' for the Franklin sea
28 November 1851
National Maritime Museum