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).
Text till bilden: "Stadsoch provinsiallaläkaren Otto Edvard Åhlström född 1821 6/10 Nyköping död i Uddevalla den 5 november år 1897. Han synes vara Riddare av Nordstjärne Orden".
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Träbron i Uddevalla
Fotografen Maria Lundbäck föddes i Uddevalla där fadern var bryggeriägare.
Hon lärde sig fotografyrket av fotograf Josefina Rydholm. Så småningom övertog Maria ateljén på S&ou
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla Gustafsberg, varmbadhuset."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla parti från Bohusbanan"
Tryckt text på vykortets baksida: "Uddevalla pappersh. Hildur Anderson imp. Maria Lundbäck foto."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla Torget med Kyrkan och Kyrktornet".
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla Utsikt från kyrktornet".
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla Varmbadhuset, bassinen."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla, Byfjorden."
Handskriven text på vykortets framsida: "Fröland A."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla, Nya landsvägen till Gustafsberg."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla, Parti från Norra Hamngatan."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla. Elementarläroverket för gossar".
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Uddevalla. Gustafsberg. Strandvägen."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Tryckt text på vykortets framsida: "Wilhelm von Brauns graf å Uddevalla kyrkogård."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
Uppgift enligt fotografen: "Ljung. Västkustens Ungdomsskola Ljungskile."
1 January 1883
Bohusläns museum
England v. Australia Cricket Match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, January 27 1883 / by unknown photographer
Taken 27 Jan 1883
State Library of New South Wales collection
Enligt text som medföljde bilden: "Bundsens uppvaktning. Den 4 Februari 1883 Uppvaktande Lysekils medborgare. Tullinspektören E.G Bundsen, för att bringa honom sin hyllning och tack för det han under en tid av 25 år, på
4 February 1883
Bohusläns museum
30 ft Cutter for Neptune (1874), and Minotaur (1863). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the sail and rig elevation of a 30 ft Cutter for Neptune (1874), a Neptune class, three-masted turret Ironclad, and for Minotaur (1863), a 36-gun broadside armoured Ironclad
Dated: 12 March 1883
National Maritime Museum
27 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sail plan for a 27 ft Cutter, with a standing lug, as proposed with reference to the Controller's order of 28 February 1883. Signed J. Palmer [Additional Staff Captain for Service at Keyham, February 1882
Dated: April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48. Engineers' General Arrangement Plan for the turret battleship HMS Dreadnought (1875), as fitting prior to being commissioned in 1884. The plan shows lead of steam (and hydraulic?) pipes and auxiliary machinery, and h
3 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48. Engineers' sketch general arrangement of the main deck for the turret battleship HMS Dreadnought (1875), as fitting prior to being commissioned in 1884.
Shows original torpedo tubes and turret roller path.
3 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48. Outline sketch General Arrangement showing the upper deck, tops of turrets, and Flying Deck (and coaling scuttles) for the turret battleship HMS Dreadnought (1875), as fitting prior to being commissioned in 1884.
Rubber s
3 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48. Engineers' General Arrangement of Machinery and Pipework for the turret battleship HMS Dreadnought (1875), as fitting in 1883 prior to being commissioned in 1884. Not labelled as to function but fully dimensioned (e.g.
3 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48: Plan shpwing the arrangement of engines and boilers as fitted by Messrs Humphry's Tennant & Co and placed on board the turret battleship HMS Dreadnought (1875), as fitting prior to being commissioned in 1884. The p
3 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
27 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the rig and sail plan as shown on the official lithographs, and the proposed rig with a standing lug for 27 ft Cutters. Signed J. Angear [Chief Constructor, Devonport Dockyard, unknown dates].
Dated: 7 April 1883
National Maritime Museum
Steel screw steamers Czar and Czaritza built by Sir W G Armstrong, Mitchell & Co for the Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Co.... Signed by artist in plate.; No.182.
Jun 1883
National Maritime Museum
Gekleurde tekening van de stoommolen [oliemolen] aan de Weg naar Laren te Zutphen (bij Oostveensche brug), juni 1883.
1 June 1883
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen
A head to torso portrait of Captain Matthew Webb from the Illustrated London News. A head to torso engraved portrait of Captain Matthew Webb within a printed oval surround. This portrait is taken from the Illustrated London News when reporting his death i
July 1883
National Maritime Museum
'Rogie Falls, Rosshire, Augt 1883' [Scotland]. No. 41 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The Rogie Falls are well-known beauty spot near Contin and Loch Garv
August 1883
National Maritime Museum