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).
Bateaux à vapeur amarrés au port de Blasieholmen vue depuis l\'étage d\'un immeuble, Stockholm, Suède, A 7 028 S
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bateaux à vapeur amarrés au port de Blasieholmen, vus depuis l\'étage d\'un immeuble, Stockholm, Suède, A 69 540 XS
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bateaux à vapeur amarrés au port de Blasieholmen, vus depuis l\'étage d\'un immeuble, Stockholm, Suède, A 71 268 X
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bateaux à vapeur amarrés au port de Blasieholmen, vus depuis l\'étage d\'un immeuble, Stockholm, Suède, A 71 272 XS
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Bateaux à vapeur amarrés au port de Blasieholmen, vus depuis l\'étage d\'un immeuble., Stockholm, Suède, A 71 273 XS
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hall d\'accueil et guichets de la Banque de Suède, Stockholm, Suède, A 7 029 S
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hall d\'accueil et guichets de la Banque de Suède, Stockholm, Suède, A 7 030
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hall d\'accueil et guichets de la Banque de Suède, Stockholm, Suède, A 71 275 XS
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La salle de réunion de la Banque de Suède, Stockholm, Suède, A 7 031
septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
5 year old Rosie Passeralla of Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog. Brown Mills, N.J, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
A.D.T. boy, 13 years old. 1 1/2 years at it. Works from noon till 10:30 P.M. Said he carries notes, etc. Burlington, Vt, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
American Woolen Mills. Winooski, Vt, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Enligt fotografens journal Lyckorna 19091918: "Abrahamsson, Mina Lyckorna".
1 September 1910
Bohusläns museum
Enligt fotografens journal Lyckorna 19091918: "Abrahamsson, Mina Lyckorna".
1 September 1910
Bohusläns museum
Enligt fotografens journal Lyckorna 19091918: "Lund, Fr. Beda Lyckorna".
1 September 1910
Bohusläns museum
Enligt fotografens journal Lyckorna 19091918: "Lund, Fr. Beda Lyckorna".
1 September 1910
Bohusläns museum
Enligt fotografens journal nr 2 19091915: "Johansson, Frida Tjäderöd Svenshögen".
1 September 1910
Bohusläns museum
Frances Frigineto, 3 years old, Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Frank Denato, 6 years old, Tom, 4 years old, and Domino, 12 years old, live in Philadelphia and padrone, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
General view of part of Whites Bog. Brown Mills, N.J., September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Rose Biodo, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Working 3 summers, minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, of Philadelphia. Picking cranberries at Theodore Budd's Bog, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the bushel man. Whites Bog, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Small Newsie at depot. Burlington, Vt, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Small shack on Forsythe's Bog occupied by DeMarco family, 10 in the faiily living in this one room, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Small shack on Forsythe's Bog occupied by DeMarco family, 10 in the family living in this one room, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
Young boy working for Hickok Lumber Co. Burlington, Vt, September 1910
Taken some time in Sep 1910
The U.S. National Archives
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 448
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 449
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 450
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 451
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 452
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 453
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 454
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, De Kongsberg à Notodden, Norvège, A 455
2 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, Heddal, près de Notodden, Norvège, A 460
3 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, Heddal, près de Notodden, Norvège, A 461
3 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
, Heddal, près de Notodden, Norvège, A 462
3 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Abris surplombant le lac de Mosvati (?), Rjukan, Norvège, A 476
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Barrage, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 463
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 465
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 466
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 467
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 468
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 469
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 470
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama aux environs de Rjukan, Près de Rjukan, Norvège, A 471
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama de la vallée, Rjukan, Norvège, A 475
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama de la vallée., Rjukan, Norvège, A 474
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Panorama général, Rjukan, Norvège, A 473
4 septembre 1910
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine