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).
Flight Sub Lieutenant Basil Frederick Murray Hughes. Unit: Royal Naval Air Service. Death: 1 December 1915, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, buried at the Gibraltar North Front Cemetery.
Died 1 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth George Haslam Ford. Unit: 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 1 December 1915, Western Front.
Died 1 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Ernest Henderson 738. Unit: 23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 7 December 1915, killed in action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 7 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Galt. Unit: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 09 December 1915 Messines Western Front
Died 9 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Charles Pearse 3060. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 09 December 1915 Dardanelles
Died 9 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Harcus was born in Orkney, Scotland in 1881 and was a fluent speaker of Gaelic. He emigrated to Australia in 1907 and, after spending a year in New Zealand, settled in Sydney where he qualified as a barrister in 1912. During this time, he also ser
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Frederick Maddocks 957. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 December 1915 Egypt & Palestine
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Collis 14153. Unit: "A" Company, 9th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 11 December 1915, missing in action, Macedonia.
Died 11 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Austin James Condon 608. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1915 Killed in action
Died 12 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Colonel Ernest Octavius Wight. Unit: Divisional Assistant Director of Medical Services, 49th (West Riding) Division, Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 19 December 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 19 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Walter Edward Cock 16170. Unit: C Company, 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment, 6th Division. Death: 19 December 1915 Killed in action at Ypres Western Front
Died 19 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Sebright Edward Coffin. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 20 December 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 20 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant C S Shippey. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 21 December 1915 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 21 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Eric George Wellesley. Unit: 8th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 21 December 1915 Wounded and Missing in Action while on patrol near Armentieres Western Front
Died 21 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Edward Riley 946. Unit: C Company, 26th Battalion, 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 December 1915 Died of pneumonia at St Ignatius Hospital Malta Gallipoli / Dardanelles
Died 22 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lt Leighton interrupted his studies at Oxford University to enlist. He died, aged 19, of wounds received in the trenches at Hebuterne on 23 December 1915. Lt Leighton was the fiance of Vera Brittain, author of 'Testament of Youth' in which she describe
Died 23 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Andrew Johnston 1050A. Unit: 41st Battalion, attached to D Company, 9th Australian Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 December 1915 died of wounds at Delville Wood, Western Front. Son of Charles and Amelia Anne Johnston.
Died 24 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Edgar Moffett Sirett 2922. Unit: D Company, 15th Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles). Death: 24 December 1915 Wounded at Hohenzollern Redoubt 23 December 1915; died at 18 Casualty Clearing Station. Western Fro
Died 24 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edward Vere Birch-Reynardson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 25 December 1915
Died 25 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Carson. Unit: 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 27 December 1915 Missing in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 27 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Brevet Colonel Ernest Robert Rainier Swiney. Unit: 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 30 December 1915 Possibly lost at sea in the Mediterranean Egypt
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain James Whyte Swanston. Unit: Mercantile Marine, SS Clan Macfarlane (Glasgow). Death: 30 December 1915 Last seen on the 4 January 1916 after his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean near Crete Mediterranean Sea
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum