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).
Arm badge, Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1853, Leading Rating. Leading Rating's arm badge.
1920s
National Maritime Museum
Card's Traverse Calculator. Card's Traverse Calculator comprises a grid with a movable plastic rule, which is attached by a rivet to the lower left corner. Instructions for its use are printed on the bottom. The instrument is used to calculate t
about 1920
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich (Queen's House and Royal Naval College). An aerial perspective over the east side of the Queen's House and part of its east colonnade towards the Queen Mary Court of the Royal Naval College, whose dome is just included on the left. The
probably 1924
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich (Royal Observatory). A looser study from the same viewpoint as PAE2038, showing slightly less of the Meridian Building. The railings of the kissing gate leading to the path round the north side of Flamsteed House are in this case sketched in, lo
probably 1924
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich (Royal Observatory). A pencil study from the east, from below the brow of the hill, showing the Great Equatorial building on the left with Flamsteed House seen through winter trees beyond, centre. The date must be between 1919, when the time-bal
probably 1924
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Observatory. A winter-time study from the Octagon Room looking toward the old courtyard gate and lodge, with the Great Equatorial building and 28-inch telescope dome on the right, as far as the outline of the Airy Transit Room. Figures and bare
probably 1924
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Observatory. An evocative pencil sketch of the Royal Observatory from the east in its working days, before Second World War bomb damage and later restoration. A clutter of modern scientific instruments adorns the roof of Flamsteed House, as well
probably 1924
National Maritime Museum
Grindelwald. Grindelwald is a Swiss ski resort south-east of Interlaken. Although the Wyllies were married in Swizterland in 1879, this and other watercolours of the resort in the collection are the only evidence available that they had a holiday there, p
1920s
National Maritime Museum
Grindelwald. Wyllie and his wife were married in Switzerland in 1879. This watercolour, painted much later perhaps during a skiing holiday at Grindelwald in the 1920s, skilfully captures the effects of winter snow in the Alps.
1920s
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames, in front of the fish market. The view looks north from the basin of the inner harbour of La Rochelle, across the Quai des Dames and up the Rue Saint-Jean-du-Perot to the 17th-century entrance of the fish
1920s
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames, in front of the fish market. This is a looser and more subdued version of BHC1408, for which it may be a preliminary study: see that entry for fuller information. Two other examples (BHC1846 and BHC1852) a
1920s
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames. Previously titled ' A fishing vessel', this is one of several such harbour studies by Everett, all apparently of what used to be the main fish-landing wharf at La Rochelle, the broad Quai des Dam
1926
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats in the harbour. Previously titled 'Harbour Scene, France', this painting appears to be one of four showing fishing boats airing their sails at or off the Quai des Dames, the north side of the inner harbour at La Rochel
1926
National Maritime Museum
Oval silver arm badge from the Doggett Race 1920. Oval silver arm badge (brassard) won at the annual Doggett Race 1920.
The badge is embossed with a running horse (depicting the white horse of Hanover) and above it the word 'Liberty' represente
1920-21
National Maritime Museum
Portsmouth Point. Old Portsmouth is seen across Portsmouth Harbour from the west, with the Round Tower and the entrance to the harbour on the right. Beyond the two sailing boats is the Tower House, the Wyllies' home from 1906. Wyllie has painted this
late 1920s
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, Pangbourne Nautical College. Obverse: A house flag within a circle. Legend: "NAUTICAL COLLEGE . PANGBOURNE". Reverse: within a wreath of two laurel branches the inscription: "AWARDED TO H.V.BAYLIS".
1920-1
National Maritime Museum
Roadside time recording clock. Time recorder inside a tamper-proof metal case for exterior use. These machines were installed along bus routes in London in the early twentieth century. Bus drivers would 'clock on' at various points to enable ins
1920s
National Maritime Museum
Study of the figurehead of HMS 'Victory'. A loose watercolour and pencil study, with notes on measurements, probably made while 'Victory' was under restoration in her permanent dry-dock at Portsmouth in the early 1920s, having been mo
early 1920s
National Maritime Museum
The 'Cutty Sark' at Sunset. Oil painting by the British artist John Everett of the 'Curry Sark' at Sunset. By the 1930s, Everett was experimenting with unusual compositions, rhythmic shapes and contrasting colours. The waves are painte
1920s-30s
National Maritime Museum