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).
Admiralty Master Gyro Compass AP1005. Gyrocompasses were first successfully developed at the beginning of the 20th century as a solution to the problems of magnetic variation and deviation that are inherent in magnetic compasses. They use the properties o
1930s
National Maritime Museum
Deck scene on the 'Iquique'. A painting along the deck of the 'Iquique' and showing the deck-house and mast on the right. The sails frame the image, creating a complex canopy over the painting and attached by taut ropes on the left. In
1930s
National Maritime Museum
Enfield No 2 Mark I. Enfield No 2 Mark 1 revolver. Wooden grips are applied to either side of the butt. A ring is fitted to the base of the butt. The frame is solid with the barrel and made entirely of steel. Fitted with a six chamber cylinder. Double act
1930s
National Maritime Museum
La gare de l\'Est avant les travaux d\'agrandissement de 1930, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 727 XS
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est avant les travaux d\'agrandissement de 1930, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 728 XS
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est depuis le pont La Fayette dans l\'axe de la rue La Fayette, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 733 XS
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est depuis le pont La Fayette dans l\'axe de la rue La Fayette, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 734 XS
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est rue d\'Alsace, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 729 X
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est rue d\'Alsace, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 730 X
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est rue d\'Alsace, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 731 X
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La gare de l\'Est rue d\'Alsace, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 732 XS
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Mailboat from St Kilda Island. St Kilda mailboat. A crudely made, boat-shaped block of wood with hollowed out interior, closed by a swing lid. In poker work on the lid 'St Kilda MAIL BOAT LETTERS INSIDE'. The container is attached to a float mad
pre 1930
National Maritime Museum
Mark II. Astro Compass 6A/1174. Cylindircal flanged base; three knurled levelling screws for circular plate marked 0-360 by 2 degrees; rectangular extension holding two spirit levels and marked 'True Course' with an arrow. Two trunnions and a ca
about 1930
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial clockwork globe. Terrestrial clockwork globe. Geographical details on the sphere show California drawn as a peninsula. The Great Wall of China is depicted. In South America, there are two labels. New Guinea is still a part of the hypothetical
Gores: 1620; Watch movement: circa 1650; Globe assembled: 1930
National Maritime Museum
The 'Cutty Sark', Bow View. A large and dramatic evocation of the bow of the 'Cutty Sark', showing a carved figurehead. In this highly stylized painting the ship is shown moving through the waves at sunset. The sails of the ship loom a
1930s
National Maritime Museum
Une rue à Sakété ?, Dahomey (actuel Bénin), Afrique, A 71 097 X
janvier 1930 (?)
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Une rue à Sakété ?, Dahomey (actuel Bénin), Afrique, A 71 098 X
janvier 1930 (?)
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Voies ferrées de la gare de l\'Est vues depuis la rue de l\'Aqueduc, Paris (Xe arr.), France, A 73 735 X
Avant 1930
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
A man is recording sound effects, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
A man playing the Kantele in front of a broadcast van, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Broadcast van and a reindeer, Inari, Lapland, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Engineer Eero Frantsila beside Telefunken transmission equipment in Lahti radio station, 1930's.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Enligt senare noteringar: "Fastigheten Södra Drottninggatan 11 Uddevalla, bostadshus i trä."
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Enligt senare noteringar: "Tvådelad reproduktion.
Kontor i Konsumbutik. På väggen hänger en tavla med den första Konsumbutiken i stationssamhället, den är numera byggshop hos Sohlbergs Trävaru AB." (BJ)
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Flygfoto över Västgöta regemente I 6 kasernområde i Vänersborg.
1 January 1930
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Interiörbild från ett rum med liggande panel. I en alkov syns en väggfast bänk och ett bord.
Vid väggen står två symaskiner. Ett blankpolerat bord med fyra pallar står i rummet.
Gläborgs anstalt för u
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Kungligt besök i samband med paradering av Göta livgarde I 2; Gustav V, Gustav VI Adolf och arvprins Gustav Adolf tillsammans med Louise Mountbatten.
1 January 1930
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Kvinnor och män vid Munkedals vattenfabrik. Mannen i rund hatt kan vara Gustav Foss.
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Landskap. Västergötland.
Branden i bomullsspinneriet 3:e våningen 1930. ::
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Landskap. Västergötland.
Dagmar Svensson blir troligen uppvaktad (blomvas). Systern Annie vid spisen.
"Slipans" töser. Portelius var farbror.
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Landskap. Västergötland.
Omkring 1930-1940. Jonsereds IF: Okänd, Nils Zacharoff, Einar Larsson, Sigge Lindberg, Daniel Svensson, okänd, John Helgesson, Torvald Åkesson, John Lundin, Karl-Erik Lundberg, Erik Svensson "Kirren&
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Män, kvinnor och barn på ett spontant gruppfoto ute i det fria.
Kanske en vän- eller släktsammankomst ?
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Martti Jukola reporting from a sports event, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Montage med Tanums och Grebbestads kyrkor och foton på tre präster.
På den stora bilden i mitten: prosten Karl Richard Helde (1882-1946) f. i Uddevalla.
Kom till Tanum som pastorsadjunkt 1907. Vald till komminister i Lurs församling
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Office in the Radio House in Fabianinkatu, Helsinki, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Porträtt av Johan Kristian Stamer, kapten vid Hälsinge regemente I 14.
1 January 1930
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Porträtt av Rickard Henrik Nilsson, löjtnant vid Hälsinnge regemente I 14.
1 January 1930
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
President Kyösti Kallio speaking on the radio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio announcer Ebba Jakobson-Lilius in a continuity unit, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm interviewing a man fixing a car, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Radio reporter Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Reporter and announcer Alexis af Enehjelm, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Soldater ur Karlsborgs artillerikår A 10 uppställda på kaserngården 1930. Soldaterna bär uniform m/1886, m/1910 och m/1923. I bakgrunden en man som leder en cykel.
1 January 1930
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erkki Linko in the studio, 1930s.
Taken 1 Jan 1930
Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle
Tre flygplan S 6 i luften. Patrullupplösning efter flygning i formation.
1 January 1930
Flygvapenmuseum
Ung kvinna i skinnjacka och med motorcykelglasögonen uppskjutna över pannan,
står skrattande vid sidan om en buske.
Troligen Madeleine Sörensen, g. Sager (1909-1988). Dotter till ryttmästaren m.m. Einar Sörensen (1875- ) oc
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Uppgift enligt fotografen: "Uddevalla. Bilkrock v Frideborg. Kungsgatan."
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum
Uppgift enligt fotografen: "Uddevalla. Gustafsberg, flotte o roddbåt."
1 January 1930
Bohusläns museum