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).
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Recreation and community activities, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Recreation and community activities, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Shack Community Center, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. The Shack Community Center, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. The Shack Community Center, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Typical scene of the Shack Community Center activity, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed man attending meeting of the Workers Alliance Council, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miner, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miner, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miners, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miners, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Vincent Lopez - Mexican miners, Bertha Hollow, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Scott's Run, West Virginia. Woman gathering coal, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Second shot of a worker taking a bottle of of an I. S. automatic blowing machine for testing, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Silk skeins soaking in a solution of boiled water. This is done to free the silk of gum, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
The completed warp. The operator is shown untying the sections of the warp from the winding frame, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
The letterer in the Whitall Tatum mould shop. This man is chiseling out by hand letters in the mould of a bottle, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
The warp threads of the section that has just been wound on the frame have been cut, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
This skilled machinist is running a machine which faces off the mould and carves it to the shape of the bottle, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Tying the broken ends of a warp thread, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Warp threads being wound off of the frame on to the beam, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Weaver tying broken ends of warp thread from front of loom, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Weaver tying ends of broken warp thread on backside of loom, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Whitall Tatum packer testing bottles before putting them into the carton at the lower right hand corner, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Woman pulling out small, cylindrical piece of machine, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Worker finishing the end of a sulphur determinator, March 1937
Taken some time in Mar 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Barber-Colman Automatic Spooler. One girl here does work of 4 with hand-tying machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Barber-Colman High Speed Warper. This machine is using 345 ends which are run into the warp, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Cotton from several bales of different grades are mixed and go through the picker. This removes seed and foreign matter, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Marber-Colman Automatic Warp tying machine. Knot tyer for warp. Ties 250 knots a minute. Can run up to 6000 warp threads. Operator tending-Fully Automatic, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Barber-Colman Automatic Spooler. Showing side of machine as operator takes off full cheese, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Barber-Colman Automatic Spooler. Tying machine close up, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Carding machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Carding machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Close up of Drawing frame (Side view). Shows cotton as it comes from machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Drawing frame (Side view). Showing cotton as it comes from machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Drawing in operation. Shows operator hand drawing end of warp through steel harness to get ends ready for weaving, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Finisher Lapper. Makes finished laps, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Piecing-up on slubber frame (Front view), April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Slubber frame (Front view) next step after Drawing. Doffing operation, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Spinning frame, Spinner Piecing-up, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Pacific Mills. Spinning, Doffing machine, April 1937
Taken some time in Apr 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works, May 1937
Taken some time in May 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Man working at machinery, May 1937
Taken some time in May 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Another view of large textile machine, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Jackson Winding and Warping Company. Picture of a Sipp-Eastwood DY type of High Speed Warper, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Jackson Winding and Warping Company. Picture of a Sipp-Eastwood DY type of High Speed Warper, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Jackson Winding and Warping Company. Picture of a Sipp-Eastwood DY type of High Speed Warper, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Jackson Winding and Warping Company. Picture of a Sipp-Eastwood DY type of High Speed Warper, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Family shop of Max Rosenbloom, 135 Sixth Avenue, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Jackson Winding and Warping Company, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Mill at 185 Sixth Avenue which houses a number of family shops, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Numerous mail boxes indicate numerous tenants in the mill building, 185 Sixth Avenue, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Unoccupied mill buildings on Straight Street, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Wishnack Silk Company. Fancies being woven, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Textiles. Wishnack Silk Company. Picture of a warp being entered. Shows the enterer and hand-in at work. The warp is slung from what is known as an entering frame, June 1937
Taken some time in Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Photograph of a Bathroom in the National Archives Building
Taken 7 Jun 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Longshoremen. Group of men supporting two bales being lifted by tractor crane, July 1937
Taken some time in Jul 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Longshoremen. Large bale being lifted by crane and directed by man on platform, July 1937
Taken some time in Jul 1937
The U.S. National Archives
Longshoremen. This shows the prevailing method of transferring bananas from the end on the conveyor that carries them from the hold of the ship onto the dock, July 1937
Taken some time in Jul 1937
The U.S. National Archives