Commons:Free media resources/Photography
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Here are a number of sources of public domain images on the Web.
The presence of a resource on this list does not guarantee that all or any of the images in it are in the public domain: you are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Wikipedia.
[edit] See also
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain images with missing articles
- w:Wikipedia:Copyrights
- Bad sources: list of sources that appear usable on commons but on closer inspection are not or are self contradictory
- Problematic sources
- Image upload page for registered users.
- Wikipedia List - Public domain image resources.
- Photographers - List of individual photographers websites with works under a free license.
[edit] Sources
Sources for media
- W:Wikipedia:Research resources - Books and Web Sites (for reference, not direct copying)
- W:Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources
- W:Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources - Misc. resources
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain resources
- W:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
- W:Wikipedia:Maps
[edit] General
- www.sunipix.com - Free photographs for personal and business use.
- America As It Was - a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U.S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U.S. locations.
- PicFindr - A "rich internet app" image search that finds free-to-use-commercially stock photography on other websites. Search by tag/keyword and usage restriction (none,permission,attribution etc..)
- PDFnet - Danish site with no copyright.
- Flickr: The Commons - "Describing the world's public photo collections." Many images with "no known copyright restrictions."
- Flickr - Flickr is a big photo sharing website. It has many pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. (Search both)
- Beware that Flickr is a problematic source – many images are acceptable, but many are not. See Commons:Problematic sources#Flickr and Commons:Flickr images for details.
- PDphoto.org - Free Public Domain Photo Database.
- Yotophoto - Search engine for free licenced photos.
- Public Domain Stock Photos - Not a big collection, but valuable.
- Geograph British Isles - Pictures of obscure UK places, many seem to be licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
- Gnu art - Media by GNU GPL licence.
- Free Online Pictures various pictures, especially of France, under a "no rights reserved" license (use {{FOLP|path}} template)
- Agência Brasil official agency of the Brasilian government, has pictures of Brasilian officials, including on official trips and meeting foreign dignitaries (use {{{Agência Brasil|photo number}}} template)
- Portraits of Oregon, published in the US before 1904, thus PD.
- OpenPhoto.net - fairly random collection, looks like aiming to be a "stock photography" site. Be sure to check the license carefully as they also have NC/ND images! Free registration required to download full-res images (login:commons pw:wikimedia)
- OpenCage's Photo Library - various pictures, especially of Japan. All pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License in Japanese.
- John Louie's Aerial Geology - aerial photos of geologically interesting places in California and Nevada, all placed in PD.
- Pictures of cars, including very special (and pre-war) ones:
- The Oberwolfach Photo Collection. Mathematicians, lots of them. All iamges tagged with Copyright:MFO are under {{cc-by-sa-2.0-de}}
- Entomart - insects (use {{attribution Entomart}})
- InsectImages.org - insects
[edit] Objects
[edit] Aeroplanes
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/flight/index.html
- http://www.nellis.af.mil/gallery/index.htm
- NASA Image Exchange
- http://www.af.mil/photos/
[edit] Archeological finds
[edit] Christianity related
[edit] Automobiles
- http://biphome.spray.se/anders.jensen/ (under Pictures)
[edit] Food
[edit] Furniture
- http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/2/5/12254/12254-h/12254-h.htm (now on Category:Illustrated History of Furniture)
[edit] Music
[edit] Paintings
Check the local laws. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.
- The Louvre
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
- Web Gallery of Art
- http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/index.jsp?lang=en
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (in Swedish only)
- http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/
[edit] Satellites
[edit] Ships
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ships/index.html U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Photo Library)
- http://www.navy.mil/view_photos_top.asp
[edit] Animals and plants
[edit] Animals
- http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
- http://pdphoto.org/
- http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opclibra.htm
- http://images.fws.gov/
- http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/images/
- http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html
[edit] Birds
- 1905 paintings http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/regengl.htm.
- Online copy of "Citizen Bird" containing drawings of about a hundred bird species (I have a paper copy, from which I can make nicer quality scans upon request. --Brion)
- Online copy of Fifty Birds of Town and City, published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[edit] Fish
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/index.html
- http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/natural_history.html (Only non-commercial reproduction is allowed!)
- http://images.fws.gov/
- http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/photos.html lineart drawings of a bunch of fish; also collections of photos of historical fisheries, research activities and NOAA
[edit] Insects
[edit] Extinct animals
- http://www.copyrightexpired.com/earlyimage/index.html All images were published before 1923, so they are in the public domain in the US.
- http://www.50birds.com/Default.htm All images were published before 1923, so they are in the public domain in the US.
- http://www.ivorybill.com/ Same as above, this page is a section of it.
[edit] Plants
- http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
- http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/images/
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/inneh.html
- http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/index.html
- University of Leuven, Belgium - Images free to use for non-commercial use.
- Biolib A collection of 68395 scanned pages from 290 books, some of them with expired copyrights.
[edit] Crops
[edit] Fruits/Vegetables
[edit] Protists
[edit] Nature/Science
- http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/index.shtml Many scientific images, a lot of them are in the public domain due to age.
- http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Everything is PD old.[1]
[edit] Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc)
- http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/land.htm Earth from Space
- http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/ USGS Earth Science Photo Library Archive
[edit] Medicine
- http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Numerous anatomy drawings from Gray's Anatomy
- http://www.autopsydb.org/iadbimag.htm Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR) Image Archive
- http://www.autopsydb.org/abpath.htm Public domain cytology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Borkowski.
- http://www.autopsydb.org/dermpath.htm Public domain dermatopathology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Grace F. Kao.
- http://art-bin.com/art/medhistorypix/omedicalimages.html Historical anatomical drawings
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/home.html Historical Anatomies on the Web - historical anatomical drawings (courtesy National Institutes of Health)
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html Dream Anatomy gallery
- http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/default.asp Material from the center for disease control and prevention (Note: some few pictures are still copyrighted)
[edit] Physics
- http://www.physicsforfree.com/ Physics for Free: Public domain physics textbook in pdf format with illustrations
[edit] Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/ STScI Publication of public domain photography taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (copyright notice)
- http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ Great Images in NASA library of images.
- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/picturegallery/index.shtml Gallery for the Spitzer Space Telescope (used to discover Sedna) at JPL
- http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html
- http://nix.nasa.gov/ NIX: NASA Image eXchange
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ NASA planetary image catalog
- http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ NASA image gallery
- http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ Johnson Space Center digital image collection
- http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/index.html 2MASS Atlas Image Gallery (public domain images, acknowledgment required)
- http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html High resolution Apollo photographs, as well as some Mercury and Gemini photographs
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov JPL (image policy) — note that not all image material is public domain, however what isn't is offered under a free license
[edit] Underwater
[edit] US National Parks
- http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html National Park Service Digital Image Index
- http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/cfprojects/photodb/Photo_search.cfm
- http://www.nps.gov/bibe/photogallery/photogallery.htm
[edit] Weather
- http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/atmo.htm
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/index.html
- http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/torscans.htm NOAA pictures of tornadoes
[edit] Chemistry
- http://157.98.10.135/Main_Pages/pub-Structures-list-tr.html (structure diagrams of toxic substances)
- http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/services/gifcreator/ Will generate (copyright kosher) GIFs or PNGs from molecular description files of may formats. Use {{CACTVSGIF}} for copyright on image page. Valid input formats include: MDL Molfile (or SD files), PDB, JCAMP/CS, CIF (Chiron interchange format, not Crystallographic formats), MDL RXN (Reaction file), RDF (Reaction Data File format), XYZ, SMD4, SMD5, CTX, CACTVS (binary, ascii, cbase), SMILES (including SMARTS subset), Compass, 441, Gaussian/Input, Gaussian/Archive, SCF, SHEL-X, XTEL (XTELPlot input format), Cerius (Ascii exchange format of CeriusII Toolkit), Sharc (SHift ARChives format), Alchemy, Hyperchem, Molconn-Z, Sybyl, Sybyl2, SLN (Sybyl line notation).
- German mirror to the above: http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/
[edit] History
[edit] Historical images
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site
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- Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them!
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- http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ - public domain images of American Political History
- http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at http://www.exclassics.com
- http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ Images from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, in many categories.
- http://www.old-picture.com/ Collection of images dating from 1850 to 1940, many are therefore in the public domain due to age.
[edit] Specific periods
- World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies
- Photos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
- http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in america 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine
[edit] People
- http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/index.html - A selection of portraits of historical figures
- http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ - A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html - more than 700 Daguerreotypes 1839 - 1864 (mostly portraits)
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html Creative Americans 1932 - 1964, photographs by Carl Van Vechten; 1400 public domain portrait photos
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/print Portraits of famous people, Library of Congress (not all public domain; remember, anything prior to 1923 is, and post-1922 images on the site that are copyright free are indicated)
- http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/photos/index.gb.html - portraits of many current heads of state and political figures. Images are free usable but should be credited to "Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Photographic Service"
- http://www.radiobras.gov.br/ (click "Fotografias" for today's) - Agência Brasil makes news photos available free of charge. List credit as "Photographer's_Name/ABr". Requires log-in, hard to navigate, but plenty of quality pics.
- http://www.generalsandbrevets.com - portraits of all the generals (+1,000) of the American Civil War.
- http://www.noelcollection.org/noel/noelimag.html - Noel Collection Image Bank asks for a backlink and non-commercial use but almost all are pre-1923 and so PD
- The Oberwolfach Photo Collection. Mathematicians, lots of them. All imges tagged with Copyright:MFO are under {{cc-by-sa-2.0-de}}.
[edit] Historical costumes
- http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html Hundreds of images of historical costumes from all over the world, from a German book published in 1861.
- http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600.technology/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/ Many images of historical costumes from the Levant. Published in Lebanon in 1955, therefore in the public domain, as long as the author, Margaret Clark Keatinge, is credited.
[edit] Movies
- http://www.archive.org/movies/ historical movies
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- Check rights before using! The Prelinger Archives are clear for reuse, but the other movie collections may not be. - Andre Engels
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[edit] Locations
[edit] Cities
[edit] Machine-readable raw map data
- CIA World Data Bank II: available from http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/ and from http://www.246.dk/ciaworld.html
[edit] Maps
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Library of Congress digital map archive 1500-2002 (some maps under copyright)
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/ U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration maps of the National Highway System (NHS)
- http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html PCL Map Collection -- most maps copyrighted,
- http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/ Public domain map generator - quite good actually.
[edit] Antarctic
[edit] Australia
- http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/pictures.html Contains thousands of pictures taken by Australian photographers in various locations, all images which were published in Australia prior to 1955 are in the public domain.
[edit] Bangladesh
[edit] Botswana
[edit] Bulgaria
- http://www.pbase.com/ngruev/bulgaria -- Template:NGruev
- http://imagesfrombulgaria.com/ -- Template:Ifb-cc-by-2.5
- http://www.world66.com/europe/bulgaria
[edit] Canada
- http://www.imagescanada.ca Check rights!
- http://www.archives.ca
[edit] Cuba
[edit] Egypt
[edit] Finland
[edit] France
(may not work)
"Il est permis de copier et de diffuser des copies exactes de cette page ; une telle copie exacte devant surtout garder la notice originale de copyright, l'URL originale, la date de l'original, et la présente notice." (The copying and distribution of exact copies of this page is allowed, but exact copies must always keep the original copyright notice, the original URL, the date, and this notice [that is, the french text, not this translation])
[edit] Germany
[edit] Ghana
[edit] India
- http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/freegraphics.html - A non-profit site about India
- http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.
- http://www.shantishop.com/photos_of_india.html - free images of India sized for desktop wallpaper use. Users should credit them and link back to their URL. Images are free for noncommercial use under a creative commons license.
[edit] Iran
[edit] Ireland
[edit] Israel
[edit] Japan
[edit] Luxembourg
[edit] Mexico
[edit] Middle East
- http://mideastimage.com/ Various historical images of different subjects in the Middle east. Most of the images are in the public domain due to age, but check the age of individual images before uploading anyway, as there are exceptions.
- http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/700/770/779/historical/images_past.html Same status as above.
[edit] Panama
[edit] Puerto Rico
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Switzerland
- http://www.picswiss.ch/ (in German) - the photographer has given explicit permission to GFDL the online images, which are lower-res than the ones he sells - see de:Benutzer:Voyager/Picswiss for the relevant email (also in German)
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] USA
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present - from the Library of Congress.
[edit] New York
[edit] Vermont
[edit] Washington
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/pacificsearch.html (check to see if indiv. collections are public domain)
[edit] Uzbekistan
- http://www.uzland.uz/english/ "Copying, reproduction and use of any materials from UzLand are allowed with attribution to this site."
[edit] West Indies
[edit] Zambia
[edit] Zimbabwe
[edit] Various
- PhoozWiki A Wiki for Photographers to document local views/locations.
- http://pdfoto.com - Various locations
[edit] Art
Info: Since August 2008, Commons policy allows the uploading of faithful reproductions of 2D public domain works of art, regardless of any claim to copyright made under local law to the contrary.
- http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters many in the public domain, check catalogue for dates of works and artists.
- http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.
- http://www.pdfoto.com - Free for commercial use. 3D and Digital Art as well as public domain photos. All images are organized by category.
- National Gallery, UK
- National Portrait Gallery, UK
[edit] Logos and flags
- http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags&area=flags 376 (at last count) public-domain flags (many national, some regional) in SVG format.
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ CIA World Factbook
[edit] Sports
- http://www.igs.net/~bmitchell/Tennis/tennis.htm - Photo gallery of women's tennis players. Photos taken by bmitchell are specially marked and free to be used with credit and link back to the site.
- http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/ (see http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/2003/fotos03.php for the photos) - Site of a Dutch ladies' cycling tournament. All pictures copyright Frans Meijer, but may be copied provided the source is acknowledged.
[edit] U.S. postage stamps
While not technically public domain after 1978 (all stamps before that are in the public domain) the USPS has a liberal licensing policy regarding stamps. The United States Postal Service retains copyright to stamps under Title 17 of the United States Code. The Domestic Mail Manual, G013 Trademarks and Copyrights, states that while "The USPS secures copyrights in its philatelic designs and certain publications. The designs of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, stamped cards, aerogrammes, souvenir cards, and other philatelic items issued on or after January 1, 1978, are copyrighted by the USPS under title 17 USC." The USPS licenses certain copyrighted material to the public, however, thus:
- The use of illustrations of the designs covered by such copyrights is permitted:
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- a. In editorial matter in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, philatelic catalogs, and philatelic albums.
For the full document, see: http://pe.usps.gov/text/DMM/g013.htm.
An encyclopedia is considered a book, therefore, Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia, could be considered within this permitted use. However Wikipedia, is licensed under the GFDL, and as such "permitted use" for Wikipedia alone is not enough. It should also be "permitted use" for all derivative works.
[edit] Army
[edit] Government
[edit] General collections
- Public Domain Images - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
- Project Gutenberg 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands upon thousands of PD images to be had, with a wee bit of legwork and a modicum of serendipity.
- Beware that Project Gutenberg is a problematic source – many images are acceptable for Commons, but many are not. See Commons:Problematic sources#Project Gutenberg for details.
- Compendium of Illustrations in the Public Domain 300-page book. (requires a login account and password)
- Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). (website is in French)
- GeekPhilosopher.com Collection of public domain photos organized by category.
- GIMP Archive 32,000 Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
- GNU Art.
- Illustrations from the French Encyclopedie.
- Not dead, but not working either
- openphoto.net - http://www.openphoto.net/ -- Creative Commons not public domain licensed.
- PDfoto.com Public Domain photography and art website. Small but growing fast with over 25,000 images to be uploaded. All images are organized by category and free for commercial use.
- Pixeleye.com Pictures from the Montafon Valley - Collection of public domain photos organized by category.
- Random assortment of Public Domain images.
- PD Photo Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.
- Public domain stock photos Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
- Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images.
- If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI with http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/
- BurningWell.org are PD according to [2]
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Images of anarchists and anarchist symbols
- Public Domain Pagan Clipart
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumeweb/index.html - fashion plate archive
- http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/ Thousands of photographs from as early as 1860 taken by employees of the Union Pacific railroad
- http://www.vecteezy.com/ - not too much yet, and not all graphics are Free enough -- but the site encourages free licenses, allows filtering by license terms and is dedicated to vector graphics. There are several entries under BY, BY-SA, and GPL terms. All are vector graphics, but most are not SVG and would require conversion.
[edit] Flickr
See also Commons:Flickr images.
Free search:
Free tags:
- http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/tags/
- http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/tags/
Valuable streams:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/octal/collections/ - Middle East
- http://flickr.com/photos/fortes/collections/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/catsper/sets/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharif/collections/ - travel, art photo
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/sets/ - art
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodysworld1778/collections/ - Alberta and Mexican license plates
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/ - Iraq war
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyharris/sets/ - travel
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/xctmx/sets/ - art photo
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/indy138/sets/ - Japan, England
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/collections/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinish/sets/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/sets/ - art photo
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/payalvora/sets/ - Kashmir, art photo
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahron/sets/ - quality travel
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/vm2827/sets/ - 3000 photos
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssanyal/sets/ - 1000 photos
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahul3/sets/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/collections/ - 10,000 photos
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregor_y/collections/ - people, travel, outdoors, music
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/sets/ - quality travel
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/collections/ - birds, flora and fauna, travel
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/party0/collections/ - 7,500 Japanese photos
- http://flickr.com/photos/jamesdale10/sets/ - US Government Photographer, plenty of free quality images, over 20,000 photos
- http://flickr.com/photos/krisdecurtis/sets/ - art photo
- http://flickr.com/photos/ndanger/sets/
- http://flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/sets/ - travel
- http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ - over 4,000 photos
- http://flickr.com/photos/tenerife/collections/
- http://flickr.com/photos/le_korrigan/sets/ - mostly Asia
- http://flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/sets/
- http://flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/sets/
- http://flickr.com/photos/gustty/collections/
- http://flickr.com/photos/xemit/sets/72157603401141130/ - European architecture
- http://flickr.com/photos/debord/sets/ - Argentina, Peru
- http://flickr.com/photos/anantablamichhane/collections/
- http://flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/sets/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/viagallery/collections/ - technology
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertnelson/sets/ - technology
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/izarbeltza/collections/ - art, travel
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/suicidegirls/ - nudity
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/ - art
[edit] Uncategorized links
[edit] U.S. Government sites
- U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
- The National Science Foundation Image Library: Really great resource for all sorts of science imagery. Must fill out form to download, but most images are for public use as long as attributed. You can use {{NSFIL}} for copyright tagging (don't forget attribution).
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pictures
- More U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
- NOAA Photo Library
- United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
- Antarctic Photo Library
Other sites:
- http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm
- I find it useful to go to Google Image Search and type in "site:.gov", and then the thing I'm searching for. (Example) Most of the images returned will be public domain images hosted on U.S. government web sites (although it's important to check.)
[edit] Computer-generated public domain images
- Automatic public domain map generating program
- Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883 Note: should be cited in the Images page as: "[list full source]. Reproduced from the National Library of Canada's website (www.nlc-bnc.ca)."
[edit] Public domain image meta-resources
- http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/imagcoll.html
- http://www.archivalart.com/
- http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
- http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/ (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
- http://search.yahoo.com/cc (Yahoo! Creative Commons Search BETA) - try specifying "image" or "photo" and the object of the search as terms
- http://yotophoto.com/ A free (libre) image search engine
Dover Publications has many, many books of copyright-free illustrations. Search on "copyright-free", "clip art" or "Pictorial Archive". These are hard copy and would have to be scanned, but they cover everything. You have to buy the books or borrow them from the library; the art is free. Here are just a few examples:
- Plants: 2,400 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Vegetables
- Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of World-Famous Places: 109 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Pets: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Appliances and Electronics: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Portraits of Famous People: 121 Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Mammals Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Marine Animals: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Authentic Civil War Illustrations: 245 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Bird Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Flower Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Endangered Animals Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations: 294 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book 46 accurate illustrations copyright-free.
- Weapons and Armor, 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, more
- Transportation, 525 copyright-free illustrations include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many other vehicles.
- http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition