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- Europeana
- 2 million digital images reflecting European culture.
- Flickr Creative Commons Photos
- Large collection of user submitted photos usable under Creative Commons licensing
- Galaxy of Images
- From the Smithsonian Institute. Heavy on natural history, but also has art and design.
- Library of Congress
- Extensive collection of images on a wide variety of subjects. Check for copyright information as not all are in the public domain.
- Life Photo Archive
- Photographs from the Life archive from the Civil War to the 1970s.
- morgueFile
- Large collection of very high-quality, free digital images
- Pics4Learning
- A wide variety of subjects is covered. "The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection. The images may not be sold as an image collection or partial image collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities."
- Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library)
- "...A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923." You will need to contact NYPL about permitted use.
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative
- More than 13 million images in some seven hundred collections. Some images are copyright free. Each use should be individually evaluated.
- Travelers in the Middle East Archive
- "...focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- "Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online. They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video."
- Virginia Tech Imagebase
- Images used for research, teaching or private study may be reproduced without prior permission. Proper attribution of the source must be provided. Most of the images are copyrighted by Virginia Tech.
- Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture
- More than 300,000 map, art, photography and other images from various collections. Both free and fee-based collections are included. Images are for personal use only.
- Wellcome Images, 2000 Years of Human Culture
- "...themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science." May be used for educational purposes. Check their How do I? link for more information.
- Wikipedia Public Domain Images
- Provides access to images in a variety of topics. Although this site implies that all of the images found are freely available, 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.
- WorldImages
- The WorldImages database contains almost 75,000 images from the California State University IMAGE Project. "Conditions of Use: You are free to use these images for non-profit educational purposes, but we ask that you give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License."
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