Commons:Free media resources/Photography

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There are a number of sources of freely licensed and 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 freely licensed and/or in the public domain: you are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Wikipedia.

See also

• Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

Search engines

• Openverse (formerly CC Search) allows you to search across many sources of freely licensed images and animations, including many, but not yet all, of the ones listed here. You can filter by licenses and types, including image type "photographs".

General collections

• freeforcommercialuse.net – FREE pictures to use unstock/non-stock images for your next commercial or personal project.
• 1MillionFreePictures.com – It is a repository of thousands of public domain pictures. No registration required. No fees collected. No annoying watermarks. No accounts needed. This repository of original amateur free pictures is perfect for bloggers, webmasters, students, or anyone looking for amateur free pictures for their projects.
• Flickr (free search) – 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 details on Flickr below.

• Crowdsource – 400,000 CC-BY pictures mostly from underrepresented countries.
• LookAndLearn.com – 1,000,000+ Free Historical Public Domain Images curated from Public Collections.
• Snappygoat.com – 13,990,108 Free Public Domain/CC0 Images from multiple sources. Single search for images from Wikipedia Commons, Pixabay, Flickr, British Library, NYPL and others. Full image downloads without login or restrictions. Includes a meme maker.
• Pixnio – A large collection of high resolution public domain images. Free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.
• Avopix.com – More than 56,000 absolutely free photos under Creative Commons CC0 (Public domain) – free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.
• Dreamstime CC0 Stock Photos – A large selection of over 2 million public domain (CC0) and free stock photos. Curated, model & non model-released photos.
• LibreShot.com – photos in high resolution for free use even commercialy (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain License).
• WPclipart – Public domain clip art and photographs, student-safe but expansive.
• Skitterphoto – Authentic public domain photos. Updated daily, all images creative commons CC0. No registration.
• 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). Does not apply to content produced after 23 February 2017.
• Archive.org compendium of Illustrations in the Public Domain - 300-page book.
• Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). (website is in French).
• BurningWell.org – PD according to terms.
• Gnu art – Media by GNU GPL licence.
• 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.

• Public Domain Images – Hundreds of free images for personal and commercial use.
• LIFE images hosted by Google – Huge collection under various copyright status. Many public domain ones, although with false copyright claims.
• Logodesignweb.com: Public Domain Stock Photos – Not a big collection, but valuable.
• 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
• PDimages.com – Random assortment of Public Domain images.
• PublicDomainArchive.com – High quality public domain images – free for private and commercial use. All images licensed under CC0 license.
• Picdrome is a free pictures gallery licensed with Creative Commons.
• publicdomainpictures.net – a collection of over 83,000 free images as of August 2014.
• Good Free Photos – Hundreds of photos of state parks, tetures, plants, and more
• Pickupimage.com – Large collection of of high quality free stock photos and public domain pictures.
• Topers Photos – Toper's Photos is a collection of photos taken by the creator from his trips around the United States as well as from outside the US. All photos in this collection are released into public domain so readers may use these photos for personal or commercial purpose. Photos are classified according to subject such as Animals, Plants, People, Places, Statues, etc,. More pictures are added everyday so this collection is gradually growing in number. Photos are high resolution so you will find high quality images in this collection. All photos herein are dedicated into the public domain.
• cc0.photo – A growing collection of free CC0/PD photos.
• Devostock.com - Free and public domain images collected from all around the world.
• PhotostockEditor - Free High-Resolution Images For Personal & Commercial Use. New Pictures added Weekly.
• DreamyPixel - A collection of free high-resolution images for personal and commercial use. Three new images added weekly.
• Rawpixel – Over 7,000 high-resolution public domain illustrations as well as some CC0 photographs.
• Black White Pictures – Public Domain Black and White Pictures
• Skuawk – Curated public domain photos
• ClipartSpy: Searchable clipart images in the public domain

Objects

Aeroplanes

• https://www.omao.noaa.gov/about/news-media/images
• https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Photos.aspx
• http://www.af.mil/photos/

Cycles

• http://www.cyclestreets.net/photos/categories/ (includes cycling infrastructure)

Food

• http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=OC_PHOTOGRAPHY (archived old page)

Furniture

• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12254 (now on Category:Illustrated History of Furniture)

Ships

• http://www.omao.noaa.gov/find/media/images
• https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Photo-Gallery/

Animals and plants

• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?photo_license=CC-BY-SA Crowdsourced plants and animals photos. CC-BY-SA, CC0 and less permissive licenses. Photos are compressed to ~3MP size. Use {{INaturalistreview}}.

Animals

• https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/photos/photos-animals/
• http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=OC_PHOTOGRAPHY (archived old page)
• https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/
• https://npgallery.nps.gov/
• https//www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html
• https://www.oldbookart.com/five-hundred-fascinating-animal-stories/ Five Hundred Fascinating Animal Stories (scanned images)
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/subjects/animals/
• http://www.reusableart.com/animals

Mammals

• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=16 Lydekker - Carnivora - Cats, Civets, and Mungooses (scanned images)
• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=15 Lydekker - Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata (scanned images)
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/titles/the-sportsmans-repository/ The sportsman's repository (scanned images)

Birds

• 1905 paintings http://www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/naumann.htm#register
• Online copy of "Citizen Bird" containing drawings of about a hundred bird species
• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=10 Louis P. Graham: Biggle Poultry Book (scanned images)
• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=19 Birds of New York - J. W. Hill, James De Kay (scanned images)
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/titles/a-history-of-british-birds/ A history of British birds (scanned images)

Fish

• 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
• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=1 Every Variety of Fish, or, Uozukushi (scanned images)

Insects

• https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/photos/photos-insects/
• Entomart - insects (use {{Attribution Entomart}})
• InsectImages.org - insects
• https://www.oldbookart.com/?type_0=gallery&album_gallery_id_0=6 European butterflies (scanned images)
• http://www.reusableart.com/insects

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.ivorybill.com/ Same as above, this page is a section of it.
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/titles/terre-avant-deluge/ Illustrations from La terre avant le déluge (scanned images)

Plants

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/News//docs.htm?docid=24127
• http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html
• http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/inneh.html
• http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/index.html
• Biolib A collection of 68395 scanned pages from 290 books, some of them with expired copyrights.
• http://alienplantsbelgium.be/ As stated on the website "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike CC BY-SA Licence." {{Cc-by-sa-3.0}}
• The USDA PLANTS database
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/subjects/plants
• https://www.plantnet.org/ Compressed low resolution photos. Automatic plant identification website. Freely licensed crowdsourced photos.

Crops

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html

Fruits/Vegetables

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/Docs.htm?docid=24140

Mushrooms

• https://mushroomobserver.org/

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. (Commons:Deletion requests/Images from Darwin Online)
• PubMed Central - The "open access subset" contains images that have compatible licenses. For example, this search finds open access articles related to "cat".

Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc)

• https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/earthfromspace/ Earth from Space
• http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/ USGS Earth Science Photo Library Archive
• https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/subjects/landscapes-places

Medicine

• http://art-bin.com/art/medhistorypix/omedicalimages.html Historical anatomical drawings
• Historical Anatomies on the Web - historical anatomical drawings (courtesy National Institutes of Health)
• Dream Anatomy gallery
• CDC Public Health Image Library Material from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Note: some few pictures are still copyrighted)

Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight

• https://hubblesite.org/ STScI Publication of public domain photography taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (copyright notice)
• https://flickr.com/photos/nasacommons Great Images in NASA library of images.
• http://spitzer.caltech.edu/images Gallery for the Spitzer Space Telescope (used to discover Sedna) at JPL
• http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ NASA planetary image catalog
• http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ NASA image gallery
• 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

US National Parks

• https://npgallery.nps.gov National Park Service Digital Asset Management System
• https://nps.gov/nature/photosmultimedia.htm
• https://nps.gov/bibe/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

Weather

• http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/torscans.htm NOAA pictures of tornadoes

Chemistry

• https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/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/

History

Historical images

• Library of Congress Digital Collections See also: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and Collection and Subject Guides.
• Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at Ex-Classics Web Site.
• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today." See also Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States.
• US History Images - Hundreds of historical photos and drawings of the United States free for education, commercial, and personal use.
• The Finnish Heritage Agency 350,000 historical images. Mostly CC BY 4.0. License listed with each image, and search can be filtered by license.

Specific periods

• World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies
• Child Labor in america 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine
• SA-kuva Finnish archive of 160,000 photographs from World War II. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.

People

• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/dag/ - more than 700 Daguerreotypes 1839 - 1864 (mostly portraits)
• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/van/ Creative Americans 1932 - 1964, photographs by Carl Van Vechten; 1400 public domain portrait photos
• https://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.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. Not valid for works produced after 23 February 2017, see {{Agência Brasil}}
• http://www.generalsandbrevets.com - portraits of all the generals (+1,000) of the American Civil War.
• The Oberwolfach Photo Collection. Mathematicians, lots of them. All images tagged with Copyright:MFO are under {{Cc-by-sa-2.0-de}}.
• The IMF releases photos of IMF/Worldbank meetings with the byline These photographs are in the public domain. Commons have a number of their images with {{PD-imf.org}}. Provide a weblink to the gallery with the PD byline.
• The Munich Security Conference (MSC respectively SiKo in german) releases images under a cc-by-3.0 license, see Category:Images from the Munich Security Conference and the corresponding license {{MSC}}. All images are transferred to Commons.
• The World Economic Forum releases images on Flickr, see Category:Images from the World Economic Forum and the license template {{WEF}}

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.

Movies

• https://www.archive.org/movies/ Historical movies
  • Check rights before using! The Prelinger Archives are clear for reuse, but the other movie collections may not be.
• http://publicdomainmovie.net/ Public Domain Movies

Locations

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

Maps

• https://www.loc.gov/maps/collections/ Library of Congress digital map archive 1500-2002 (some maps under copyright)
• https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/nhs_maps/ U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration maps of the National Highway System (NHS)
• https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html PCL Map Collection -- most maps copyrighted,

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.
• http://freeaussiestock.com Creative Commons photos of Australia

Botswana

• https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Bulgaria

• http://www.pbase.com/ngruev/bulgaria -- Template:NGruev
• http://imagesfrombulgaria.com/ -- Template:Ifb-cc-by-2.5

Brasil

• Agência Brasil -- Template:Agência Brasil
• Agência de Notícias do Acre on Flickr (also http://www.agencia.ac.gov.br/: cc-by-sa-2.5-br)
• Governo da Bahia on Flickr
• Governo de Minas Gerais on Flickr
• Prefeitura de Olinda on Flickr

Canada

• http://www.imagescanada.ca Check rights!
• http://www.archives.ca

Czech Republic

• Peplum.cz – photos from Roztoky parish – architecture, people, clergy, liturgy… (CC-BY-SA)
• Bubenic.cz – personal photos – landscape, architecture, people, nature, liturgy… (CC-BY-SA)

Finland

• https://www.helsinkikuvia.fi/ in Category:Photos from Helsinki City Museum

Germany

Some chapters of German parties, federal, state and communal level, or politicians release photos under free licenses on Flickr:

Bündnis90/Die Grünen

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/buendnisgruenen/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruene_bawue/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruene-thueringen/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruenenrw/

SPD

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/spd-sh/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/spdnds/

Die Linke

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_schaefer/ (Paul Schaefer, MdB)
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/dielinke-sachsen/

Piratenpartei

• http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Kategorie:Bilder (CC BY-SA 3.0 logos etc.)
• http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Spezial:Dateien (people, PDFs and more, but ? some without license details)

Iran

• https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse99/iranimages.html

Israel

• http://www.pikiwiki.org.il

Japan

• the private PUBLIC DOMAIN DATA LIBRARY

México

• The Detroit Publishing Company Collection (search results for "Mexico")

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.

Panama

• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Portugal

Normally all images are declared as protected by Copyright. It will be necessary to see case by case which ones are already in the public domain or with expired Copyright (e.g. old photographs and reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works).

• https://antt.dglab.gov.pt/ - Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
• https://bndigital.bnportugal.gov.pt/ - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
• http://www.biblartepac.gulbenkian.pt/ Biblioteca de Arte - Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/ Biblioteca de Arte - Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian - Flickr
• https://digitarq.cpf.arquivos.pt/ Centro Portugues de Fotografia
• http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/ - Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa
• http://www.matrizpix.dgpc.pt/matrizpix/home.aspx - MatrizPix Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação
• http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/matriznet/home.aspx - MatrizNet Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação

Puerto Rico

• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Russia

• Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation) - All materials (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported), see template on Wikimedia Commons and letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials.
• volganet.ru (official website of the Governor of Volgograd Oblast) - All materials (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported) and GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3, see template on Wikimedia Commons and letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary allowing use of volganet.ru materials.
• SamaraSuper.ru – photos of old Samara city (architecture, people, streets).

South Africa

• https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

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 Commons:Picswiss/Permission for the relevant email (also in German)

Thailand

• Official Site of The Prime Minister of Thailand on Flickr (cc-by-2.0)

United Kingdom

• Geograph Britain and Ireland - Pictures of places in the UK, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
• Britain:Photoeverywhere.co.uk collection of UK Creative Commons images (cc-by-2.5)
• British Listed Buildings - Listed buildings in the UK. Pictures are licenced Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales (cc-by-2.0)

United States

• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present - from the Library of Congress.
• http://www.empirestateroads.com/maps/

West Indies

• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Zambia

• https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Zimbabwe

• https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

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.

• National Gallery, UK

Logos and flags

• https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ CIA World Factbook

Military

• https://flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/
• https://www.army.mil/photos
• https://www.dvidshub.net/
• Navy History

Miscellaneous

• Public Domain Pagan Clipart
• Public Domain Vectors
• Pond5 - host a large public domain collection of 80.000+ HD and 4K files available for research and free consumption, including images, footages and sounds.

Flickr

See also: Commons:Flickr files

Free search:

• https://www.flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv&q=

Free tags:

• https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/tags/
• https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/tags/

Institutions

• https://www.flickr.com/commons/

• Australia - Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
• Australia - Australian War Memorial collection
• Australia - National Library of Australia Commons
• Australia - Powerhouse Museum Collection, over 1,000 photos
• Australia - State Library of New South Wales collection, over 1,000 photos
• Australia - State Library of Queensland, Australia, over 1,000 photos
• Canada - Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons
• Canada - Musée McCord Museum
• Denmark - The Royal Library, Denmark
• France - Bibliothèque de Toulouse, over 3,000 photos
• Iceland - Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur / Reykjavík Museum of Photography
• Ireland - National Library of Ireland on The Commons
• Netherlands - Nationaal Archief, over 1,000 photos
• New Zeland - National Library NZ on The Commons
• Norway - Bergen Public Library
• Norway - Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane
• Norway - Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway), over 1,000 photos
• Poland - Museum of History of Photography
• Portugal - Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, over 8,000 photos
• Sweden - Stockholm Transport Museum Commons
• Sweden - Swedish National Heritage Board
• United Kingdom - IWM Collections (Imperial War Museum)
• United Kingdom - LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales)
• United Kingdom - LSE Library (London School of Economics and Political Science), over 1,000 photos
• United Kingdom - Museum of Hartlepool
• United Kingdom - The National Archives UK, over 6,000 photos
• United Kingdom - National Galleries of Scotland Commons
• United Kingdom - National Library of Scotland, over 2,000 photos
• United Kingdom - National Maritime Museum
• United Kingdom - National Media Museum
• United Kingdom - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
• USA - Brooklyn Museum, over 5,000 photos
• USA - Center for Jewish History, NYC (New York City)
• USA - Cornell University Library, over 3,000 photos
• USA - DC Public Library Commons (District of Columbia)
• USA - The Field Museum Library, over 1,000 photos
• USA - George Eastman House, over 1,000 photos
• USA - Getty Research Institute
• USA - Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
• USA - JWA Commons (Jewish Women’s Archive)
• USA - Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos (New Hampshire), over 1,000 photos
• USA - The Library of Congress, over 16,000 photos
• USA - The Library of Virginia
• USA - Museum of Photographic Arts Collections
• USA - NASA on The Commons
• USA - New York Public Library, over 2,000 photos
• USA - nha.library (Nantucket Historical Association)
• USA - OSU Special Collections & Archives (Oregon State University), over 2,000 photos
• USA - San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, over 120,000 photos
• USA - Smithsonian Institution, over 1,000 photos
• USA - SMU Central University Libraries (Southern Methodist University), over 1,000 photos
• USA - State Library and Archives of Florida, over 1,000 photos
• USA - Texas State Archives
• USA - The U.S. National Archives, over 10,000 photos
• USA - UA Archives | Upper Arlington History
• USA - UW Digital Collections (University of Washington)
• USA - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Other

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ - over 25,000 photos by Frederick FN Noronha. We've received a release via OTRS (Ticket:2010031410022872) from Frederick Noronha permitting the importing to Commons of any images placed there on or before 31 March 2010 under the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. He does not wish to place this release on the images themselves or the website, but is pleased to permit Commons users to import what they please under those terms.
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/octal/collections/ - Middle East
• https://flickr.com/photos/fortes/collections/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/catsper/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharif/collections/ - travel, art photo
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/sets/ - art
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/woodysworld1778/collections/ - Alberta and Mexican license plates
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/ - Iraq war
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyharris/sets/ - travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/xctmx/sets/ - art photo
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/indy138/sets/ - Japan, England
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/collections/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinish/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/sets/ - art photo
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/payalvora/sets/ - Kashmir, art photo
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahron/sets/ - quality travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/vm2827/sets/ - 3000 photos
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/ssanyal/sets/ - 1000 photos
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/rahul3/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/collections/ - 10,000 photos
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregor_y/collections/ - people, travel, outdoors, music
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/sets/ - quality travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/collections/ - birds, flora and fauna, travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/party0/collections/ - 7,500 Japanese photos
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesdale10/sets/ - US Government Photographer, plenty of free quality images, over 20,000 photos
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/krisdecurtis/sets/ - art photo
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/ndanger/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/sets/ - travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/tenerife/collections/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/le_korrigan/sets/ - mostly Asia
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/gustty/collections/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/xemit/sets/72157603401141130/ - European architecture
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/debord/sets/ - Argentina, Peru
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/anantablamichhane/collections/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/viagallery/collections/ - technology
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertnelson/sets/ - technology
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/izarbeltza/collections/ - art, travel
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/suicidegirls/ - nudity
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/ - art
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/lge/ - LG Group official account under CC-BY: products, advertisements, Korean and international celebrities

Uncategorized links

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: Only images credited to the NSF and not a third party
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
• NOAA 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.)

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)."

Public domain image meta-resources

• Yahoo! Image Search. On the search results page, set the license filter to "Public Domain".
• 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