Websites

The British Library added over 1 million images into the Public Domain stream of Flickr Commons. Added are maps, geological diagrams, illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more.

CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Indexes more than 300 million images.

 Photo-sharing site on Flickr where institutes such as The Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and various users can post and share images that have no known copyright restrictions.

Free Public-domain Historical Clip Art

Images sources from over 600 million books digitised by the Internet Archive organisation. The images range from 1500 to 1922, which means many images may be copyright-free.

A large collection of images that can be used without the creator's permission or with credit to the creator, even commercially.

Free, high resolution public-domain images. Over 6000 images, 3000 Photos, and 2500 Cliparts are available.

"Please note that your use of photographs and other content that the Smithsonian posts to this website is subject to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use."

Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography and has a growing library of over 1.5 million photos.

All media files on Wikimedia Commons can be used by anyone, including commercially.

Free open-access images from libraries, archives and museums around the world.

The collection from Library and Archives Canada covers a broad range of topics relevant to Canadians, and boasts over 400,000 images online.

"Rights assessment is your responsibility. As a publicly supported institution the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections."

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

Collections Online has information on over 500,000 artworks, objects and specimens from Te Papa’s collections, from dinosaur teeth to contemporary art, as well as information on people, places, topics, species, and research from the curators.

The New York Public Library has over 800,000 items digitised and available for searching, including photos, maps, prints, and more.

An extensive list of websites that feature digital images. Organized by subject discipline such as Costume & Theatre, Art History, Maps, World Images, and History.

The online archives from the U.S. National Archives includes a varied collection of online exhibits with a range of photo images.

The Wellcome Library's image collection has content in medical and social history, biomedical science, religion, literature, and more.

Part of the Internet Pathology Laboratory. Images along with text that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings.

Part of the Internet Pathology Laboratory. Many images at the gross and microscopic levels; includes trauma and forensic images.

Weill Cornell Medical Library's website contains many links to web images and a tutorial on finding images in print resources.

NASA makes available images from a number of photo collections including NASA Photography from the NASA Photography Office, Kennedy Multimedia Gallery, Space Images from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and photos from specific space missions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has a number of photo collections on specific agriculture-related topics, including crops, insects, plants and food.

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has a photo library reflecting the research the agency does. Images include anything related to weather, oceans, land, species, and geography.

The National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture makes available over 32,000 digital images from their archive, searchable by plant name, plant family, and photographer.

The Met has 400,000 art images available for browsing, with a well-indexed search option.

"The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. Currently, there are more than 87,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute available through the Open Content Program."

The Tate has over 70,000 digital images of artwork by more than 3,000 British and international artists, along with a growing collection of ephemera and archival material such as photographs, letters and artist sketchbooks.