Public Domain Images (Mostly!) for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages
In the spirit of the open source movement, new copyright-friendly (and some copyleft) archives are emerging, removing many of the legal and ethical thorns to image use in student production. In addition, a number of government image archives provide their archives with limited restrictions.
Most of the images in these collections include images in the public domain. Though students may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, they should cite these images unless otherwise notified! Important: Any copyright notices on these pages, should be read carefully!
US Government Graphics and Photos http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
Wikipedia Free Images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_images
Yotophoto http://yotophoto.com/
Common Content http://commoncontent.org/
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/find/
Open Photo Project http://openphoto.net/
Pics4Learning http://pics.tech4learning.com/
Wise Gorilla Educational Clip Art http://www.wisegorilla.com
PD Photo http://pdphoto.org/
America From the Great Depression to World War II: FSA/OWI 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
American Memory Collection: Library of Congress--click on "Photos and Prints" and check the "Copyright and Restrictions" section for each collection
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
American Memory Maps Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Art Images for College Teaching http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
Centre for Bioscience ImageBank http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
Department of Agriculture Image Gallery http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
Department of the Interior Photo Resources Library http://www.doi.gov/oirm/photolib/
FreeFoto.com http://www.freefoto.com/
Free Photo 1 http://www.freephoto1.com/
Graphic Maps.com http://www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm
Great Images in NASA (GRIN) http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
Images of American Political History http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/
Internet Moving Images Archive (read Conditions of Use) http://www.archive.org/movies/
Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
(Please read copyright info on http://www.metmuseum.org/copyright.htm)
NARA's (National Archives and Records Administration) NAIL Search http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=images.txt&id=demo&pass=&OK=OK
NASA Image Exchange http://nix.nasa.gov/
NASA Multimedia Gallery http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html
NASA Photo Archive http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html
NASA's Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
National Health Museum (AccessExcellence) http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/
National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library) http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Open Clip Art Library http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate
Public Health Image Gallery http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp
Pics4Learning (A great collection of donated photos!) http://pics4learning.com/
Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/home.html
Science Images http://www.ase.org.uk/cgi-bin/imageFolio/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Science
Science Images (Earth Zone) http://www.ase.org.uk/cgi-bin/imageFolio/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Earth_Zone
Selected Civil War Photographs http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
Training Reference: Images for Learning Materials http://www.trainingreference.co.uk/free_pictures/index.html
US Air Force Link: Photos and Art http://www.af.mil/photos/
US Fish and Wildlife Services Images http://pictures.fws.gov/
US Geological Service Photographic Library http://www.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/photographic-library/photographic-library.html
US Navy Images http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm
USDA Historical Photos http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm
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