 | This started out as a copy of the master wikipedia page at Meta and its entries should be kept as identical as possible. Please do not make changes to just this copy. If you change both copies please make the changes in the same place. | Public domain image resources is a copy of the master wikipedia page at Meta, which lists 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. Please read the policy on image use and etiquette at: Wikipedia:Image use policy. See also: [edit] Wikimedia operated Wikimedia Commons hosts only freely licensed images, sound files, and other media. With over 3.5 million uploaded files (Nov 2008) it is the largest free images only repository and it contains many public domain images. Media on commons can be used automatically on all Wikimedia projects just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects.
[edit] History [edit] Historical images - http://www.acliparthistory.com - Public Domain images of the History of the World. Also Natural History and Fancy letters suitable for school projects
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site (Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them!)
- 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://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Collection images scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable. Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
- http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.
- http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword.
- http://digitalgallery.nypl.org New York Public Library. Over 500,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.
- http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Images scanned from old books. States that images on the site are the works of artists who "...have been dead for over seventy years, which makes them part of the public domain in many countries". Searchable by keywords.
- 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.
- "The Secret Museum of Mankind" - collection of anthropological photographs published in a 1935 book without copyright. Scanned and released under a CC-NC license, but images should be public domain, at least in the US, since they are faithful reproductions of PD images. (Warning: strong 1930's racist P.O.V.)
[edit] Specific periods [edit] Visual arts Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored. [edit] Old photographs, photographers and their subjects - http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/ - Articles providing old photographs with sourced research as to their origins and history.
- Vintage Pixels A collaborative database of found vintage photos. Free for use in amateur and commercial projects.
[edit] Logos and flags [edit] Postage stamps [edit] Culture [edit] Religion [edit] Christianity [edit] General collections - Public-Domain-Photos.com
- Ars Publik - A great collection of public domain images from around the web, hand-selected for use in web and graphic design.
- Public Domain Cliparts Over 8000 public domain cliparts.
- Photos8.com
- BestPhotos.us Search millions of public domain photos or browse the best
- 4FreePhotos.com
- Web Photo Mart A large collection of Public Domain, GNU, Creative Commons & custom licensed stock photos and clip art.
- Public Domain Pictures A large collection of high quality pictures for free. Possibility to contact the authors for original files. Option to upload your own pictures and promote your portfolio
- Google images hosts a large repository of LIFE images, Time claims blanket copyright to everything but this is simply untrue. (see here and also see here) Anything more than 120 years old (ie - before 1889) is generally safe. (exception is if the original author died less than 75 years ago--45 years after these PD pictures have been taken--, the author lived in a state with Common_law_copyright, and the name of the author is know---and in that case Time itself is most likely in copyright violation.) You must remove the watermark if you use the larger image.
- http://ushistoryimages.com/ - A growing collection of free images related to United States history.
- http://www.freephotos.lu/ Free public domain photos. For private and commercial use.
- 4 Free Textures High quality textures under public domain.
- RepublicDomain.com is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers.
- Public Domain Photos - Free for commercial redistribution and alteration - Moka Gallery - All photo from this site is 100% free for use (old domain: moka.t2i.info) !
- Scans of art from pre-1922 books and various photos, free for any use
- Easy Stock Photos - Royalty free stock photos, pictures, images and information in the public domain - Collection of public domain photos organized by category in image galleries.
- Reusable Art Public Domain Images - An ever-growing collection of vintage drawings, illustrations and photographs from books, magazines and other printed materials. Original publication information is included with each image for copyright verification. All images meet or exceed the Berne Convention standard for a creative work to be in the public domain.
- http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
- http://www.wpclipart.com - Public Domain clipart optimized for use in word processors. Browsable via site treeview and thumbnail pages. Complete collection also downloadable from ibiblio.
- http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/ - Project Gutenberg: 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands of PD images available.
- http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ - GIMP Archive: 32,000+ Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
- http://www.openclipart.org/ - This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
- http://www.clker.com/ - Easy to search public domain images, directly usable in openoffice.org
- http://opendomain.blogspot.com/ - public domain images from various sources in one-a-day blog format.
- http://pdphoto.org/ - 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.
- http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/ - Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
- http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm - 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/
[edit] Computer-generated public domain images [edit] Public domain image meta-resources [edit] Uncategorized links [edit] U.S. Government sites [edit] Search Engines - Google advanced search can search for free licensed or PD works
- everystockphoto.com - Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.
- PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)
- Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed.
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