Image Resources

Other Open Source Resources

1. Getty's open content program provides high resolution images for free.
2. Penn State & State College Shutter Bugs is a flickr group for people in the State College area containing images of people, places, and things at Penn State.
3. The Public Domain Project makes Images, Film Clips, & Audio Files Free to Use. Be careful of all of the advertisement links on the site.
4. FreeDigitalPhotos.net has free stock photos and illustrations. All of the free images are small but high quality, produced by a community of professional stock photographers and digital illustrators. Larger versions are available for a fee.
5. Wellcome Images contains rich and unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
6. The New York Public Library provides free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of digital images. Images in the collection are either in the public domain or are owned by the library and can be downloaded and used for noncommercial purposes.
7. The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
8. MIT OpenCourseWare is a collection of charts, diagrams, pictures, and more from MIT courses available on Flickr.
9. Wikiversity is an open educational resource, including math formulas, diagrams, charts, etc.
10. Citizendium is a "wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real, verified names." Additional Wiki media.

11. Maps

    • MAPS ETC is a collection of over 5,000 different maps spanning many time periods.
    • The National Map is an interactive atlas that contains public domain maps from the National Map(USGS).
    • PASDA (Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access) is Pennsylvania's official public access open geospatial data portal, including maps of Pennsylvania and beyond.
    • pat Country Maps is a collection of county maps all in the public domain.
    • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas
    • The Illinois State Geological Survey provides a large collection of Illinois maps and images of geology and hazards.
    • The Rumsey Collection is an online database offering access to 67,000 maps from all over the globe, spanning five centuries of cartography. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st-century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World.

12. Science Topics

    • The NOAA Photo Library includes weather and space images, images of shores and coastal seas, and marine-specific images.
    • NASA Media Archive has images, audio, and video recordings related to space flight, astronomy, and aeronautics created by NASA.
    • The Science Creative Quarterly is a collection of scientific, textbook-like diagrams from microbiology biology.
    • The National Library of Medicine contains nearly 60,000 images including portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
    • The Smithsonian Science Service contains Images representing 20th-century scientific research in period periodicals.
    • NREL's Image Gallery, provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is a collection of photographs, scientific images, and videos related to renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.
    • The Africa Focus collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries, as well as a large number of difficult to find texts that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines.
    • The Bugwood Image Database is a resource covering invasive species, forestry, and agriculture integrated pest management, plants, insects, diseases, fungi, wildlife, fire, and other natural resource issues developed by the University of Georgia's Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.

13. History

    • U.S. History Images is a collection of almost 5,000 images concerning the American Civil War.
    • Free Historical Stock Photos is a collection of small low-resolution historical images. If you find an image you would like to use you can purchase a larger copy at Imageenvision.
    • Reusable Art is a collection of images rescued from old books, magazines, and Old Print Materials.
    • Emergence of Advertising in America is another collection from Duke University Libraries. It contains over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
    • Ad*Access is a collection of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955. This collection is part of the Duke University Libraries.
    • The Smithsonian Science Service contains Images representing 20th-century scientific research in period periodicals.

14. Art

    • The Art Renewal Center is a collection of more than 2,600 realist painters, many in the public domain. Check the catalog for dates of works and artists.
    • WebMuseum, Paris is a large collection of famous Artwork.

15. Photos

    • FreeImages is a huge gallery containing over 350,000 free quality stock photos.
    • everystockphoto is a search engine for free photos.
    • The Educational Technology Clearinghouse is a massive collection of clip art, stock photos, maps, etc. for educational uses.
    • PDPphoto.org is a database of thousands of great, royalty-free, public domain, and stock photos.
    • Unsplash is a collection of completely free photography.

16. Clip Art

    • WPClipart is an ever-growing collection of artwork for school kids and others that is free of copyright concerns as well as safe from inappropriate images.
    • Open Clip Art has nearly 50,000 clipart images available for free use.
    • Public Domain Clip Art is a HUGE collection of public domain clip art. The collection is FREE and NO REGISTRATION is required.
    • Pixabay is a collection of public-domain decorative images and clip art.
    • The Educational Technology Clearinghouse is a massive collection of clip art, stock photos, maps, etc. for educational uses.

Fee-Based Resources

• DALL-E: easy to access, requires a paid ChatGPT account.
• FotoSearch is an image search engine that allows one to "search over 700,000 images from over 50 stock photography, illustration, and video footage publishers." The collections are royalty-free, but not free of charge.
• Imageenvision is a collection of historical images ranging from architectural marvels to American Presidents to Circus advertisements.
• istockphoto is a collection of royalty-free images, illustrations, videos, and music clips.
• National Geographic Creative is a fee-based collection of images and video clips from the National Geographic.
• The Noun Project contains hundreds of simple black and white icons. There is a fee for the icons.
• TONL "TONL seeks to transform the idea of stock photography by displaying images of diverse people and their stories around the world."
• Vecteezy is a searchable collection of millions of high-quality, royalty-free photos and pictures. (Set the License Type to Free License to limit the search to free images.)