Open Access Images
Reminder: Check copyright rules and regulations for each resource.
- American Memory Collection
- Multimedia, primary sources of American history.
- Agricultural Research Services Images
- Images of nature (animals, insects, food, etc.) and field research conducted.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Digital Library
- Photographs of animals and conservation efforts.
- U.S. National Park Service
- Photographs of the nationals parks.
- U.S. Antarctic Program Photo Library
- Photographs of the Antarctic
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Photo Library
- Images, audio and video resources
- Open Parks Network
- Cultural heritage objects and grey literature from the libraries, museums, and archives of the nation’s parks, historic sites, and other protected areas.
- U.S. Public Health Image Library
- Medical images related to public health.
- National Cancer Institute Image Library
- Medical images and materials.
- The Public Domain Review
- Images and other materials.
- OpenGLAM
- Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums from around the world that support open access collections.
- Ad*Access
- Database of advertising images for which the copyrights have expired.
- World Images
- Contains photos of art, historical and archeological artifacts, as well as some photos of government buildings.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Images from the Met's art collection.
- National Gallery of Art Images
- Photographs of the National Gallery of Art's collections.
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Yale's campus collections.
- Pixabay
- A wide variety of stock photos all in the public domain.
- TheStocks.im
- A compilation of links to different collections of photos from the public archives.
- Photos Public Domain
- A wide variety of stock photos in the public domain.
- openphoto.net
- Photographs of various subjects released by their creators into the public domain via CC0 licenses.
- Death to the Stock Photo
- Images of technology, people, and landscapes.
- Kave Wall Stock
- High resolution images and textures best suited as desktop or background images.
- Wikimedia Commons
- A variety of photographs taken by various independent artists in the public domain.
- Open ClipArt
- Variety of ClipArt images.
- Picdrone
- Collection of free public access images.