Web Sources for Images
- Art Project200,000+ high quality images from museums around the world.
- Flickr: Creative CommonsUser-created photos with Creative Commons licenses. Click here for more information about Creative Commons licenses.
- Harvard University Library Digital CollectionsDigitized archival images. Some are copyrighted; others are in the public domain.
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online CatalogHuge collection of historical prints and photographs. Most are in the public domain.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsPhotographs and digitized images. Especially strong in American and African-American culture. Some are in the public domain; others are copyrighted.
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)Rare books and manuscripts. From the University of Pennsylvania.
- Shared Shelf CommonsImages from libraries, archives and museums around the world. They are licensed for noncommercial, educational uses as long as they are kept behind a password (for instance, in an online course.)
- Wikimedia Commons"Mayflower" searches the Wikimedia Commons collection of public domain images. Advanced search allows you to specify file type, file size, etc. Click here to learn more about the Public Domain. Click here to learn more about the Creative Commons.
- World Press Photo Contest ArchiveArchives of photos by 1,372 photographers of 79 nationalities. These works are copyrighted.
- Yale University Library Digital CollectionsPhotographs and digitized archival images. Some are copyrighted; others are in the public domain.
