Finding and Using Image Resources

Roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.

Over 65,000 images focusing on Muslim cultures and civilizations. Registration is required, but free.

Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.

Images of works from their permanent collection. The images may be used in unaltered form for non-commercial educational purposes, as long as the artist and museum website address are cited.

Images of over 300,000 pieces from their collection are available on their website. Provided the source is cited, personal and educational use (as defined by fair use in US copyright law) is permitted. Any reproduction of text or images from this site in a publication (with the exception of news reporting and commentary) is not permitted.

Nearly 30,000 images of works from their collection are available online. The images may be used in unaltered form for non-commercial educational purposes, as long as the artist and museum website address are cited.

The National Gallery offers their online collection, which includes videos, podcasts, and images, for personal, educational, and non-commercial uses only.

This project of University of Michigan contains high resolution scans of late 19th to early 20th century illustrations of mostly architecture and some art.

Images from the Library of Congress collections

Explore 894,620 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies such as the U.S. Records and Archives Administration and NASA. Although the government agency videos were produced with public funds and are freely available from the Archives, no copyright clearance has been obtained for audio or video elements in these productions. Researchers are encouraged to use the data under fair use for research purposes.

CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

Search for photos on Flickr that have one of the CC licenses.

Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly. All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.

Aggregates photos from a variety of photographers around the world. Search and browse free, high-resolution photos.