Commons:Free media resources/Photography

There are a number of sources of freely licensed and 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 freely licensed and/or in the public domain: you are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Wikipedia.

Sources[edit]

Sources for media

W:Wikipedia:Research resources - Books and Web Sites (for reference, not direct copying)
W:Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources
W:Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources - Misc. resources
w:Wikipedia:Public domain resources
W:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
W:Wikipedia:Maps

General collections[edit]

Avopix.com - More than 19 000 absolutely free photos under Creative Commons CC0 (Public domain) - free for personal and commercial use.
Lensicle.com all photos have the CC0 license, a different website to many of the others in that it has multiple exporting options, including the ability to download the image at the exact dimensions you want it to be.
AllTheFreeStock.com public domain photos (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain License).
LibreShot.com photos in high resolution for free use even commercialy (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain License).
Free photos, pictures and images - All real free images, photos and pictures, each day new ones are added
Freepik - Freemium platform offering around 1,400,000 high quality, useful and versatile vector illustrations to more than 15 million users.
Pixabay - About 500,000 public domain photos and cliparts released under Creative Commons CC0 - free for private and commercial use.
Snappygoat.com - 12,748,290 Free Public Domain/CC0 Images from multiple sources.
WPclipart - Public domain clip art and photographs, student-safe but expansive.
Skitterphoto - Authentic public domain photos. Updated daily, all images creative commons CC0. No registration.
23hq.com is a social photo-sharing site, which allows users to select Creative Commons licenses and search for specific licensed media on the search-page.
DrStockPhoto - Thousands of high quality stock photos.
500px allows user-uploaded photos under Creative Commons licenses, including by and by-sa. Focus on "artistic" photography; so far very little cc content.
Agência Brasil official agency of the Brasilian government, has pictures of Brasilian officials, including on official trips and meeting foreign dignitaries (use {{{Agência Brasil|photo number}}} template)
Archive.org compendium of Illustrations in the Public Domain 300-page book.
Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). (website is in French).
BurningWell.org - PD according to terms.
Flickr (free search) - Flickr is a big photo sharing website. It has many pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. (Search both)

Beware that Flickr is a problematic source – many images are acceptable, but many are not. See details on Flickr below.
Free Online Pictures various pictures, especially of France, under a "no rights reserved" license (use {{FOLP|path}} template)
free-images.cc curated list of images under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license.
Geolocation.ws - large collection (more than 15,000,000 photos) geotagged of Creative Commons and PD photos posted on Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, Panoramio and Picasa Web Albums searchable by location on the map, source website and license type.
GIMP Archive 32,000 Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
Gnu art - Media by GNU GPL licence.
Project Gutenberg 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands upon thousands of PD images to be had, with a wee bit of legwork and a modicum of serendipity.

Beware that Project Gutenberg is a problematic source – many images are acceptable for Commons, but many are not. See Commons:Problematic sources#Project Gutenberg for details.
Public Domain Images - Hundreds of free images for personal and commercial use.
LIFE images hosted by Google - Huge collection under various copyright status. Many public domain ones, although with false copyright claims.
Logodesignweb.com: Public Domain Stock Photos - Not a big collection, but valuable.
OpenCage's Photo Library - various pictures, especially of Japan. All pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License in Japanese.
Openclipart - Public domain clip art.
OpenPhoto.net - fairly random collection, looks like aiming to be a "stock photography" site. Be sure to check the license carefully as they also have NC/ND images! Free registration required to download full-res images (login:commons pw:wikimedia)
Panoramio is a photo-hosting site with emphasis on geotagged content, which allows users to select Creative Commons licenses, but doesn't have a search interface for CC-media
PDphoto.org - Free Public Domain Photo Database.
PDimages.com - Random assortment of Public Domain images].
Photosynth -many of the Photosynths are under Creative Commons licenses. I don't see any way of downloading the original photos from the synth, so you'll have to contact the uploader.
Photistoric showcases high-resolution vintage photographs & vintage prints found in the worldwide public domain - Updated daily, CC0, no registration.
PublicDomainArchive.com - High quality public domain images - free for private and commercial use. All images licensed under CC0 license.
Picdrome is a free pictures gallery licensed with Creative Commons.
freefilehunt.com - Hand picked search engine for free images, searchable by license type. Also includes other free files for designers such as png images, graphics, vectors, themes, fonts, and mock-ups.
PicFindr - A "rich internet app" image search that finds free-to-use-commercially stock photography on other websites. Search by tag/keyword and usage restriction (none,permission,attribution etc..) NOT free - paid subscription use only.
SRU Faculty - Scanned and colorized 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/

Trashwiki - many free images (under various licenses) about dumpster diving and freeganism.
Yotophoto - Search engine for free licenced photos. (Link is "under construction" as of 2009-02-04.)
publicdomainpictures.net - a collection of over 83000 free images as of August 2014.
Free Stock Images - many unique photos not found on other sites. All are free to use, some are public domain others CC2.0.
Freetems - New site with public domain / CC0 photos.
Good Free Photos -- Hundreds of photos of state parks, tetures, plants, and more
Pickupimage.com - Large collection of of high quality free stock photos and public domain pictures.
freeimages.red Database for Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 licensed Photos.
1 Million Free Pictures All pictures covering various topics are released into public domain. These pictures are originally created by the owner therefore these pictures can be used for personal and commercial use.
Topers Photos Toper's Photos is a collection of photos taken by the creator from his trips around the United States as well as from outside the US. All photos in this collection are released into public domain so readers may use these photos for personal or commercial purpose. Photos are classified according to subject such as Animals, Plants, People, Places, Statues, etc,. More pictures are added everyday so this collection is gradually growing in number. Photos are high resolution so you will find high quality images in this collection. All photos herein are dedicated into the public domain.
PLiXS - free images - Thousands of free public domain (CC0) images.
cc0.photo - A growing collection of free CC0/PD photos.
Freejpg Free Image Bank for Commercial and Editorial Use.
PhotostockEditor Free High-Resolution Images For Personal & Commercial Use. New Pictures added Weekly.
DreamyPixel A collection of free high-resolution images for personal and commercial use. Three new images added weekly.
Hola Wallpaper - Hd wallpapers for mobile and desktop. More than 100 000 absolutely free photos under Creative Commons CC0 (Public domain) - free for personal and commercial use.
Realgraphy.org - Hundreds of high-resolution storytelling photos dedicated into the public domain. Download as wallpaper, use on website or print under CC0 license.

Objects[edit]

Aeroplanes[edit]

The Louvre
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
Web Gallery of Art
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/index.jsp?lang=en
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (in Swedish only)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/
http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ - The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is an American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institution. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care. Note also, that while this is a wonderful source of information, the images are copyrighted by the Smithsonian and the license is unacceptable because it does not permit commercial use.

Satellites[edit]

Ships[edit]

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ships/index.html U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Photo Library)
http://www.navy.mil/view_photos_top.asp

Animals and plants[edit]

Animals[edit]

Birds[edit]

1905 paintings http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/regengl.htm.
Online copy of "Citizen Bird" containing drawings of about a hundred bird species (I have a paper copy, from which I can make nicer quality scans upon request. --Brion)
Online copy of Fifty Birds of Town and City, published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Fish[edit]

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/index.html
http://images.fws.gov/
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/photos.html lineart drawings of a bunch of fish; also collections of photos of historical fisheries, research activities and NOAA

Insects[edit]

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
Entomart - insects (use {{attribution Entomart}})
InsectImages.org - insects

Extinct animals[edit]

http://www.copyrightexpired.com/earlyimage/index.html All images were published before 1923, so they are in the public domain in the US.
http://www.50birds.com/Default.htm All images were published before 1923, so they are in the public domain in the US.
http://www.ivorybill.com/ Same as above, this page is a section of it.

Plants[edit]

http://www.ars.usda.gov/News//docs.htm?docid=24127
http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/inneh.html
http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/index.html
University of Leuven, Belgium - Images free to use for non-commercial use.
Biolib A collection of 68395 scanned pages from 290 books, some of them with expired copyrights.
http://alienplantsbelgium.be/ As stated on http://alienplantsbelgium.be/ "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike CC BY-SA Licence." {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}

Crops[edit]

Fruits/Vegetables[edit]

http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/Docs.htm?docid=24140

Protists[edit]

http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Science_Internet/TI_2001E/index.html

Nature/Science[edit]

http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/index.shtml Many scientific images, a lot of them are in the public domain due to age.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Everything is PD old. (Commons:Deletion requests/Images from Darwin Online)
PubMed Central - The "open access subset" contains images that have compatible licenses. For example, this search finds open access articles related to "cat".

Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc)[edit]

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/land.htm Earth from Space
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/ USGS Earth Science Photo Library Archive
http://gaderinge.com/landscape-images/ Landscape Images - Public domain landscape photography images of mountains, deserts, beaches and waterscapes. All high quality free images from Gaderinge.com
Davalign PDI - A collection of public domain landscape photographs taken in the United States.

Medicine[edit]

http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Numerous anatomy drawings from Gray's Anatomy
http://www.autopsydb.org/iadbimag.htm Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR) Image Archive
http://www.autopsydb.org/abpath.htm Public domain cytology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Borkowski.
http://www.autopsydb.org/dermpath.htm Public domain dermatopathology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Grace F. Kao.
http://art-bin.com/art/medhistorypix/omedicalimages.html Historical anatomical drawings
Historical Anatomies on the Web - historical anatomical drawings (courtesy National Institutes of Health)
Dream Anatomy gallery
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/default.asp Material from the center for disease control and prevention (Note: some few pictures are still copyrighted)

Physics[edit]

http://www.physicsforfree.com/ Physics for Free: Public domain physics textbook in pdf format with illustrations

Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight[edit]

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/ STScI Publication of public domain photography taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (copyright notice)
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ Great Images in NASA library of images.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/picturegallery/index.shtml Gallery for the Spitzer Space Telescope (used to discover Sedna) at JPL
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html
http://nix.nasa.gov/ NIX: NASA Image eXchange
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ NASA planetary image catalog
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ NASA image gallery
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ Johnson Space Center digital image collection
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/index.html 2MASS Atlas Image Gallery (public domain images, acknowledgment required)
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html High resolution Apollo photographs, as well as some Mercury and Gemini photographs
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov JPL (image policy) — note that not all image material is public domain, however what isn't is offered under a free license

Underwater[edit]

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/index.html

US National Parks[edit]

http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html National Park Service Digital Image Index
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/cfprojects/photodb/Photo_search.cfm
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/photogallery/photogallery.htm

Weather[edit]

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/atmo.htm
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/index.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/torscans.htm NOAA pictures of tornadoes

Chemistry[edit]

http://157.98.10.135/Main_Pages/pub-Structures-list-tr.html (structure diagrams of toxic substances)
http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/services/gifcreator/ Will generate (copyright kosher) GIFs or PNGs from molecular description files of may formats. Use {{CACTVSGIF}} for copyright on image page. Valid input formats include: MDL Molfile (or SD files), PDB, JCAMP/CS, CIF (Chiron interchange format, not Crystallographic formats), MDL RXN (Reaction file), RDF (Reaction Data File format), XYZ, SMD4, SMD5, CTX, CACTVS (binary, ascii, cbase), SMILES (including SMARTS subset), Compass, 441, Gaussian/Input, Gaussian/Archive, SCF, SHEL-X, XTEL (XTELPlot input format), Cerius (Ascii exchange format of CeriusII Toolkit), Sharc (SHift ARChives format), Alchemy, Hyperchem, Molconn-Z, Sybyl, Sybyl2, SLN (Sybyl line notation).
German mirror to the above: http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/

History[edit]

Historical images[edit]

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://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://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ Images from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, in many categories.
http://www.old-picture.com/ Collection of images dating from 1850 to 1940, many are therefore in the public domain due to age.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today." See also Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States.
US History Images - Hundreds of historical photos and drawings of the United States free for education, commercial, and personal use.

Specific periods[edit]

World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies
Photos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in america 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine

People[edit]

https://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/ - A selection of portraits of historical figures
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ - A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/dag/ - more than 700 Daguerreotypes 1839 - 1864 (mostly portraits)
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/van/ Creative Americans 1932 - 1964, photographs by Carl Van Vechten; 1400 public domain portrait photos
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ Portraits of famous people, Library of Congress (not all public domain; remember, anything prior to 1923 is, and post-1922 images on the site that are copyright free are indicated)
http://www.radiobras.gov.br/ (click "Fotografias" for today's) - Agência Brasil makes news photos available free of charge. List credit as "Photographer's_Name/ABr". Requires log-in, hard to navigate, but plenty of quality pics.
http://www.generalsandbrevets.com - portraits of all the generals (+1,000) of the American Civil War.
The Oberwolfach Photo Collection. Mathematicians, lots of them. All images tagged with Copyright:MFO are under {{cc-by-sa-2.0-de}}.
The IMF releases photos of IMF/Worldbank meetings with the byline These photographs are in the public domain. Commons have a number of their images with {{PD-imf.org}}. Provide a weblink to the gallery with the PD byline.
The Munich Security Conference (MSC respectively SiKo in german) releases images under a cc-by-3.0 license, see Category:Images from the Munich Security Conference and the correspondending license {{MSC}}. All images are transfered to Commons.
The World Economic Forum releses images on Flickr, see Category:Images from the World Economic Forum and the license template {{WEF}}

Historical costumes[edit]

http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html Hundreds of images of historical costumes from all over the world, from a German book published in 1861.
http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600.technology/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/ Many images of historical costumes from the Levant. Published in Lebanon in 1955, therefore in the public domain, as long as the author, Margaret Clark Keatinge, is credited.

Movies[edit]

www.archive.org/movies/ Historical movies
- - Check rights before using! The Prelinger Archives are clear for reuse, but the other movie collections may not be. - Andre Engels

Locations[edit]

Cities[edit]

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Machine-readable raw map data[edit]

CIA World Data Bank II: available from http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/ and from http://www.246.dk/ciaworld.html

Maps[edit]

https://www.loc.gov/maps/collections/ Library of Congress digital map archive 1500-2002 (some maps under copyright)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/nhs_maps/ U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration maps of the National Highway System (NHS)
https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html PCL Map Collection -- most maps copyrighted,
http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/ Public domain map generator - quite good actually.

Australia[edit]

http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/pictures.html Contains thousands of pictures taken by Australian photographers in various locations, all images which were published in Australia prior to 1955 are in the public domain.
http://freeaussiestock.com Creative Commons photos of Australia

Bangladesh[edit]

Botswana[edit]

www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Bulgaria[edit]

Brasil[edit]

Agência Brasil -- Template:Agência Brasil
Agência de Notícias do Acre on Flickr (also http://www.agencia.ac.gov.br/: cc-by-sa-2.5-br)
Governo da Bahia on Flickr
Governo de Minas Gerais on Flickr
Prefeitura de Olinda on Flickr

Canada[edit]

http://www.imagescanada.ca Check rights!
http://www.archives.ca
http://freefoto.ca - Free pictures. Back link and attribution are required.

Cuba[edit]

Denmark[edit]

PDFnet - Danish site with no copyright.

Egypt[edit]

Finland[edit]

https://oa.doria.fi/handle/10024/33018

France[edit]

http://www.fauvet.net/sf/pagephoto/index.php3?dossier=principal

(may not work)

http://www.gnuart.net/data/photo/index.html

"Il est permis de copier et de diffuser des copies exactes de cette page ; une telle copie exacte devant surtout garder la notice originale de copyright, l'URL originale, la date de l'original, et la présente notice." (The copying and distribution of exact copies of this page is allowed, but exact copies must always keep the original copyright notice, the original URL, the date, and this notice [that is, the french text, not this translation])

Germany[edit]

Some chapters of German parties, federal, state and communal level, or politicians release photos under free licenses on Flickr:

Bündnis90/Die Grünen

SPD

Die Linke

www.flickr.com/photos/paul_schaefer/ (Paul Schaefer, MdB)
www.flickr.com/photos/dielinke-sachsen/

Piratenpartei

http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Kategorie:Bilder (CC BY-SA 3.0 logos etc.)
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Spezial:Dateien (people, PDFs and more, but ? some without license details)

Ghana[edit]

India[edit]

City[edit]

Sonbhadra[edit]

www.sonbhadra.nic.in

Iran[edit]

www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse99/iranimages.html

Ireland[edit]

http://pdphoto.org/

Israel[edit]

http://www.pikiwiki.org.il

Japan[edit]

Luxembourg[edit]

http://www.freephotos.lu

México[edit]

The Detroit Publishing Company Collection (search results for "Mexico")

Middle East[edit]

http://mideastimage.com/ Various historical images of different subjects in the Middle east. Most of the images are in the public domain due to age, but check the age of individual images before uploading anyway, as there are exceptions.
http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/700/770/779/historical/images_past.html Same status as above.

Panama[edit]

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Portugal[edit]

Português: Por norma todas as imagens estão declaradas como protegidas por direitos de autor. Será necessário ver caso a caso quais as que já estão no domínio publico ou com o Copyright expirado (p. ex. fotografias antigas; reproduções bidimensionais de obras no domínio público).

English: Normally all images are declared as protected by Copyright. It will be necessary to see case by case which ones are already in the public domain or with expired Copyright (e.g. old photographs and reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works).

http://digitarq.dgarq.gov.pt/ - Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
http://arquivomunicipal.cm-lisboa.pt/sala/online/ui/SearchBasic.aspx?filter=AF - Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa
http://purl.pt/index/geral/PT/index.html - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
http://www.biblartepac.gulbenkian.pt/ Biblioteca de Arte - Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian
www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/ Biblioteca de Arte - Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian - Flickr
http://digitarq.cpf.dgarq.gov.pt/ - Centro Portugues de Fotografia
http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/ - Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa
http://www.matrizpix.dgpc.pt/matrizpix/home.aspx - MatrizPix Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação
http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/matriznet/home.aspx - MatrizNet Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação

Puerto Rico[edit]

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Russia[edit]

Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation) - All materials (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported), see template on Wikimedia Commons and letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials.
volganet.ru (official website of the Governor of Volgograd Oblast) - All materials (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported) and GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3, see template on Wikimedia Commons and letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary allowing use of volganet.ru materials.

South Africa[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

http://www.picswiss.ch/ (in German) - the photographer has given explicit permission to GFDL the online images, which are lower-res than the ones he sells - see Commons:Picswiss/Permission for the relevant email (also in German)

Thailand[edit]

Official Site of The Prime Minister of Thailand on Flickr (cc-by-2.0)

United Kingdom[edit]

Geograph British Isles - Pictures of UK places, all licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Britain:Photoeverywhere.co.uk collection of UK Creative Commons images (cc-by-2.5)
British Listed Buildings - Listed buildings in the UK. Pictures are licenced Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales (cc-by-2.0)
PhotoDundee.eu - One city, many discoveries – Dundee in photos. Pictures are licenced Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (cc-by-sa-3.0)
Streets of Scotland - Photographs of Scotland's streets. Pictures are licenced Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (cc-by-sa-3.0)

USA[edit]

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present - from the Library of Congress.
John Louie's Aerial Geology - aerial photos of geologically interesting places in California and Nevada, all placed in PD.

New York[edit]

http://www.empirestateroads.com/maps/

Oregon[edit]

Portraits of Oregon, published in the US before 1904, thus PD.

Vermont[edit]

Washington[edit]

http://content.lib.washington.edu/pacificsearch.html (check to see if indiv. collections are public domain)

Uzbekistan[edit]

http://www.uzland.uz/english/ "Copying, reproduction and use of any materials from UzLand are allowed with attribution to this site."

West Indies[edit]

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/

Zambia[edit]

www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Zimbabwe[edit]

www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Various[edit]

http://pdfoto.com - Various locations

Art[edit]

Info Since August 2008, Commons policy allows the uploading of faithful reproductions of 2D public domain works of art, regardless of any claim to copyright made under local law to the contrary.

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters many in the public domain, check catalogue for dates of works and artists.
http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.
National Gallery, UK
National Portrait Gallery, UK

Logos and flags[edit]

http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags&area=flags 376 (at last count) public-domain flags (many national, some regional) in SVG format. Link points to domain parking site!!!
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ CIA World Factbook

Sports[edit]

http://www.igs.net/~bmitchell/Tennis/tennis.htm - Photo gallery of women's tennis players. Photos taken by bmitchell are specially marked and free to be used with credit and link back to the site.
http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/ (see http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/2003/fotos03.php for the photos) - Site of a Dutch ladies' cycling tournament. All pictures copyright Frans Meijer, but may be copied provided the source is acknowledged.
www.flickr.com/photos/keithallison Flickr photostream, taken by a professional sports photographer. Very high quality

U.S. postage stamps[edit]

While not technically public domain after 1978 (all stamps before that are in the public domain) the USPS has a liberal licensing policy regarding stamps. The United States Postal Service retains copyright to stamps under Title 17 of the United States Code. The Domestic Mail Manual, G013 Trademarks and Copyrights, states that while "The USPS secures copyrights in its philatelic designs and certain publications. The designs of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, stamped cards, aerogrammes, souvenir cards, and other philatelic items issued on or after January 1, 1978, are copyrighted by the USPS under title 17 USC." The USPS licenses certain copyrighted material to the public, however, thus:

The use of illustrations of the designs covered by such copyrights is permitted:

a. In editorial matter in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, philatelic catalogs, and philatelic albums.

For the full document, see: http://pe.usps.gov/text/DMM/g013.htm.

An encyclopedia is considered a book, therefore, Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia, could be considered within this permitted use. However, Wikipedia is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and in some cases the GFDL, and as such "permitted use" for Wikipedia alone is not enough. It should also be "permitted use" for all derivative works.

Military[edit]

soldiersmediacenter' s photostream
http://www.army.mil/mediaplayer/armyimages/
[1]. High-resolution images from the U.S. federal government. Signal Corps photographs of American military activity. Creating organizations: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. See: Commons:Copyright tags#United States, and the upload form for images from a US federal government source.
DefenseImagery.mil
DoD
Marine Corps History Division
Navy History

Government[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Images of anarchists and anarchist symbols
Public Domain Pagan Clipart
Public Domain Vectors
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumeweb/index.html - fashion plate archive
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/ Thousands of photographs from as early as 1860 taken by employees of the Union Pacific railroad
http://www.freevector.com/ AI and PDF format vector graphic files.
http://www.vectorportal.com/ Thousands of free vector images for personal and commercial use under Creative Commons License.
http://www.vecteezy.com/ - not too much yet, and not all graphics are Free enough -- but the site encourages free licenses, allows filtering by license terms and is dedicated to vector graphics. There are several entries under BY, BY-SA, and GPL terms. All are vector graphics, but most are not SVG and would require conversion.
Pond5 - host a large public domain collection of 80.000+ HD and 4K files available for research and free consumption, including images, footages and sounds.

Flickr[edit]

Institutions[edit]

www.flickr.com/commons/

Australia - Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Australia - Australian War Memorial collection
Australia - National Library of Australia Commons
Australia - Powerhouse Museum Collection, over 1,000 photos
Australia - State Library of New South Wales collection, over 1,000 photos
Australia - State Library of Queensland, Australia, over 1,000 photos
Canada - Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons
Canada - Musée McCord Museum
Denmark - The Royal Library, Denmark
France - Bibliothèque de Toulouse, over 3,000 photos
Iceland - Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur / Reykjavík Museum of Photography
Ireland - National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Netherlands - Nationaal Archief, over 1,000 photos
New Zeland - National Library NZ on The Commons
Norway - Bergen Public Library
Norway - Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane
Norway - Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway), over 1,000 photos
Poland - Museum of History of Photography
Portugal - Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, over 8,000 photos
Sweden - Stockholm Transport Museum Commons
Sweden - Swedish National Heritage Board
United Kingdom - IWM Collections (Imperial War Museum)
United Kingdom - LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales)
United Kingdom - LSE Library (London School of Economics and Political Science), over 1,000 photos
United Kingdom - Museum of Hartlepool
United Kingdom - The National Archives UK, over 6,000 photos
United Kingdom - National Galleries of Scotland Commons
United Kingdom - National Library of Scotland, over 2,000 photos
United Kingdom - National Maritime Museum
United Kingdom - National Media Museum
United Kingdom - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
USA - Brooklyn Museum, over 5,000 photos
USA - Center for Jewish History, NYC (New York City)
USA - Cornell University Library, over 3,000 photos
USA - DC Public Library Commons (District of Columbia)
USA - The Field Museum Library, over 1,000 photos
USA - George Eastman House, over 1,000 photos
USA - Getty Research Institute
USA - Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
USA - JWA Commons (Jewish Women’s Archive)
USA - Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos (New Hampshire), over 1,000 photos
USA - The Library of Congress, over 16,000 photos
USA - The Library of Virginia
USA - Museum of Photographic Arts Collections
USA - NASA on The Commons
USA - New York Public Library, over 2,000 photos
USA - nha.library (Nantucket Historical Association)
USA - OSU Special Collections & Archives (Oregon State University), over 2,000 photos
USA - San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, over 120,000 photos
USA - Smithsonian Institution, over 1,000 photos
USA - SMU Central University Libraries (Southern Methodist University), over 1,000 photos
USA - State Library and Archives of Florida, over 1,000 photos
USA - Texas State Archives
USA - The U.S. National Archives, over 10,000 photos
USA - UA Archives | Upper Arlington History
USA - UW Digital Collections (University of Washington)
USA - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives

Other[edit]

www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ - over 25,000 photos by Frederick FN Noronha. We've received a release via OTRS (Ticket:2010031410022872) from Frederick Noronha permitting the importing to Commons of any images placed there on or before 31 March 2010 under the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. He does not wish to place this release on the images themselves or the website, but is pleased to permit Commons users to import what they please under those terms.
www.flickr.com/photos/octal/collections/ - Middle East
flickr.com/photos/fortes/collections/
www.flickr.com/photos/catsper/sets/
www.flickr.com/photos/sharif/collections/ - travel, art photo
www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/sets/ - art
www.flickr.com/photos/woodysworld1778/collections/ - Alberta and Mexican license plates
www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/ - Iraq war
www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyharris/sets/ - travel
www.flickr.com/photos/xctmx/sets/ - art photo
www.flickr.com/photos/indy138/sets/ - Japan, England
www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/collections/
www.flickr.com/photos/vinish/sets/
www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/sets/ - art photo
www.flickr.com/photos/payalvora/sets/ - Kashmir, art photo
www.flickr.com/photos/ahron/sets/ - quality travel
www.flickr.com/photos/vm2827/sets/ - 3000 photos
www.flickr.com/photos/ssanyal/sets/ - 1000 photos
www.flickr.com/photos/rahul3/sets/
www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/collections/ - 10,000 photos
www.flickr.com/photos/gregor_y/collections/ - people, travel, outdoors, music
www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/sets/ - quality travel
www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/collections/ - birds, flora and fauna, travel
www.flickr.com/photos/party0/collections/ - 7,500 Japanese photos
flickr.com/photos/jamesdale10/sets/ - US Government Photographer, plenty of free quality images, over 20,000 photos
flickr.com/photos/krisdecurtis/sets/ - art photo
flickr.com/photos/ndanger/sets/
flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/sets/ - travel
flickr.com/photos/tenerife/collections/
flickr.com/photos/le_korrigan/sets/ - mostly Asia
flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/sets/
flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/sets/
flickr.com/photos/gustty/collections/
flickr.com/photos/xemit/sets/72157603401141130/ - European architecture
flickr.com/photos/debord/sets/ - Argentina, Peru
flickr.com/photos/anantablamichhane/collections/
flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/sets/
www.flickr.com/photos/viagallery/collections/ - technology
www.flickr.com/photos/robertnelson/sets/ - technology
www.flickr.com/photos/izarbeltza/collections/ - art, travel
www.flickr.com/photos/suicidegirls/ - nudity
www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/
www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/ - art
www.flickr.com/photos/lge/ - LG Group official account under CC-BY: products, advertisements, Korean and international celebrities

Uncategorized links[edit]

U.S. Government sites[edit]

U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
The National Science Foundation Image Library: Really great resource for all sorts of science imagery. Must fill out form to download, but most images are for public use as long as attributed. You can use {{NSFIL}} for copyright tagging (don't forget attribution).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
NOAA Photo Library
United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library

Other sites:

http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm
I find it useful to go to Google Image Search and type in "site:.gov", and then the thing I'm searching for. (Example) Most of the images returned will be public domain images hosted on U.S. government web sites (although it's important to check.)

Computer-generated public domain images[edit]

Automatic public domain map generating program
Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883 Note: should be cited in the Images page as: "[list full source]. Reproduced from the National Library of Canada's website (www.nlc-bnc.ca)."

Public domain image meta-resources[edit]

http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/imagcoll.html
http://www.archivalart.com/
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
www.dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/ (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
Yahoo! Creative Commons Search BETA - try specifying "image" or "photo" and the object of the search as terms
http://yotophoto.com/ A free (libre) image search engine
Dover Publications has many, many books of copyright-free illustrations. Search on "copyright-free", "clip art" or "Pictorial Archive". These are hard copy and would have to be scanned, but they cover everything. You have to buy the books or borrow them from the library; the art is free. Here are just a few examples:
- Plants: 2,400 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Vegetables
- Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of World-Famous Places: 109 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Pets: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Appliances and Electronics: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Portraits of Famous People: 121 Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Mammals Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Marine Animals: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Authentic Civil War Illustrations: 245 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Bird Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Flower Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Endangered Animals Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Ready-to-Use Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations: 294 Different Copyright-Free Designs
- Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book 46 accurate illustrations copyright-free.
- Weapons and Armor, 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, more
- Transportation, 525 copyright-free illustrations include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many other vehicles.
http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition