Please note
The links on this page will help you find images, most of which are protected by copyright. To find out if you can use the images for your project, please read the information on copyright and fair use.
General Resources
- U.S. Government Photos and ImagesOr search for "graphics"
- TinEye"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions."
Photographs
- CalPhotos (Plants, Animals, Fossils, etc.)A digital collection of over 400,000 natural history photographs from around the world.
Art, Archives, and Museums
- British Museum"You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use. ... For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license [i.e., Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)], or to license high-resolution versions of the images for commercial uses, you can contact the British Museum’s image service at bmimages.com."
- CARLI Digital CollectionsA repository for digital content from the collections of academic and research libraries in Illinois.
- Digital Images Collections WikiA "resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes."
- Explore ChicagoSearch the content of over 20 digital libraries and archives in Chicago.
- Google Art ProjectUseful for viewing artwork; images cannot be downloaded.
- Images d'ArtDatabase of the artworks from several French museums, including the Louvre, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Musée d'Orsay.
- Library of Congress: Prints and PhotographsWith detailed information on assessing rights and restrictions on the use of images in the collection at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html.
- Luna CommonsFind historic images and photographs, but note that licensing may vary; some images may be free of copyright and others are not, so be sure to read the rights restrictions for the image you select.
- The MetDigital images of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, including some in the public domain (identified using the Creative Commons designation).
- National Gallery of ArtNGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art [in Washington D.C.]. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. ... More than 51,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration."
- Shared Shelf Commons"Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images." Search and browse digitized collections from over 40 participating colleges and institutions.
- Victoria and Albert Museum CollectionsFrom "the world’s greatest museum of art and design."
- Visual Collections (DavidRumsey.com / Cartography Associates)"The Visual Collections site from Cartography Associates contains dozens of digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world." It also includes several map collections. You will have access to the free collections.
Books online
- Google Books This link opens in a new window
A digitized collection of books from a variety of partners including libraries. It includes both in copyright and public domain items. For out of copyright and public domain items, users can access the entire text.
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
A collection of items created by a non-profit organization dedicated to permanently preserving historically significant collections in digital form. Though it includes internet sites, images, audio recordings, and music archives it is widely known for its digitized book collections which cover everything from fiction to historical and academic texts. Both in-copyright and public domain materials can be found here.
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