A tutorial offering tools and tips to aid in the discovery and use of images found on the Web.

Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.

Intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.

illustrations of black people in multiple formats for your next digital project. Free for commercial use.

Access to search engines that allow Creative Commons searches.

A photo sharing site. Search member created tags or search the Flickr Creative Commons pool at www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Exchange for using and contributing free stock photography.

Free stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use - advertising revenue supported.

Contains a portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Open-source package of 750 icons targeted for designers and developers for use in mobile apps and interactive projects.

Flickr archive with over 2.6 million + public domain images from books, magazines, and newspapers published over the last 500 years. Images and captions harvested from Google Book project.

"Include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings" primarily on American history.

Luna Commons is a database of sixteen free digital image collections. There are over 100,000 images all available for download in good resolution. Featured collections include: Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection, The Farber Gravestones Collection, Maps of Africa, Cornell Political Americana Collection, and the The Estate Collection of Art by HIV+ artists.

A repository of over 42,000 open access digital images from the collections of the National Gallery of Art.

Graphic symbols and photos created by contributors from around the world. Symbols and photos are freely available for use under public domain or CCBY license (with attribution), or without attribution for a small fee.

New York Public Library's searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collections. Also browsable by names and subjects.

A freely-accessible site for searching freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.

Article illustrations provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license. This means that anyone, anywhere can use the images created for opensource.com as long as they give us credit and keep it licensed under Creative Commons.

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are tagged, searchable and also easy to discover.

A repository of public domain pictures including free vectors, drawings and photos. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.

Royalty free stock photography from $1.

A free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos with Creative Commons licensing.

65,000+ vector images in the public domain.

Find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.

Public Domain Vintage Design Resources with a CC0 License • Photos and Graphic Illustrations.

A free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images.

Free photographs that designers and students can share and use for their personal and non-commercial design work.

Over 300,000 free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

100,000 images free for use in education.

Free illustrations to customize, animate and download to make landing pages, apps or presentations.