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Image Archives and Collections
ARTSTOR Public Collection
Artstor’s ever-growing public collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums. Anyone may view and download these collections; no subscription or login required.
Europeana Collections
Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.
Google Arts and Culture
Google partnered with over 2000 cultural institutions to provide access to their collection. You can link to these works but you can not download them for other use.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digital collections situated in American history, created and preserved by the Library of Congress.
LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
LUNA Commons
A wide variety of high quality open-access image collections of cultural heritage material from museums, archives, universities and other repositories.
Moving Image (Internet) Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. A rich core collection of archival movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Provides open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.
PEN America's Digital Archive
Online archive of public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.
Free Images
Creative Commons Images
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Morgue File
Over 400,000 DRM free images.
Negative Space
A collection of images free for personal and commercial use.
Pexels
Pexels provides free stock photos, made available through their own Pexels license, which allows you to use and edit without attribution.
Pikwizard
Over 1 million stock images and videos.
Royalty free and safe for commercial use, with no attribution required.
Images labeled "premium" excluded.
Pixabay
DRM and royalty image collections. Always check the license options per image for any use restrictions or attribution requirements.
Unsplash
All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.
