Lots of Public Domain Images

Here’s a big list that should have every picture you’ve ever wished you could find:

• Flickr’s Creative Commons Pool: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their pictures under a Creative Commons license. A Flickr Advanced Search also allows you to search for these images easily.
• Flickr Storm (select appropriate Creative Common license from pull-down menu)
• FlickrCC Blue Mountains Displays attribution
• Compfight: A Flickr Search Tool
• Sprixi
• Flickr Free Use Photos Photo sharing, no attribution necessary
• Beholdcc Use the boxes before you search to select licensing
• Creative Commons A multimedia CC search, searches across Google, Flickr, Yahoo!, BlipTV, SpinXpress, and OWL Music Search, allowing searchers to specify a search for media to use to modify or for commercial purposes
• Shahi Visual Dictionary (check for licensing, many are CC and Wiktionary)
• Flickr: The Commons (contributions from major institutions)
• openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search in the top bar
• BurningWell (public domain, high resolution photos)
• Compfight.com
• 25 Free Stock Photo Sites
• Photl
• Wellcome Images (medical and social images)
• 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog
• Creativity103.com (abstract backgrounds)
• Photos8 (public domain photos)
• OpenClipArt.org
• Public Domain Clipart
• Sevenload.com
• VADS: Free Art and Design Images for Education (Read Terms of Use)
• US Government Photos and Multimedia Most materials is in the public domain, but read the disclaimers.
• Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr
• Yahoo Creative Commons Search
• Wikimedia Commons: A database of 14 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
  • Images by type
  • Wikimedia Commons-Images-Science
  • Wikimedia Commons-Images-Nature
  • Wikimedia Commons-Images-Society
• Free Digital Photos
• Pics4Learning Copyright friendly images for education
• GetMedia
• MorgueFile “provides the public and creative community with free photos..
• Free Pixels:images may be used for both personal and commercial purposes under the limitations of this license
• Free Photos Bank
• stock.xchng
• PD Photo
• Public Domain Photos and Wallpaper
• Public Domain Pictures – high resolution photos and illustrations under public domain license
• Public Domain Images Public domain images (copyright friendly -safe images), royalty free stock photos. All photos on this site are top quality high resolution public domain images, explicitly placed in the public domain.
• FreeFoto.com
• 4 Free Photos – collection of over 700 free images offered by the photographer
• Free Photo 1
• OurMedia
• FreeMediaGoo
• AnimalPhotos.info
• CarPictures.cc
• Images for Education (for UK higher ed.)
• Black and White Clipart

Thanks to Copyright Friendly Wiki for creating this list!

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