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** [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site] |
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* Weapons and Armor, 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, more |
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* Transportation, 525 copyright-free illustrations include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many exotic vehicles. |
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Revision as of 02:48, 21 July 2002
There are a number of sources of 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 in the public domain: you are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Wikipedia.
See also:
Objects
- Aeroplanes
- Animals
- Cities
- Crops
- Fish
- Food
- Fruits/Vegtables
- Herbs
- Historical images (but see also portraits below)
- Insects
- Landscape features (moutains, deserts, craters, etc)
- Maps
- Medicine
- Military
- Music
- Plants
- Portraits
- Satellites
- Ships
- Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight
- http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html
- NIX: NASA Image eXchange
- NASA planetary image catalog
- NASA photo gallery
- Johnson Space Center digital image collection
- Public domain works done for NASA by Don Davis: high-resolution scans of space-related paintings.
- Underwater
- US National Parks
- Weather
- World Leaders
Locations
- Botswana
- Cuba
- France
- Iran
- Ireland
- Japan
- Mexico
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- South Africa
- USA
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Orange County
- San Diego
- Vermont
- West Indies
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Miscellaneous
- GIMP Archive Royalty-free photos
- Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images
- Public Domain Pagan Clipart
Uncategorized links
U.S. Government sites
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pictures
- More U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
- NOAA Photo Library
Other sites:
- http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm
- Physics for Free (Public domain physics textbook in pdf format with illustrations)
Computer-generated public domain images:
Public domain image meta-resources:
- http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/imagcoll.html
- http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Science_Internet/TI_2001E/index.html
- http://www.archivalart.com/
- http://GIMP-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
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, but 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 exotic vehicles.
I would like to help scan this images. I have two scanners, several computers and LOTS of spare time.(unemployed) Johnraphone