Open Educational Resources (OER)

Search through Flickr's Creative Commons for open images. Each contributor will have a specific license for each image.

Free quirky photos that can be used for personal and commercial use. Review their "License" section for the do's and don'ts of image use.

Open access to digital collections and exhibits from the Library of Congress.

Free high resolutions photos. Sharing one's own photos is encouraged to create a give and take environment.

New York Times images published prior to January 1, 1923

A sample of the digitization process of 13 million public domain images from Smithsonian Institute.

All photos are licensed as Creative Commons Zero and can adopted, modify, and distribute for free and without attribution.

Free photos between 40 and years old. Only use restriction is the photo cannot be the focal point.

""The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required." Be sure to filter results by selecting "Open Content Images" with search request.