Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Public domain image resources (section)

==Subject-based collections==
===Art===
Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the artwork's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
====Museum Collections====
* [https://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&pg=1 Getty Open Content Program] – 10,000 images from the Getty Museum Collection<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html|title=Open Content Program (The Getty)|language=en|accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref>
* [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection The Met Collection]- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online gallery includes public domain images of artwork. Choose "open access" search option.
* [http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)] – American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institution. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.

====Paintings====
* [https://www.artrenewal.org/Museum/Search#/ Art Renewal Center] – Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters, many in the public domain; check catalogue for dates of works and artists.
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/ Web Museum, Paris, Famous Artworks exhibition]
* [http://www.thefamousartists.com The Famous Artists] – Resource with biographies and selected works of artists whose works are all in the public domain.

===Science and Technology===

====Automotive====
*[http://www.carsandracingstuff.com The Crittenden Automotive Library]. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be marked "Public domain" or by year of publication if before 1922.

====Computer-Generated Maps====
*[http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS] – Automatic public domain map generating program.
*PAT public domain maps: [http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/world.html world],  [http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/region.html regional], [http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/country.html country] state ([http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/us/state.html US], [http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/ca/province.html CA], [http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/au/state.html AU])

====Medicine====
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html History of Medicine] at the National Library of Medicine. Most but not all of the exhibitions are PD. Clicking on "Metadata" near the bottom of the page will generate a popup window with information that includes rights usage for each page.
* [http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ National Cancer Institute Visuals Online] -Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute.
* [https://www.niddk.nih.gov/copyright National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases] "The majority of information on this site is copyright free and can be freely downloaded and reproduced. Content reproduced without changes should acknowledge the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as the source."

===Clip art===
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Clip art is generally composed exclusively of illustrations (created by hand or by computer software), and does not include stock photography.

* http://www.wpclipart.com – exists to maintain and grow an online collection of artwork for schoolkids and others that is free of copyright concerns as well as safe from inappropriate images. To ensure these qualities, no direct user-uploaded images are allowed. This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries.
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*[http://www.openclipart.org/ Open Clip Art] – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
*[http://www.pdclipart.org Public Domain Clip Art]- 25,000+ Public Domain Clip Arts (good for printing). Categorized & searchable.
*[http://www.publicdomainvectors.org/ Public Domain Vectors]- Categorized and searchable vector graphics in public domain
 (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
*[https://www.clipartspy.com/ ClipartSpy]: Searchable clipart images in the public domain.
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===Countries===
====Australia====
*[https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/images?l-advavailability=y%2Ff&l-advrights=Free Trove], the [[National Library of Australia]]'s search engine, includes over 400 thousand freely licensed images, about 300 thousand of which are in the public domain or available under a CC0 license.
====Ireland====
* [http://www.ireland-information.com/public-domain-photographs-of-ireland/freephotosofireland.htm ireland-information.com]  Thousands of Public domain photographs of Ireland, Irish history, scenery, castles, landscapes, etc. as well as photos of items that can be applied to any project: animals, houses, buildings, etc.
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland The National Library of Ireland on Flickr] Uploads hundreds of public domain historic images of Ireland. Much greater ease of use for Wikipedia needs than the actual National Library of Ireland website. 
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/oireachtas/ The House of the Oireachtas on Flickr] uploads hundreds of images from Ireland's two houses of government under creative commons licenses. 
* [https://www.oireachtas.ie/ oireachtas.ie] uploads "official" portraits of Irish [[Teachtai Dala]] and Senators under creative commons licenses. Unfortunately, as of 2021, these images are rarely, if ever, in high resolution.

====Mexico====
* [http://www.playadelcarmenmexico.org PlayaDelCarmenMexico.org] Public domain photos of Playa del Carmen.

====New Zealand====
* [http://www.freenzphotos.com Free New Zealand Photos] Free photos of New Zealand under Creative Common license.

====United States====
=====Florida=====
* [http://www.myfloridahistory.org/fhspics Florida Historical Society] Contains historical photographs of Florida.
* [http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection Florida Memory Project] Contains Public Domain images taken in Florida.
* [http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/library/collections.cfm State of Florida Library] Contains many photographs and documents dealing with Florida.

===History===
* http://ushistoryimages.com – Public domain images from United States history.
* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site] - Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them.
* [http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm Images from The Newgate Calendar]. Crimes and criminals from the 18th century [[The Newgate Calendar|Newgate Calendar]].
* http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Collection images scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable. Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
* [http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine] - The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.
* [http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/ Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library] - online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword.
* [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ New York Public Library]. Over 700,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.
* http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Images scanned from old books. States that images on the site are the works of artists who "...have been dead for over seventy years, which makes them part of the public domain in many countries". Searchable by keywords.
* [http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/ "The Secret Museum of Mankind"] – collection of anthropological photographs published in a 1935 book without copyright. Scanned and released under a CC-NC license, but images should be public domain, at least in the US, since they are faithful reproductions of PD images.

===Specific periods===
* [http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in America 1908] – 1912 by [[Lewis W. Hine]]
* [http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/photographs.html Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum] Thousands of on-line, copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
* [http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm Photos of the Great War] many images of [[World War I]], scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
* [http://greatwar.nl/kleur/kleur.html The Heritage of the Great War] has several colour pictures from World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
* [http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/ World War II Poster Collection] over 300 posters issued by US Federal agencies

===Literature===
*http://archive.org – Scanned-in books, maps, manuscripts, and historical documents; Public Domain; available in a number of formats including epub, kindle, and daisy; Searchable.
*http://openlibrary.org – Project of the Internet Archive to provide a web page for every book.
*http://books.google.com – Scanned-in books & historical documents.  Keyword searchable.  Great source for diagrams/illustrations. (not all public domain, many still in copyright) Books google believes are in the public domain are available for download as pdf. see [[Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.]]
*http://gutenberg.org – Scanned-in books. Searchable.
*http://catalog.hathitrust.org – Scanned-in books from partner universities.  Searchable.
*http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/ – Scanned-in books from partner Spanish universities.  Searchable.

===Logos and flags===
*http://www.wpclipart.com/flags/index.html 436 flags, countries listed  alphabetically, also US State flags, historical and others. All in PNG format.
*http://www.openclipart.org/
* https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook

===Military===
* [http://cdm16021.contentdm.oclc.org/ US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library]

===Music===
* [http://freepd.com/ FreePD.com] – sells original public domain music
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/ The Mutopia Project] – (not only) public domain sheet music

===Postage stamps===
* [[Commons:Category:Stamps]]

===Religion===
*http://www.theworkofgodschildren.org Collection of high-resolution images of the Roman Catholic saints, religious symbols and related imagery. All pictures have been released into the public domain.
*http://www.coolnotions.com/PDImages/pd_StoryOfTheBible.htm Collection of Public Domain pictures from the Bible.