Boehme, Karl Theodore, Earth's Last Kiss to the Dying Day, 1872. University of Cincinnati. http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/dmc_collectiondb.html> (accessed November 2, 2006).
A & A, Courtauld Institute of Art
A site featuring over 26,000 images of art and architecture from the collections of the Courtauld Institute.
The African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
2000 images of contemporary works.
Archive of African Artists
The National Museum of African Art Library maintains this unique collection of more than 2,000 files on contemporary African artists. The individual artist files may contain gallery brochures, exhibition announcements, and invitations, price lists, resumes, press releases, reviews, and newspaper cuttings.
The Art Collection and the Digital Media Center (UC access only)
The Art Collection provides access to over 54,000 art images from prehistoric to contemporary times. The Digital Media Center (DMC) also provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world.
Art Images for College Teaching
The Art Images for College Teaching home site supports the free exchange of image resources. The site offers a wide array of art historical imagery ranging from pre-historic to the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on images of architectural and archaeological sites.
ARTstor (UC access only)
300,000 images of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, and design. Included in the image database is an Art History Survey Collection consisting of 4000 images and 20,000 architecture images from antiquity to the present. ARTstor allows users to create presentations and insert annotations; it can be used either on or offline. For a quick guide to using the database try More about ARTstor. Or download the ARTstor Software Manual (PDF format) which contains detailed instructions.
ARC
The Art Renewal Center offers an online museum of art from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Images are accessed by searching an artist's name, nationality, birth, or death dates. The ARC also posts the winners of the ARC Salon exhibition. This Salon highlights contemporary representational art.
Art History Resources on the Web
A directory to art historical sites. The site provides coverage from pre-historic to contemporary art and architecture in a variety of media. Visitors are able to garner basic information about artworks and discover information about non-western art and architecture. The site provides a list of international museums and their links as well as research resources.
Artcyclopedia
This site allows the visitor to search for a particular artist or title and discover information about the artist's bibliography, links to museums that hold objects by a particular artist, images of a particular work of art, web links, and online articles pertaining to the subject matter. Artcyclopedia has links to purchasing posters and the entertaining "This Day in Art History."
ArtServe
This image site, run by The Australian National University, features art and architecture images primarily from the Mediterranean Basin, India, and Japan. However, the site also includes a wealth of Northern European imagery. One may perform a search for a specific item or subject, or simply select links to subject, country of origin, artist name, or title. Student projects and scholarly publications are made available for study as well.
Atlas
The official database of the Musée du Louvre, which includes label copy and images of each work. A search engine provides multiple search strategies (in French only).
The DAAP Digital Image Teaching Collection (UC access only)
Represents core images required to support the DAAP curriculum. These images span a broad spectrum of the visual arts including contemporary performance artists to urban landscapes.
D’Art: Internet Art Database
An excellent resource for researching the working artist, this commercial database includes information from artists, collectors, and dealers, including images of works for sale.
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Searchable database of over 82,000 images from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young museum and the Legion of Honor).
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
This collection includes over 300,000 images of art and architecture in Asia. Images, ranging from about 2500 B.C.E. to the present, are included from the countries of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
This database includes more than 13.7 million photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collection is particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests, and achievements of the American people. The site also includes a list of resources and bibliographies.
Getty Collections
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles provides images from their collection.
Grove Dictionary Art (UC access only)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Searchable database of over 6,500 objects, including the entire collections of the Department of European Paintings and the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, as well as highlights from each of the museum’s other curatorial departments. The database is searchable by artist, period, or style. The site also features a chronological timeline of art history and several educational resources.
MFA Boston
Updated weekly, the MFA’s database includes over 323,000 of the 450,000 objects in the museum’s collection. An advanced search aids in searching, and works are also categorized by museum department.
National Gallery of Art (UK)
This online database includes the entire collection of the British National Gallery’s permanent collection and long-term loans, providing illustrations and descriptions of all objects. The collection can also be viewed by popularity, time period, subject, artist, and theme. Additional features of the site include artist biographies, a guide to religious stories and classical myths, and a special features section that changes frequently.
National Gallery of Art (USA)
An online database of the collection of the National Gallery of Art, searchable by artist, title, subject, expanded search, provenance, or accession number. Over 5,600 works are now available online.
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
This online database provides illustrations for over 44,000 portraits and information for nearly 85,000 works. The database is searchable by sitter, artist, and title, and also includes advanced search features.
National Portrait Gallery (USA)
This online database provides access to more than 80,000 portrait records. Separate searches provide access to the NPG collection, a biographical search, and the Catalog of American Portraits, which includes portraits in both public and private collections in the US and abroad.
NYPL Picture Collection Online
The Picture Collection Online (PCO) is a select group of images from The New York Public Library (Mid-Manhattan Library) Picture Collection. The collection consists of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines, and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints, and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Otis College of Art + Design
Approximately 8,000 images of 2,000 artists' books.
Oxford Portraits
Oxford University's collection of portraits includes images of individuals from all walks of life, including British and foreign monarchs, leaders of nations, scientists, writers, scholars, and artists.
Peter A. Juley and Son Collection
4,700 images of portraits of famous artists from 1906-1975.
Royal Academy of the Arts Collection
A Web site providing a search engine for the Royal Academy’s collection of works of art, rare books, and archives. Updated regularly, the site also provides themed groupings of works.
Online Photography Collection-Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Web site for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s photography collection. The main page focuses on three of their primary collections: The First Century of American Photographs, Contemporary American Landscape Photography, and American Daguerreotypes. A search engine is also available.
Tate
Database for the entire collection of the Tate, which encompasses British Art since 1500 and international modern art. Searchable by artist, subject, title, and advanced search features. The site also includes a glossary of art terms.
The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
Over 2,000 image of works by Vincent Van Gogh.
Over 100,000 images of visual art images.
Visual Collections
Contains over 300,000 images from more than 30 collections. These images fall under several subject matters including cartography, fine art, architecture, and photography. The site offers several features for viewing, including a zoom tool and multiple image viewing.
Web Gallery of Art
Contains over 12,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented upon and biographies of the significant artists are given. Visitors can choose to search by title, artist's name, type, or simply take one of the guided tours. The site also provides free online postcards.
WorldArt Image Database
The World Art image database allows you to search over 35,000 art and architecture images from throughout the world, from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century. One is able to search by artist name, title, subject matter, period, art form, or nationality. Images on the site are zoomable to view details.
The Architecture and Urban Planning Collection
Contains a variety of images from many sources. Included in the collection are images of urban planning projects from China, Africa, Europe, and the United States. Many of these images represent research projects of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning faculty and students. Images of the built environment are from the Cincinnati Preservation Association, professional and amateur photographers, and from students and staff at the University of Cincinnati. These images are available to the general public. The collection is growing continually.
19th Century Photography of Ancient Greece
Illustrates approximately 200 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. These images belong to the Getty Research Institute's Gary Edwards Collection and focus primarily on images of Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, South Italy, and Sicily. Visitors may browse the site by topic and monument title.
20th Century Canada: The Canadian Architectural Photography Web Project
Provides an image repository containing 10,000 photographs of the Canadian built environment.
20th Century American Architecture & Interior Design
A collection of over 29,000 images of architecture and interior design. Includes notable American homes.
AIA Index
American Institute of Architects database providing access to projects, architects, and journal articles from selected periodicals published between the years 1982-1988.
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
From the web site: “This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models.”
Asian Historical Architecture
This image and information database offers a photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. The collection contains over 8,500 photos from 521 sites in eighteen different countries and takes contributions from many scholars and students. Visitors may browse by country, city, or site. Maps of each country are also available for viewing.
ArchINFORM International Database
Focusing on twentieth century and international architecture, this database originated from records of interesting building projects from architecture students. It is now the largest online database of worldwide architects and buildings, and includes over 13,000 projects, both built and unrealized.
ArchNet Digital Library
The ArchNet Digital Library offers images of Islamic Architecture. Images can be viewed by collection, country of location, building type, use or style, century or decade, and site name
Architecture Databases from the University of Michigan
Includes access to:
Archivision Architecture Images
Art, Architecture and Engineering Library
Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library
Borobudur
French Architecture
Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
Humanities Department (Dearborn)
ArchitectureWeek
Various architecture images available.
ARTstor (UC access only)
300,000 images of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, and design. Included in the image database is an Art History Survey Collection consisting of 4,000 images and 20,000 architecture images from antiquity to the present. ARTstor allows users to create presentations and insert annotations; it can be used either on or offline. For a quick guide to using the database try More about ARTstor. Or download the ARTstor Software Manual (PDF format) which contains detailed instructions.
Cities and Buildings Database
This image and information database is made available through the University of Washington Libraries. The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of images of buildings and cities, international in scope and spanning across time. The collection receives contributions from a wide range of scholars and contains over 5,000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages to the Parc de la Villette and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project.
Dearborn-Massar Collection
This image and information database, available through the University of Washington Libraries, offers the Phyllis and Robert Massar Photograph Collection of Pacific Northwest Architecture. The archive focuses on photographs of architecture in the Pacific Northwest during the period 1943-1963.
A Digital Archive of Architecture
Personal collection of architectural photographs taken by Professor Jeffrey Howe from Boston College.
Digital Image Access Project-Columbia/RLG
This database features images from Columbia’s DIAP collection. Highlights include the New American Ghetto Collection (images of the Bronx), the construction of the Empire State Building, the Amiens Cathedral, Italian Architecture, and the Aviador Collection of architectural drawings.
Search by street name, building name, and city. This is a worldwide site with images that can be licensed (images will have a watermark unless purchased.)
Glass, Steel, and Stone
This architecture image database is searchable in a variety of ways but the main page sorts buildings by type, location, completion date, and address.
The Great Buildings Collection
This resource is a gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents with over a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects. Contains 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more; for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with Architecture Week , the leading architecture magazine online, and a current list of journal articles that apply to architecture.
HABS & HAER: Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record
This collection includes a diverse array of triumphs of architecture, engineering, and design in the U.S. and its territories, recorded by the National Park Service with cooperation from the Library of Congress and the private sector. Spanning from the Pre-Columbian period to the twentieth century, the database contains more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures, and is constantly expanding.
Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
Nineteenth and twentieth century illustrations from various publications. These illustrations are often subjective interpretations of the art and architecture depicted.
The Knowlton School of Architecture (KSA) Digital Library
Go to the guest login to see approximately 10,000 images of architecture from Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture
Maecenas Images
This collection of images is extracted from the personal collection of Leo C. Curran. The site highlights images from Ancient Greece and Rome, including imagery not only from the Mediterranean but also throughout Europe. Visitors may perform a general search or browse the collection by site location.
Metropolitan Design Center
Image bank of over 17,000 images focusing on the Twin Cities in Minnesota from 1990-present.
Perseus Digital Library-Tufts University
This site is a digital library from Tufts University’s Classics collection, providing access to primary and secondary sources about ancient Greece and Rome. The site includes over 56,000 images and has expanded to cover a few additional topics other than ancient times.
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
A database that includes information about buildings, projects, architects, engineers, contractors, and over 93,000 images. Images and information focus primarily on structures in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas.
Professor Mary Ann Sullivan’s Digital Imaging Project - Bluffton College
This image database features over 11,000 images of art and architecture. Encompassing pre-history to the post-modern era, the database is divided by geographic locations, and also features a chronology and artist/architect index.
University of Minnesota Digital Collections
This database provides access to the University of Minnesota’s Digital Collections and includes over 5,000 architectural images.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
The Society of Architectural Historians image exchange is compiled by members' personal image collections and was created for educational use. The site has two databases: The World Survey and The American Survey. The first contains architectural imagery from around the globe while the second focuses on those architectural sites found in the United States. Both databases are arranged chronologically.
SPIRO
SPIRO is the University of California: Berkeley Architecture Visual Resources Library. The site offers images and database information for a vast number of topography charts, plans, diagrams, and images. The database is international in scope and covers prehistoric sites to the present day. Visitors may search by period, topic, creator name, title, subject, and image I.D.
Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. The site concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, which are preserved in one advertising collection available at Duke University.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
This site offers over 7 million images. The images are on a variety of topics and subject matter, including Daguerreotype photographs, maps, historical documents, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, etc.
A few hundred high quality images of posters from 1880-1918. These images are in the public domain.
ARTstor (UC access only)
300,000 images of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, and design. Included in the image database is an Art History Survey Collection consisting of 4,000 images and 20,000 architecture images from antiquity to the present. ARTstor allows users to create presentations and insert annotations; it can be used either on or offline. For a quick guide to using the database try More about ARTstor. Or download the ARTstor Software Manual (PDF format) which contains detailed instructions.
Bayou Bend Collection
Images of American Decorative Arts.
Chipstone Collection Images
Images of Early American furniture, and seventeenth and eighteenth century ceramics.
The DAAP Digital Image Teaching Collection (UC access only)
Represents core images required to support the DAAP curriculum. These images span a broad spectrum of the visual arts including contemporary performance artists to urban landscapes.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
9,000 advertising images from Duke University.
Graphic Design in Travel Ephemera
An online gallery of a large personal collection of illustrated ephemera from European, Asian, and American “travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising, and graphic design publications.”
Posters American Style (Smithsonian)
This collection of posters, gathered from both private and public collections, ranges from early to modern examples, emphasizing the importance of graphic design, powerful slogans, and the diversity of the American audience. Subjects include political movements, concerts, sporting events, and more.
Swiss Poster Collection
An online collection of over 300 posters from Carnegie Mellon University’s Swiss Poster Collection, representing the Swiss Posters of the Year competition and other Swiss posters from 1971 to the present. The site features a search engine, tours by topic, designer, or keyword, information about the collection, and related links.
Census Bureau
This web site for the United States Census Bureau includes a searchable database of statistics for population and housing. The site also features maps.
Chicago Imagebase
Includes images of maps, photographs, and census data of the Chicago Metropolitan area.
Cities and Buildings Database
This image and information database is made available through the University of Washington Libraries and is a collection of images of buildings and cities, international in scope and spanning across time. The collection receives contributions from a wide range of scholars and contains over 5,000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages to the Parc de la Villette and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project.
Cities Collection
Views of cities around the world photographed by astronauts while in orbit.
The Electronic Library of Colorado Architecture, Landscape, and Planning (ELCALP)
Database of images and information on architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning. Designed by the faculty and staff at the University of Colorado.
Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
This site offers maps and illustrations in several subject areas dating from 1500 to 2004. Subject areas include: Cities and Towns, Conservation and Environment, Exploration and Discovery, Cultural Landscapes, Military Battles and Campaigns, Transportation and Communication, and General Maps.
Metropolitan Design Center
Over 28,000 images. "The focus of the collection is the Twin Cities metropolitan region in Minnesota and dates from the early 1990s through the present."
OhioLINK LANDSAT 7 Satellite Image Server
Provides satellite imagery of the state of Ohio. Urban growth, natural resource loss, and crop health are a few of the environmental issues monitored with this satellite data.
Skyscraper Page
The Skyscraper Page offers the visitor access to information regarding skyscrapers throughout the world. Visitors can view diagrams, illustrations, photos, and garner information of over 27,700 structures.
US Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey site offers scientific information about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment. The site features articles, maps, and photographs pertaining to these topics.
AP Images (UC access only) Connect
An electronic library containing the current year's photo reports from the Associated Press and a selection of photos from their 50 million-image print and negative library.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
This site offers over 7 million images. The images are on a variety of topics and subject matter including Daguerreotype photographs, maps, historical documents, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, etc.
Bristol Biomedical Image Archive
The Bristol Biomedical Image Archive is a collection of medical, dental, and veterinary images.
British Library
Images from the British Library collections.
British Pathe Limited
Offers a collection of more than 12 million historic photographs from the British Pathe Film Archive. These images cover news, sports, social history, and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
Classroom Clipart
K-12 students may use these images for school projects and reports. Other users may sign up for a fee.
CultureGrams (UC access only) Connect
620 images of over 50 countries. Includes maps.
Academic Search Complete
Click on the Images tab to see over 180,000 images including current events, sports, maps, entertainment, the sciences, and historical events.
Evans Digital Edition (UC access only)
Connect
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions to foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. Coverage: 1639 - 1800.
FirstGov - State Photo Galleries
This site lists links to the State Photo Galleries.
FreeFoto.Com
FreeFoto.com includes over 58,000 images. The comprehensive site features 50 main sections with over 1600 sub-headings.
Fotosearch Stock Photography
Thousand of stock photos, video clips, and audio clips.
Galaxy of Images
Images from books in the Smithsonian Institutions Libraries. Wonderful furniture illustrations, botanical prints, and animal illustrations.
HarpWeek (UC access only) Connect
Full text and images of Harper's Weekly Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1871). User may have to click on "I Accept" on Web Access Agreement in order to access information.
Images from the History of Medicine
This site from the National Institutes of Health: National Library of Medicine offers a database of images dedicated to the history of medicine.
Institute of Museum and Library Services Digital Collections and Content
Provides links to many image resources in the arts, social studies, sciences, etc.
Internet Archive-Moving Image Archive
This site offers free access to nearly 3,000 films and animations.
Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media Home Page
This site offers numerous clip art, animation, sound, and photo files in a wide variety of subject matter.
Music-Related Graphic Images
This site provides musically themed buttons, backgrounds, rules, images, and icons.
The Museum of Online Museums
An eclectic collection of links to museums, galleries, and exhibitions. Links to sites with images of cereal boxes, manhole covers, candy cigarette boxes, etc.
NARA ARC-Archival Research Catalog
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) holdings in the Washington, D.C. area of Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. The site allows you to perform a search using keyword, digitized image, location, organization, person, or topic.
New York Public Library
The NYPL Digital Gallery offers access to over 415,000 images from the New York Public Library’s collections of primary sources and rare printed materials. Images include illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Included materials are representative of the Research Libraries’ wide-ranging collections in the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
University of Michigan Image Source
Collection of University of Michigan databases, some of which are accessible to the public. Each collection has its own link and searches can be made within a collection.
The information provided is as accurate as possible. However, some copyright agreements limit use of images for personal, educational, and/or research purposes. It is your responsibility to review the copyright information on each site to ensure that you are abiding by the law. For copyright information go to Digital Images and Copyright.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
9,000 advertising images from Duke University. Concerning copyright, their site states: "The images and texts on this web site have been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. For these purposes you may reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) materials from this web site without prior permission, on the condition that you provide proper attribution of the source in all copies."
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
A collection of American buildings and landscapes including photographs, plans, maps, models, and gardens. Concerning copyright, their site states: "We encourage use of these images under the fair use clause of the 1976
Copyright Act . All images in this collection may be used for educational and scholarly purposes, but we do ask that a credit line be included with each image used (see below). Whenever possible, the Frances Loeb Library
has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the lantern slide. This information is provided as a service to aid patrons in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the patron."
World Atlas
Concerning copyright, their site states: "Any clip art featured on the pages linked below may be used (without) our written approval on any web site, intranet site or within a document or publication. If you use the clip art we ask for, and would appreciate, a link (of any kind) back to Graphic Maps or WorldAtlas.com."
Air Force Link
Supplies illustrations and photographs of the United States Air Force. These images include historical photographs, images of memorials, operations, and people.
American Memory: Selected Civil War Photographs
This Library of Congress Web site offers over 1,100 Civil War photographs, many of which were either created or supervised by Mathew Brady. Concerning copyright, their site states: "There are no known restrictions on these photographs. However, approximately fifty of the portraits of soldiers (mostly enlisted men) are copies of photographs that the Library of Congress borrowed during the 1950s and early 1960s. (The catalog records for these images contain a note field that begins "Copy photo made by LC . . . ."). After copying, the original photographs were returned to their owners but the Library did not retain a record of the owner's names and addresses. The Library is not aware of any restrictions on these images, but is anxious to hear from individuals or institutions that own the original photographs or who know of their history."
ARS Image Gallery
The Agricultural Research Service of the USDA image gallery includes beautiful color images of animals, crops, fruits and vegetables, insects, and various other topics.
ASE Image Gallery
The site for the Association for Science Education offers photographs and clip art pertaining to science. These images are arranged within subjects including Dinosaurs, Energy, Space, etc.
DLS (Digital Library System)
This portal of the US Fish and Wildlife Service offers access to the Alaska Image Library (see below), the Alaska Historical Image Library, Mountain-Prairie, NCTC Image Library, Southeast Image Library, Pacific Image Library, and the Washington D.C. Image Library.
DLS Alaska Image Library
The Alaska Image Library offers collection that consists of plants, birds, animals, places, and people of the Alaska Refuge system.
Gimp-Savvy.com
Gimp-Savvy.com gives access to over 27,000 free photos and images. "The images and photos found in this archive come from three main sources: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Each of these sites clearly state that their photos and images are in the public domain and give the conditions for their use. Please read their statements."
Graphics for Teachers
This site provides links for other sites offering backgrounds, borders, border sets, clip art, and animations.
Images of American Political History
This site provides images that may be useful in relating information about American Political History. The images include maps, photographs, etchings, engravings, and caricatures.
Naval Historical Center Online Library
This site is the index to Naval and maritime images. Images can be searched through pre-set subjects. "To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission."
USDA Online Photo Center
The USDA Online Photo Center site offers a wide variety of photographic images on subjects from agriculture to wildfires.
Pics4Learning: Copyright-friendly Images for Education
This site offers images on a wide variety of topics including American Sign Language, Animals, Maps, Weather, the Ocean, and Natural Disasters. "The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection. The images may not be sold as an image collection or partial image collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities."
stock.xchng
This site offers access to over 97,500 stock images pertaining to a wide variety of subject matter.
Free Images and Stock Photography
This site affords access to over 2,500 stock photos.