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Public Domain Graphics

Need graphics for your website, ebook or other digital products. There are a number of very good, low cost royalty photo and graphic sites online where you can purchase quality images for a few dollars each. There are also thousands of low quality sites to filter through to find them.

An alternative is to search out graphics available under public domain license.

Historical images

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://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ - public domain images of American Political History
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://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's online collection of digital images. Search by keyword.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org New York Public Library. Over 500,000 images scanned from books, manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, etc. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.
http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Images scanned from old books. Searchable by keywords.
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.

Art

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters many in the public domain, check catalogue for dates of works and artists.

Visual arts

Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (US published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.

Music

http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/

Books

Scanned in books & historical documents. Keyword searchable. Great source for diagrams/illustrations.

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.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags&area=flags in SVG format.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook

General

Public Domain Pictures - Free high quality public domain pictures for commercial and personal use - Sorted in categories. Search by keywords. Todays photographs, no old scanned pictures or low resolution images
Copyright free, high-quality scans from pre-1920 books - Categorized and searchable. Click "free images" on the left navigation.
Public Domain Photos - Free for commercial redistribution and alteration - Moka Gallery - All photo from this site is 100% free for use!
Scans of art from pre-1922 books and various photos, free for any use
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
http://www.wpclipart.com - Public Domain clipart optimized for use in word processors. Browsable via site treeview and thumbnail pages. Complete collection also downloadable from ibiblio.
http://www.burningwell.org - Repository of public domain photos.
http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/ - Project Gutenberg: 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands of PD images available.
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ - GIMP Archive: 32,000+ Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
http://www.openclipart.org/ - 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.clker.com/ - Easy to search public domain images, directly usable in openoffice.org
http://opendomain.blogspot.com/ - public domain images from various sources in one-a-day blog format.
http://pdphoto.org/ - Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.
http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/ - Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm - Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images.
http://www.freephotos.se/ - Small personal photographic collection dedicated to the public domain.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/ Images of pages of a 1914 book of puzzles
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/sacredspiral/ - Public Domain Pagan Clipart
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html - This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the time.
http://publicdomain.photopress-spain.com/ - Public Domain Spain Photo Gallery. Photo archive containing a collection of free, public domain images and photos of Spain.
http://www.PublicDomainFootage.com/ - Public domain archival stock footage and newsreels.
http://www.public-domain-photos.com - Large collection of free stock photos
http://www.vintagepixels.com/ - Large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images. People can also share their archived photos.
http://www.pdclipart.org - 25,000+ Public Domain Clip Art (great for printing). Categorized & searchable.

Computer Generated Images

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl US Census Bureau TIGER Mapping service
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ - Automatic public domain map generating program
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html - Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883

U.S. Government Sites

http://home.nps.gov/applications/hafe/hfc/npsphoto.cfm - National Park Service
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - A portal to US Government images and photos. "Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain"
http://memory.loc.gov/ - U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
http://pictures.fws.gov/ - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pictures
http://images.fws.gov/ - More U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ - NOAA Photo Library
http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
http://photolibrary.usap.gov/ - Antarctic Photo Library
http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opchomea.htm - USDA Online Photography Center
http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/ - USDA Agriculture Research Service Image gallery
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=458&q=162298 Pennsylvania Game Commission Public Photo Gallery (Birds and Mammals)
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ - DoD Defense Visual Information Center (High-resolution US military imagery; use with {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}} license template.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ - Current DoD publicly released image
http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ -Great resource for cancer-specific images.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html - See Rights usage for each page.
http://nationalatlas.gov -.GIF image maps, such as Congressional District maps, all in the public domain.
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/photos/ - U.S. Census Bureau Photo Services - Pd but a photo credit is requested.
http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov - photographs of representatives and senators.

Search Engines

PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Search by rights! [ credit, ask permission or not].
Spffy.com - one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed.