Finding Open Images
You can find openly licensed (Creative Commons or public domain) images from a variety of sources. These images can be freely and legally used in presentations, reports, papers, and media projects. Here are some of our favorites
- AllForEd
- free library of photos celebrating students—and the educators who teach them—in seven schools across the United States.
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- stock photos featuring plus-size people
- CC Search (Creative Commons)
- images, music and videos that have been given Creative Commons licensing
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- a large archive of photos, vessels, coins and much more
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- this blog contains a list of other sites that have open media content
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- free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 12 countries around the world
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- images of objects and paintings from the museum
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Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Explore 936,560 items digitized from The New York Public Library‘s collections.
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Icons and Photos For Everything
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- Over 2.8 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music
- Smithsonian Open Access
- access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections
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Unsplash has over a million free high-resolution photos.
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- a collection of 92,703,459 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Over 121,000 maps and related images
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