This page contains a huge list with websites and search engines where you can find domain public images. It’s important to remember that, even if most of those pictures and photos are domain public images, you need check in loco if that image is marked really as domain public image or offer free commercial use, because some of those photos can have different licenses.
General Collections
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page
pixabay.com
publicphoto.org
pdphoto.org
www.photos-public-domain.com
www.pdpics.com
bestphotos.us
picdrome.com
www.alegriphotos.com
www.public-domain-photos.com
www.4freephotos.com
www.publicdomainfiles.com
pdposter.weebly.com
www.arspublik.com
www.republicdomain.com
www.phototeria.com
www.clker.com
opendomain.blogspot.com
www.freephotos.se
www.publicdomainfootage.com
opengalleries.org
publicdomainreview.org
freetems.net
www.publicdomainpictures.net
www.freestockphotos.biz
www.goodfreephotos.com
www.mypublicdomainpictures.com
Government resources
images.google.com/hosted/life
www.totallyfreeimages.com
www.dotgovwatch.com/?/archives/8-The-Best-Copyright-Free-Photo-Libraries.html
www.unclesamsphotos.com
uscites.gov/imagegallery
www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments
www.nps.gov/hfc/cfm/npsphoto.cfm
images.fws.gov
images.google.com/advanced_image_search?q=site:.gov&as_st=y&hl=en&safe=off
images.usace.army.mil/main.html
memory.loc.gov
nationalatlas.gov
photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/res/sites/photogallery/
photolibrary.usap.gov/
terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx
visualsonline.cancer.gov
www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/
www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/photos/
www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/
www.defenseimagery.mil/
www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/index.html
www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html
www.photolib.noaa.gov
www.senate.gov
www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_2E5?navtype=SU&navid=CSC_PHOTO_LIB
slides.afip.org
rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/
www.usuhs.mil
content.cdlib.org/search?style=oac-img;sort=title;relation=ark:/13030/kt5b69q5bc
srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm
content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html
Subject-based Collections
Art
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
siris-artinventories.si.edu
www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php
www.thefamousartists.com
Automotive
www.carsandracingstuff.com
Clip Art
www.wpclipart.com
www.openclipart.org
www.incredibleart.org/links/clipart.html
www.pdclipart.org
www.dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/
Computer-generated
woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/
www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html
PAT public domain ian.macky.net/pat/map/country.html
History
ushistoryimages.com
www.acliparthistory.com
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm
www.fromoldbooks.org
www.john-leech-archive.org.uk
beinecke.library.yale.edu
digitalgallery.nypl.org
www.oldbookillustrations.com
patsabin.com/VintagePostcards
ian.macky.net/secretmuseum
Specific periods
digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/
www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm
greatwar.nl/kleur/kleur.html
www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=211833&messageid=1088370788&lp=1088%20381193
www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/photographs.html
Literature
archive.org
openlibrary.org
books.google.com
gutenberg.org
catalog.hathitrust.org
Logos and flags
www.wpclipart.com/flags/index.html
www.openclipart.org
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Mexico
www.playadelcarmenmexico.org
Music
freepd.com
www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/
New Zealand
www.freenzphotos.com
Postage stamps
commons.wikimedia.org
Religion
www.theworkofgodschildren.org
www.coolnotions.com/PDImages/pd_StoryOfTheBible.htm
United States
Florida
www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection
www.myfloridahistory.org/fhspics
dlis.dos.state.fl.us/library/collections.cfm
Michigan
www.annarbordelivery.net/ann-arbor-photos/
Search Engines
www.archive.org/web/web.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3A.gov+OR+site%3A.mil
www.everystockphoto.com
www.picfindr.com
www.spffy.com
www.bing.com
Source: Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
This list will be updated periodically! There are too many other domain public image websites available on the web. We’ll update this list periodically, so you should bookmark this page and visit it again later.
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