LibGuides: Art: 60492: Visual Arts Research : Finding Images &amp; Media

More about Images

Using & Citing Images (a resource guide)

Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online (The Public Domain Review)

Creative Commons

About the Licenses

Internet Archive

Check out these individual collections:

The Prelinger Archives
A rabbit hole of thousands of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films
Old Time Radio
NASA Images
USGS Maps
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Images & texts from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries

Image Resources (CMU Libraries)

AP Images Collection This link opens in a new window
The Associated Press (AP) Images Collection™ captures the greatest events in history and brings them to life through photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Over two million high-quality images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
Over two million digital images of art, history, and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.

Audio Resources

Digital Collections from Libraries

Not all images in these collections are in the public domain.

Check licenses!

See NYPL Public Domain Picks

Other Digital Collections

Open images and video from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Check out the cat videos! Including cats playing chess and cat in a basket...

Art, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. See Free to Use Images.

The Public Domain Project from POND5 features thousands of historic media files available including film, images, audio and 3D models.