Determining Fair Use of copyrighted material online can be complicated, but there are several sources of images online without copyright or licensing restrictions. Resources linked to on this page offer royalty-free images for use, but read their terms and follow any restrictions on use regarding editing/changing content, attributing content, or using content for commercial purposes.
This organization offers several alternative licenses that allow creators to share their content freely and determine how it is used. Always attribute images used through Creative Commons.
Offers access to free photographs and illustrations
Use flickr's "any license" option to search their photographs for images.
Use the Library of Congress' search engine to explore their vast photography collections.
Pexel provides access to free stock photos and videos.
Unsplash provides access to beautiful, high definition photographs.
NYPL's digital image search for public domain images.
The National Gallery of Art's online portal for open access digital images of artworks in their collection.
This linked search is pre-set to search for open content.
Search and use images from this renowned collection in Baltimore.
Search the Smithsonian's Flickr account for images from any of their museums.
Free icons are uploaded for use.
Free clipart.
