AstrologyNotes:PublicDomain

There are a number of sources of public domain images on the Web.

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Contents 1 Objects 1.1 Aeroplanes 1.2 Archeological finds 1.3 Christianity related 1.4 Food 1.5 Furniture 1.6 Satellites 1.7 Ships 1.8 Subway 1.9 Trains 1.10 Miscellaneus Mechanical objects 2 Animals and plants 2.1 Animals 2.1.1 Birds 2.1.2 Fish 2.1.3 Insects 2.2 Plants 2.2.1 Sea/Snow 2.2.2 Country 2.2.3 Flowers/Fruits/Vegetables 2.2.4 Herbs 3 Nature/Science 3.1 Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc) 3.2 Medicine 3.3 Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight 3.4 Underwater 3.5 US National Parks 3.6 Weather 4 History 4.1 Historical images 4.2 Specific periods 4.3 People 4.4 Movies 5 Locations 5.1 Cities 5.2 Machine-readable raw map data 5.3 Maps 5.4 Antarctic 5.5 Bangladesh 5.6 Botswana 5.7 Canada 5.8 Cuba 5.9 Czech Republic 5.10 Egypt 5.11 Finland 5.12 France 5.13 Germany 5.14 Ghana 5.15 India 5.16 Iran 5.17 Ireland 5.18 Israel 5.19 Italy 5.20 Japan 5.21 Mexico 5.22 Norway 5.23 Pakistan 5.24 Panama 5.25 South Africa 5.26 Spain 5.27 Switzerland 5.28 United Kingdom 5.29 USA 5.29.1 Detroit 5.29.2 New York 5.29.3 Vermont 5.29.4 Washington 5.30 Uzbekistan 5.31 Vietnam 5.32 West Indies 5.33 Zambia 5.34 Zimbabwe 5.35 Various 6 Art 6.1 Visual arts 6.2 Music 7 Logos and flags 8 Sports 9 U.S. postage stamps 10 General collections 11 Miscellaneous 12 Computer-generated public domain images 13 Public domain image meta-resources 14 Other 15 References

Objects

Aeroplanes

• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/flight/index.html
• http://www.nellis.af.mil/gallery/index.htm
• NASA Image Exchange
• http://www.news.navy.mil/view_galleries.asp US Navy NewsStand Photo Galleries

Archeological finds

• http://www.cts.edu/ImageLibrary/imagelibrary.cfm

Christianity related

• http://www.thebiblerevival.com/clipart.htm

Food

• http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opclibra.htm

• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-food.htm

• http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/category_list.asp?cat=major&id=2

Furniture

• http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/2/5/12254/12254-h/12254-h.htm

Satellites

• NASA Image Exchange
• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/space/index.html

Ships

• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ships/index.html
• http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm US navy archive of public domain ship photos
• http://www.news.navy.mil/view_galleries.asp US Navy NewsStand Photo Galleries
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-boat.htm Free Mediterranean ship photos

Subway

• http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/category_list.asp?cat=sub&id=41

Trains

• http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/category_list.asp?cat=sub&id=49 (Interior Objects)

Miscellaneus Mechanical objects

• Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, from 1876.
• The Industrial Art gallery. Those images first published before 1923 are in the public domain.
• MaritimeDigital Archive Most images are under GNU Free Documentation License.

Animals and plants

Animals

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
• http://pdphoto.org/
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-animal.htm
• http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opclibra.htm
• http://images.fws.gov/
• http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/images/
• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html
• http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/default.asp Public Health Image Library from CDC: photos of animals, protists, bacteria, viruses related to public health. Searchable by category or keyword

Birds

• 1905 paintings http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/regengl.htm.
• Online copy of Fifty Birds of Town and City, published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Fish

• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/index.html
• http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/natural_history.html (Only non-commercial reproduction is allowed!)
• http://images.fws.gov/
• http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/photos.html lineart drawings of a bunch of fish; also collections of photos of historical fisheries, research activities and NOAA

Insects

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
• http://www.insectimages.org/ (Only non-commercial reproduction is allowed!)
• http://gillesgonthier.com/Photos/insecta.html (Creative Commons Attribution License)
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-insect.htm Royalty free images

Plants

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
• http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/images/
• http://runeberg.org/nordflor/inneh.html
• http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/index.html
• University of Leuven, Belgium - Images free to use for non-commercial use.
• Biolib A collection of 68395 scanned pages from 290 books, some of them with expired copyrights.
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-plant.htm for private or commercial use

Sea/Snow

• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-sea.htm Sea
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-snow.htm Snow

Country

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html Crops
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-country.htm Country

Flowers/Fruits/Vegetables

• http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/fruit.htm
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-flower.htm
• http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/category_list.asp?cat=sub&id=17 (Vegetables)

Herbs

• http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/photos.htm

Nature/Science

Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc)

• http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/land.htm Earth from Space
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-mountain.htm Mountains images
• http://libraryphoto.er.usgs.gov/ USGS Earth Science Photo Library Archive
• http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ NASA's Visible Earth
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/desert.htm Desert images
• http://www.gliff.org/usgs/ US Geological Survey's Digital Data Series 21
• http://www.geobserver.com Earth @ 43200x21600 Pixel (Public Domain)

Medicine

• http://www.autopsydb.org/iadbimag.htm Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR) Image Archive
• http://www.sci7.com/cms/15/free-scientific-images.html Free scientific images from Sci7 Ltd
• http://www.autopsydb.org/abpath.htm Public domain cytology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Borkowski.
• http://www.autopsydb.org/dermpath.htm Public domain dermatopathology photomicrographs, courtesy of Dr. Grace F. Kao.
• http://art-bin.com/art/medhistorypix/omedicalimages.html Historical anatomical drawings
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/home.html Historical Anatomies on the Web - historical anatomical drawings (courtesy National Institutes of Health)
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html Dream Anatomy gallery
• http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/default.asp Public Health Image Library from CDC: photos of numerous diseases, including microscopic material; pathogens and vectors; medical techniques and equipment. Searchable by category or keyword
• http://www.bartleby.com/107 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body contains various illustrations.

Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight

• http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/ STScI Publication of public domain photography taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
• http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ Great Images in NASA library of images.
• http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/picturegallery/index.shtml Gallery for the Spitzer Space Telescope
• http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html
• http://nix.nasa.gov/ NIX: NASA Image eXchange
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ NASA planetary image catalog
• http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ NASA image gallery
• http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ Johnson Space Center digital image collection
• http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html Public domain works done for NASA by Don Davis: high-resolution scans of space-related paintings.
• http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/index.html 2MASS Atlas Image Gallery (public domain images, acknowledgment required)

Underwater

• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/index.html
• Ocean Explorer Gallery - pictures, movies, and slideshows from NOAA expeditions

US National Parks

• http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html National Park Service Digital Image Index
• http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/cfprojects/photodb/Photo_search.cfm
• http://www.nps.gov/bibe/photogallery/photogallery.htm

Weather

• http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/atmo.htm
• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/
• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/index.html
• http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/torscans.htm NOAA pictures of tornadoes

History

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.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at http://www.exclassics.com
• http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ Collection images scanned from various books published before 1923 and thus in the public domain.
• http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.

Specific periods

• World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies
• Photos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
• The Heritage of the Great War has several colour pictures from World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
• World's Armed Forces Forum (gallery for images taken from the French Ministry of Culture's website) hosts more colour images of World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
• http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in america 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine

People

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/index.html - A selection of portraits of historical figures
• http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ - A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History
• http://www.sonoma.edu/psychology/psychart.htm Public domain drawings of famous psychologists. Some better than others.
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html - more than 700 Daguerreotypes 1839 - 1864 (mostly portraits)
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html Creative Americans 1932 - 1964, photographs by Carl Van Vechten; 1400 public domain portrait photos
• http://www.marxists.org/glossary/ modern philosophers' photographs.There are also many photographs other than Marxists.
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print Portraits of famous people, Library of Congress (not all public domain; remember, anything prior to 1923 is, and post-1922 images on the site that are copyright free are indicated)
• http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/photos/index.gb.html - portraits of many current heads of state and political figures. Images are free usable but should be credited to "Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Photographic Service"
• http://www.radiobras.gov.br/ (click "Fotografias" for today's) - Agência Brasil makes news photos available free of charge. List credit as "Photographer's_Name/ABr". Requires log-in, hard to navigate, but plenty of quality pics.
• http://www.generalsandbrevets.com - portraits of all the generals (+1,000) of the American Civil War.
• http://www.noelcollection.org/noel/noelimag.html - Noel Collection Image Bank asks for a backlink and non-commercial use but almost all are pre-1923 and so PD

Movies

• http://www.archive.org/movies/ - historical movies. (Check rights before using!)

Locations

Cities

• http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Machine-readable raw map data

• CIA World Data Bank II: available from http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/ and from http://www.246.dk/ciaworld.html

Maps

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection over 11,000 ultra-high quality maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Highly recommended.
• Planiglobe online map creation Map generator with world coverage. Customized maps in Postscript and Illustrator versions (vector format) can be downloaded. Locations and tracks can be added to a map.
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Library of Congress digital map archive 1500-2002 (some maps under copyright)
• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/ U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration maps of the National Highway System (NHS)
• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html PCL Map Collection
• http://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ Automatic public domain map generating program
• http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/ Public domain map generator
• http://maps.mygeo.info Collection of CIA World Factbook maps since 1997; all in public domain

Antarctic

• http://photolibrary.usap.gov

Bangladesh

• http://bdesh.info/photos

Botswana

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Canada

• http://www.imagescanada.ca Check rights!
• http://www.archives.ca
• http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/quebec/ Le Québec en images

Cuba

Czech Republic

• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/Prague.htm Prague

Egypt

• http://www.cts.edu/ImageLibrary/Egypt.cfm

Finland

• http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/memory/helmie.html

France

• http://www.fauvet.net/index.php?page=7&fond=FFFFFF&bord=000000&titre=Photo&principal=photo/index.php
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-Paris.htm

Germany

http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/ (Contributions accepted)

(contributed by Art Lader)

Ghana

• http://www.cts.edu/FacHomePages/imagelibrary/ghana.htm

India

• http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/freegraphics.html - A non-profit site about India
• http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.

Iran

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse99/iranimages.html

Ireland

• http://pdphoto.org/

Israel

• http://www.cts.edu/FacHomePages/imagelibrary/Isreal_slides.htm

Italy

• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/3-Liguria.htm Liguria
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-Genoa.htm Genoa
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-Tuscany.htm Tuscany

Japan

• Tokyo
• http://www.gnuart.net/data/photo/ACBM/Tokyo/index.html
• the private PUBLIC DOMAIN DATA LIBRARY

Mexico

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/detrSubjects29.html

Norway

• http://cefirelda.infoville.net/album/seccion.asp?idseccion=5213

Pakistan

• http://www.tourism.gov.pk/img_gallery.html

Panama

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

South Africa

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Spain

• http://cefirelda.infoville.net/album/index.asp

Switzerland

• http://www.picswiss.ch/ (in German) - the photographer has given explicit permission to GFDL the online images, which are lower-res than the ones he sells

United Kingdom

• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cookian/html/imagelib.html (mostly Arundel Castle)
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/England.htm for private or commercial use

USA

• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present - from the Library of Congress.

Detroit

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

New York

• http://www.empirestateroads.com/maps/

Vermont

• http://www.vtweb.com/foliage/thumbs00.shtml

Washington

• http://content.lib.washington.edu/pacificsearch.html (check to see if indiv. collections are public domain)

Uzbekistan

• http://www.uzland.uz/ "Copying, reproduction and use of any materials from UzLand are allowed with attribution to this site."

Vietnam

• http://cefirelda.infoville.net/album/noticia.asp?idnoticia=29470

West Indies

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

Zambia

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Zimbabwe

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/africaimages.html

Various

• PhoozWikiA Wiki for Photographers to document local views/locations.
• http://pdfoto.com - Various locations
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-Europe.htm - Europe

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.
• http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.
• http://www.pdfoto.com - Free for commercial use. 3D and Digital Art as well as public domain photos. All images are organized by catagory.

Visual arts

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

• The National Gallery, London(requires Java plugin for large versions)
• The Louvre
• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
• http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/
• http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
• http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/
• Foto Search: Royalty Free Photo Library

Music

• http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/

Logos and flags

• http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags&area=flags 376 (at last count) public-domain flags (many national, some regional) in SVG format. Can be easily rasterized into high-quality PNGs.
• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ CIA World Factbook
• http://www.brandsoftheworld.com Logotypes of brands from all over the world - all downloadable as EPSs.

Sports

• http://www.igs.net/~bmitchell/Tennis/tennis.htm - Photo gallery of women's tennis players. Photos taken by bmitchell are specially marked and free to be used with credit and link back to the site. (Photo's offline since october 2004).
• http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/ (see http://www.stervanwalcheren.nl/2003/fotos03.php for the photos) - Site of a Dutch ladies' cycling tournament. All pictures copyright Frans Meijer, but may be copied provided the source is acknowledged.

U.S. postage stamps

While not technically public domain after 1978 (all stamps before that are in the public domain) the USPS has a liberal licensing policy regarding stamps. The United States Postal Service retains copyright to stamps under Title 17 of the United States Code. The Domestic Mail Manual, G013 Trademarks and Copyrights, states that while "The USPS secures copyrights in its philatelic designs and certain publications. The designs of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, stamped cards, aerogrammes, souvenir cards, and other philatelic items issued on or after January 1, 1978, are copyrighted by the USPS under title 17 USC." The USPS licenses certain copyrighted material to the public, however, thus:

The use of illustrations of the designs covered by such copyrights is permitted:

a. In editorial matter in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, philatelic catalogs, and philatelic albums.

For the full document, see: http://pe.usps.gov/text/DMM/g013.htm.

An encyclopedia is considered a book, therefore, AstrologyNotes, an on-line encyclopedia, could be considered within this permitted use. However AstrologyNotes is licensed under the GFDL and as such "permitted use" for AstrologyNotes alone is not enough. It should also be "permitted use" for all derivative works.

General collections

• http://yotophoto.com - Free image search engine including public domain, Creative Commons and GFDL images. Currently indexing over 50,000 free images.
• http://www.morguefile.com - Over 58,000 free high resolution reference photos. All images are organized by category and keyword search and are free for commercial use. No registration needed.
• http://www.burningwell.org - Repository of public domain (free for any use) photos.
• http://cefirelda.infoville.net/album/index.asp - Collection of free photos. 17,000 Photos of over 30 countries and several categories for educational purposes. (Website in Spanish)
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/ - Collection of free stock photos of nature and European cities.
• 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 upon thousands of PD images to be had, with a wee bit of legwork and a modicum of serendipity.
• http://gallica.bnf.fr/ - Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). (website is in French)
• http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm - Collection of public domain photos organized by category.
• http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ - GIMP Archive: 32,000 Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
• http://www.gnuart.net - GNU Art.
• http://www.openclipart.org/ - This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. The clip art is public domain and stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
• openphoto.net - http://www.openphoto.net/ -- Creative Commons] not public domain licensed.
• http://www.pdfoto.com/ - Public Domain photography and art website. Small but growing fast with over 25,000 images to be uploaded. All images are organized by category and free for commercial use.
• http://www.pixeleye.com Pixeleye.com - Pictures from the Montafon Valley. Collection of public domain photos organized by category.
• http://www.pdimages.com/web6.htm - Random assortment of Public Domain images.
• 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.

If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI with http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/

• http://www.pixelquelle.de - 6,700 pictures in various categories. -- License requires attribution and forbids use for certain cases, e.g. for image catalogs, therefor non-GFDL
• http://www.picturestation.net - Picturestation: over 4,000 free photos
• http://www.lamediterrania.org - La Mediterrania: Public database of photos from various categories. Only personal use.
• http://www.sxc.hu/ - Huge selection of user-contributed photos. Read the license for each picture before use, all are subject to the SXC terms of use.
• http://www.openphoto.tk/ - Open Photography: Growing collection of public domain photos and articles.
• http://www.freephotostation.com/ - Free abstract, architecture, computer, technology, fruits, food, nature and objects stock photos.

Miscellaneous

• http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/ Images of pages of a 1914 book of puzzles
• http://flag.blackened.net/anarpics/ - Images of anarchists and anarchist symbols
• http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/sacredspiral/ - Public Domain Pagan Clipart
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-object.htm - Image collection of objects
• http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html - fashion plate archive
• http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/ - Thousands of photographs from as early as 1860 taken by employees of the Union Pacific railroad
• http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ - John Leech Sketch archives from Punch magazine. The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-fireworks.htm - Fireworks photos from Italy

Computer-generated public domain images

• http://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ - Automatic public domain map generating program
• http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html - another one
• http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cin/index-e.html - Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883 Note: should be cited in the Images page as: "[list full source]. Reproduced from the National Library of Canada's website (www.nlc-bnc.ca)."

Public domain image meta-resources

• http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/imagcoll.html
• http://www.washjeff.edu/german/imagemining/ (Image resources by category for German speaking world)
• http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
• http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/ (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)

Dover Publications has many, many books of copyright-free illustrations. Search on "copyright-free", "clip art" or "Pictorial Archive". These are hard copy and would have to be scanned, but they cover everything. You have to buy the books or borrow them from the library; the art is free. Here are just a few examples:

• Plants: 2,400 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Vegetables
• Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
• Ready-to-Use Illustrations of World-Famous Places: 109 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Pets: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Appliances and Electronics: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Portraits of Famous People: 121 Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Mammals Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Marine Animals: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Authentic Civil War Illustrations: 245 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Bird Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Flower Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Endangered Animals Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Ready-to-Use Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations: 294 Different Copyright-Free Designs
• Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book 46 accurate illustrations copyright-free.

• Weapons and Armor, 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, more
• Transportation, 525 copyright-free illustrations include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many other vehicles.

Other

• http://www.firstgov.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://olpaimages.nsf.gov/index.html - The National Science Foundation Image Library: Really great resource for all sorts of science imagery. Must fill out form to download, but most images are for public use as long as attributed. You can use {{NSFIL}} for copyright tagging (don't forget attribution).
• 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/ - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
• http://photolibrary.usap.gov/ - Antarctic Photo Library

Other sites:

• http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm
• http://images.google.com - search for images on government sites; this still requires one to check the copyright status of each image.
• Bhutan News Online
• The Kingdom of Bhutan (This site says "United States and international copyrights apply." However this is incorrect.)
• An Iranian photoblog
• A collection of Iranian blogs
• Irna.com (Iran)
• Iran Newspaper
• Iran Daily
• His Magesty's Government of Nepal
• Yemen Times
• The Yemen Observer

References

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