Photography 161 - The 5-Minute Photographer Presentation: Copyright-Friendly Images

Very handy tool for searching multiple image databases quickly.

In the drop-down menu for Usage Rights, choose "free to use or share."

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives." Wonderful resource for historical images.

"Find government photos and images by topic."

Contains about 75% of the Print and Photography collections at the Library of Congress.

Most of the collection can be used under fair use guidelines. However, as the LOC does not hold copyright on most of the collections, check this link for more information.

Please read terms and conditions/copyright info at this link.

"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections.

Some of the images in the Digital Gallery may be subject to third party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity. Before using any of these images please review the Library's Terms and Conditions.

"Search 1,500,000 digital assets from across Yale's collections."

"A database of 6,186,126 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute."

Organized by subject; scroll down the page to see categories.

"The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. "