Government and Public Domain Images

Wikimedia Commons

Flickr: The Commons

Google Advanced Image Search (select free to use or share under usage rights)

Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr

American Memory Collection

Archive.org

National Gallery: NGA Images

NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)

Flickr: The British Library’s Photostream

Old Pictures (mostly government photos 1850s to 1940s)

USA.gov Photos & Images

Media History Digital Library

National Archives Presidential Librariesand Museums

US History Image Bank

Picturing the Century

Images of American Political History

University of Texas’s Portrait Gallery

NYPL Digital Gallery (Some of the images in the Digital Gallery may be subject to third party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity)

Smithsonian Galaxy of Images

Smithsonian Flickr PhotoStream

Presidential Libraries

EASE History (includes many Federal gov’t images)

Internet Archive Moving Images

National Parks Service Imagebase

American Memory Timeline for Teachers

New York Public Library Image Archives

Artifact and Analysis (Smithsonian)

Copyright-friendly images and sound Pathfinder