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See also:

Wikipedia:Copyright Image upload page for registered users Category:Commons resources

Contents 1	Banknotes and coins 2	Geography 3	General collections 4	Documents 5	Science 6	Search Engines 7	See also Banknotes and coins http://www.currencymuseum.net - Lots of images of banknotes from all over the world, all scanned at a standard 150 dpi. Use and an appropriate tag for the country from en:Category:Currency copyright tags. http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise - A huge number of banknote images from all over the world. Use and an appropriate tag for the country from en:Category:Currency copyright tags http://worldcoingallery.com/ - permission given by mail to Wikipedia (OTRS ticket number 2006080810014758). Contains all sorts of coins images all over the world, licensed under the GFDL. Use and an appropriate tag for the country from en:Category:Currency copyright tags. Geography http://www.geograph.org.uk/ - Photographs from all over the UK, Isle of Man, and Ireland, all are licensed under CC-BY-SA-2.0. General collections Wunderstock - Searches 100,000 public domain photos and more than 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr. Includes CC0, government works, CC-BY, and CC-BY-NC works. Search filters are available. Shutterography - Free, high-quality photos for personal and commercial use. No attribution required. LibreShot.com - High-resolution and natural looking photos in Martin Vorel's free stock photo site. Website is divided into several categories including business, close up, traveling (Mongolia, Thailand, Europe), animals, plants and nature photos. All pictures are licensed under CC0 - Public domain. No need to indicate the source / No registration / For commercial use. Snappygoat.com - 13,990,108 Free Public Domain/CC0 Images from multiple sources. Single search for images from Wikipedia Commons, Pixabay, Flickr, British Library, NYPL and others. Full image downloads without login or restrictions. Includes a meme maker. Free-Images.com - Find Millions Public Domain/CC0 stock images, clip-art, historical photos and more. Excellent Search Results. Commercial use OK. No attribution required. No login required. Flickr Public Domain Search - About 6 million Public Domain images (link is to search filtered by "CC0", "No known copyright restrictions" and "U.S. Gov't Works"). Includes British Library. British Library Over a million images, taken mostly from illustrations in 17th, 18th and 19th Century books, released into the public domain, as announced on the British Library blog. Metadata about the images and the books from which they come is also available for download on Github. Avopix.com – More than 56 000 absolutely free photos under Creative Commons CC0 (Public domain) – free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required. Blogpiks Free stock images - Over 30,000 free images for private or commercial use. No attribution required. The Wonderlusters - Over 15,000 free high-resolution travel photographs under Creative Commons. Imageric.com Thousands of absolutely free photos, vectors and videos under Creative Commons CC0 (Public domain) – free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required. Rawpixel Free stock photos - Largest contributor of stock photos on the web. Inspirational + beautiful designs. Free fully licensed photos, vectors and psd mockups. PixLoger Free Stock Photos - A collection High-Quality photographs of various categories. Free to download and use for Mockups. Best for creators like YouTube, bloggers, web developers or artists. KaboompicsFree Stock Photos for personal and commercial projects. Only High-Resolution and High-Quality Images and Mockups. No attribution required. Everyday new Free Pictures. OneLeft Media A boutique media studio offering original photographic artwork for bloggers. Free high-resolution photos / No copyright restrictions / No attribution required / Commercial use allowed / 10 new images added every other week. DezinaWorld Images in both png and jpeg format. Updated very regularly. Please bookmark for best use. BusinessImagesFree 30,000 free images for any use. No attribution required. JSC Digital Images Collection NASA's Space images. Free to use. LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) High-resolution Creative Commons photos. Traveling, nature, people. Public domain. Albumarium Free high-quality Creative Commons images. Filterable for commercial/non-commercial use. Barnimages Collection of free high-resolution stock photography. Pictoscope Art and Illustrations from Historic Book Collections. Stock Photo Sharing. Free stock photos with emphasis on quality. Commercial use allowed under its Terms of Use - credit and link back to the source required. The NOAA Photo Library Photos from the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, covering a wide range of images. freestock.ca Free multipurpose stock photos with emphasis on quality. Some commercial use allowed under its Terms of Use. Bloggers welcome as long as you can credit and link back to the source. freefilehunt.com A free design search engine for free images, searchable by license type. Also includes other free files for designers such as png images, graphics, vectors, themes, fonts, and mock-ups. DrStockPhoto High-quality public domain images. Texturegen Free quality high-resolution textures. Picdrome Royalty free pictures gallery retrographik.com RetroGraphik is a Vintage Picture Resources blog that offer free and paid royalty-free quality graphics. Blog is actively updated regularly. Free Stock Photographs a collection of high-quality stock photographs under creative commons license. Alegri Photos Over 2500 creative commons free images. artvex.com - Thousands of royalty free clip art for personal and commercial use. TotallyFreeImages.com - public domain image archive FreeVintageillustrations.com Free vintage illustrations created from antique books, postcards, and misc vintage materials in the public domain. Picture Frog - free photo images for personal&commercial use Acliparthistory.com - Public Domain images of the History of the World. Also Natural History and Fancy letters suitable for school projects ImgMart Stock Images - Collections of free high-resolution stock images for personal and commercial use. 4 Free Photos - High-quality stock and public domain images, free of charge for commercial and personal use. Freerange Stock - Many thousands of free stock photos, licensed free for commercial or private use. Free Images Collection - No Copyright, High Resolution, Free Images Devostock -Free and public domain images downloads Free Stock Images - A fast growing collection of High-Resolution Images. Small sized version of all images available for free for personal and commercial use. Web Photo Mart - Free photographs and illustrations released under various free licenses. Photos8.com Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality licensed pictures for personal and commercial use. www.sunipix.com - Free photographs for personal and business use. US Library of Congress - not all images are free, but many are. Best for images whose copyright has expired, but also contains other images that were gifted by the photographer to the public domain, as well as images taken by US federal government employees (that are hence also PD). LOC's Flickr Photostream - Images with no known copyright restrictions made available on Flickr by the Library. Public Domain Images Free high resolution images in the public domain for any purpose, easy search by categories. BestPhotos.US - Only the best high-resolution public domain photos RepublicDomain.com is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Stockvault.net - Share and download free stock photos for very personal reasons and educational usage. Public domain vectors - Collection of public domain vector images. Public Domain Pictures - hi-res photos and illustrations for personal and commercial use. Resolution at least 1280 x 850 px. Word Processor Clipart - high-quality public domain images. Vectorportal - creative commons free vector images. Clker - public domain clipart images in vector and raster format. Clipartlord - extensive collection of Creative Commons and public domain clip art. Easy Stock Photos - Public domain photos, pictures, images and information organized by category in image galleries. Reusable Art Public Domain Images - An ever-growing collection of vintage drawings, illustrations and photographs from books, magazines and other printed materials. Original publication information is included with each image for copyright verification. All images meet or exceed the Berne Convention standard for a creative work to be in the public domain. Karen's Whimsy - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly. Photogen - Search and download free quality, high resolution stock photos and images, for commercial and personal use. Vacation Photos - Public domain photos of many world landmarks and travel destinations. FREEres.info - Comprehensive listing of sites offering free stock photos, as well as other free resources for designers. Shutter Glow - A collection of high resolution free photos under CC 3.0 attribution license Copyright-Free Photos - High quality free photo library for any use, provided that each photographer is contacted beforehand. (Otherwise, not GFDL compatible) HIOX India's Free Images & Icons - Free Clipart pictures, each in 48 colours. Free Digital Photos - Over 2,000 free images. GNU Art.net - GNU Art. Flickr has a special section for pictures tagged with a Creative Commons license. For example: BY and BY-SA, Search engine. Note that images with NoDerivs or NonCommercial are Non-free Creative Commons licenses and cannot be used on wikipedia. Consider using a work whose author tagged it with a license that is acceptable for use here. Examples of FLICKR free-licensed photostreams and topics (CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses) NOTE: check individual photos to confirm free license, as photographers can (& frequently do) change licenses for sets &/or individual photos Spain, Lithuania, Brazil Spain Cars, tech stuff Knitting, crafts Colombia, nature, colors Germany India, Europe Turkey New York, Hong Kong, Korea British Columbia Vintage Pixels (website down/last tweet 10/28/09) - historical, high quality, free-for-use images. People can also share their archived photos. Fotorama.no - Totally free pictures. Free for commercial and private use with attribution. People can also share their photos. Piqs.de - high quality photos licensed under the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license. Animal Photos! -- Free pictures of animals available under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. Public Domain Image Gallery (dead/domain expired on 05/28/12)- Hundreds of categorized photographs released into the public domain, updated frequently! Elftown's Reference Pictures - Elftown's Reference picture archive is targeted at painters, photo-manipulation artists and drawing-tutorial writers. Creative Commons Car Pictures -- Collection of Automobile Photographs available under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA Yestercards - a very large free database of vintage greeting cards and postcards published in the U.S. Indexed. Organized by category. Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation) - All materials (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported), see template on Wikimedia Commons and letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials. 1photos.com - Professional stock and public domain images, free for use. Free Digital Photos Royalty free stock photos for commercial or personal use. Bloggers Clipart Free clipart and stock photos for bloggers and webmasters. Open Galleries A community source of free photography, hosting several galleries with photos from all over the world. Smithsonian Image Archive 3000 Free Business Images Freetems Public domain source of photos and graphics, contributed or found out of copyright. Good Free Photos -- A free public domain image collection with a quickly growing collection of free photos. Public Domain Photos and Textures -- A growing collection of public domain photos and textures. Pickupimage.com high-quality public domain pictures. Find and share outstanding free photos. JensKCarl.com Free photos directly from the photographer Jens K. Carl, Stuttgart, Germany. Creativecommons.photos Free Photos under the Creative Commons License CC0. BestStockPhotoFree.com High-resolution Creative Commons photos. freejpg.com.ar Free High resolution Image Bank for Commercial and Editorial Use. Photostockeditor FREE HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES FOR PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL USE. NEW PICTURES ADDED WEEKLY!. Unsplash CC0, high-resolution images daily https://downloadfreesvgicons.com/ free vector icons with out the need for attribution

realgraphy.org Authentic Non-Stock Photos for Free. Forever. pixabay.com en:Pixabay: Public domain photos. StockifiedFREE CC0, high-resolutions images daily. Injurymap has free illustrations in .svg and .png format of the human anatomy. slon.pics collection completely free hi-res photos and illustrations for personal and commercial use. Free HD Wallpapers Free High Resolution Wallpapers and Photos for Personal and Commercial Use. Vector Characters - Free Vector Characters, Vector Mascots and Vector illustrations. Great assortment of business illustrations, men illustrations, women illustrations, kid illustrations and educational illustrations. [1] High-Resolution Images on Different categories Documents BNF's Gallica - Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). Science http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ -Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute. Image use policy states: "All images are in the public domain and may be used, linked, or reproduced without permission. If an image is used, credit should be given to the listed source and/or author". https://www.plos.org/publications - All content published under a CC-BY license. Some journal articles are accompanied by images that are useful for an encyclopedia. http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/ - IAN Symbol Libraries. 2500 symbols in svg, ai and png formats, and a online vector editor. Cost and royalty free. http://www.media.nih.gov/imagebank/display.aspx?ID=763 Search Engines FIST – Free Image Search Tool (by User:Magnus Manske, hosted on the Wikimedia Toolserver) Covers Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, everystockphoto and other sites. Can search whole Wikipedia categories automatically to suggest free images for each article. everystockphoto.com - Searching over 2.2 million free photos, including Wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, tagging, rating, and comments. Google Advanced Search - Under Usage Rights, select "free to use, share, or modify, even commercially." PicFindr.com - Searches hand picked Free stock photo-, public domain-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not) freefilehunt.com A free design search engine for free images, searchable by license type. Also includes other free files for designers such as png images, graphics, vectors, themes, fonts, and mock-ups. Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed. (NB - Firefox users only - website will not open with Internet Explorer) freejpg.com.ar - Spanish free photo search engine. Search by keywords and color.