O'Malley Library: Finding Images: Finding Images

Fine Arts Images

Europeana
A collection of photographs of artifacts and images from Europe's museums. Use the drop-down menu of "Can I use this?" to select Yes to find images in the public domain
Met Museum Collections
Search images of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
VADS
Art and Design images from UK collections free for educational use.

New York Public Library Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) This link opens in a new window
DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.

Ad * Access
Collection by Duke University of past advertisements throughout history
Library of Congress - Photo, Print, Drawings
A searchable resource of the digitized images in the Library of Congress's collections
Look and Learn History Images
An online history images archive. Use "Free first" as a sorting method to see only the public domain images
National Archives - Digital Photography Collections
Links to different collections containing photographs within the National Archives
National Library of Medicine - Image Gallery
A collection of public domain historical images related to medical history from the library's collection
Newspaper Navigator
A site from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America project that lets you search through newspaper photographs for certain keywords. You can narrow it down to a certain date range from 1900-1963 and all images are in the public domain.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center
Search the image collections of the Smithsonian Institute's different museums

Creative Commons Search
Search a Creative Commons database for reusable images
Flickr Commons
Cultural heritage institutions and others have posted images from their collections and licensed them as creative commons.
Pixabay
Over 1.2 million images free to use under the Creative Commons Zero license
Smithsonian Open Access
The openly available for use, reuse and remix images and templates from the Smithsonian's vast collection.
Unsplash
A database of Creative Commons/Royalty Free Stock Images
Wikimedia Commons
Creative commons images, videos, and other media used in Wikipedia

Reverse Image Search
If you've found a lower-resolution version of a photo or art piece and want to track down the original version, you can use Google Reverse Image Search