How to Find Public Domain Resources

This page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.

Photostreams, albums, and galleries of historical photographs from the LoC collection.

"Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the The Met collection, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction."

Search for image, video, or audio public domain resources.

Search more than 180,000 public domain resources.

A category of images from the "New York Times"' in the Public Domain , published prior to January 1, 1923.

Search public domain images by time, style, content, type, or rights.

Search for public domain photographs from the Smithsonian.

"The vast majority of the digital images in the National Archives Catalog are in the public domain. Therefore, no written permission is required to use them. We would appreciate your crediting the National Archives and Records Administration as the original source. "

Search for public domain and CC-licensed images.

Browse millions of high-quality stock photos to create beautiful designs.

LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) is a project that contains free stock photos for private and commercial use.

Search thousands of high quality public domain images on Pexels.

Search over 1.6 million royalty free stock photos and videos.

Explore 30,000+ PNGs and download high quality transparent CC0 PNG images.

Search thousands of free photos, vectors, icons, fonts and videos.

Search thousands of free, high-resolution photos.

Search images from Wikimedia Commons, a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.