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There are a number of sources of public domain images on the Web.

The presence of a resource on this list does not guarantee that all or any of the images in it are in the public domain. You are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Misplaced Pages.

Please read the policy on image use and etiquette at: Misplaced Pages:Image use policy

Art

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters many in the public domain, check catalogue for dates of works and artists.
http://www.pdfoto.com - Free for commercial use. 3D and Digital Art as well as public domain photos. All images are organized by category.
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html - "a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries"

Visual arts

Note: Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.

The National Gallery, London(requires Java plugin for large versions)
The National Portrait Gallery, London
The Louvre
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/

Music

http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/

Logos and flags

http://www.wpclipart.com/flags/index.html 436 flags, countries listed alphabetically, also US State flags, historical and others. All in PNG format.
http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags&area=flags 376 (at last count) public-domain flags (many national, some regional) in SVG format. (Apparently no longer actively maintained, with expansion handed over to http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate/signs_and_symbols/flags )
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook

Postage stamps

Commons:Stamps/Public domain

General collections

http://www.picfindr.com/ - A "web2.0" image search that finds free-to-use-commercially photography on other websites.
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
http://www.wpclipart.com - Public Domain clipart optimized for use in word processors. Browsable via site treeview and thumbnail pages. Complete collection also downloadable from ibiblio.
http://yotophoto.com - Free image search engine including public domain, Creative Commons and GFDL images. Currently indexing over 130,000 free images.
http://www.burningwell.org - Repository of public domain photos.
http://www.osterkartenausstellung.at/ - Easter Postcards from 1898 till today from 32 states all over the world - an international exhibition.
http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/ - Project Gutenberg: 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands upon thousands of PD images to be had, with a wee bit of legwork and a modicum of serendipity.
http://backgroundsarchive.com - Thousands of public domain images organized by category, color and brightness.
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ - GIMP Archive: 32,000+ Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
http://www.openclipart.org/ - This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
http://www.pixeleye.com Pixeleye.com - Pictures from the Montafon Valley. Collection of public domain photos organized by category.
http://pdphoto.org/ - Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.
http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/ - Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm - Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images.

If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI with http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/

http://www.brazilpostcard.com.br Old Postcards from Brazil
http://www.wisegorilla.com/clipart.html - All kinds of clipart.
http://www.freephotos.se/ - Small personal photographic collection dedicated to the public domain.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/ Images of pages of a 1914 book of puzzles
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/sacredspiral/ - Public Domain Pagan Clipart
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html - fashion plate archive

http://www.ready2move.be/pics/ - Belgian nightlife
http://www.kerryonworld.com - A wide selection of quality backgrounds and wallpaper
http://publicdomain.photopress-spain.com/ - Spanish Public Domain Photo Press Gallery, Copyrights-free photo archive containing the collection of free, public domain images and photos of Spain.

Computer-generated public domain images

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl US Census Borough TIGER Mapping service
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ - Automatic public domain map generating program
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html - Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883

Public domain image meta-resources

http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/imagcoll.html
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/ (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
http://www.graphicsngraphicdesign.com/freestockphotos-graphicdesigners/
http://images.google.com - search for images on government sites; this still requires one to check the copyright status of each image.

Uncategorized links

U.S. Government sites

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - A portal to US Government images and photos. "Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain"
http://memory.loc.gov/ - U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
http://pictures.fws.gov/ - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pictures
http://images.fws.gov/ - More U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ - NOAA Photo Library
http://images.usace.army.mil/ - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
http://photolibrary.usap.gov/ - Antarctic Photo Library
http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opchomea.htm - USDA Online Photography Center
http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/ - USDA Agriculture Research Service Image gallery
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=458&q=162298 Pennsylvania Game Commission Public Photo Gallery (Birds and Mammals)
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ - DoD Defense Visual Information Center (High-resolution US military imagery; use with {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}} license template.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ - Current DoD publicly released image

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